Analysis and perspectives on sustainability challenges and opportunities across different industries and asset types.
Sustainable procurement for hotels starts with one uncomfortable number. About two-thirds of the emissions Marriott reported for 2023, franchised hotels included, came from its value chain (Scope 3). Its purchases of goods and services alone produced three times the emissions of its direct fuel combustion (Scope 1). Energy retrofits still matter. But every purchase order…
Biophilic hotel design applies 14 research-based patterns to connect guests with nature. Learn how they shape lobbies, rooms and spas, what the pricing data shows, and how to adapt them to tropical sites. Biophilic hotel design builds nature into a property’s light, air, materials and layout so guests leave restored. It rests on 14 patterns…
Learn how Bucuti & Tara, GoldenEye and Belmond Cap Juluca earned their reputation, and apply the same playbook to make your property a sustainable wedding venue Caribbean planners trust: measured data, local food and third-party certification. The most sustainable Caribbean wedding venues share one trait: they can prove their claims. Aruba’s Bucuti & Tara holds…
LEED certification for hotels follows one path: pick the right rating system, meet every prerequisite, earn at least 40 of 110 points and pass third-party review by Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI). For a hotel of 100+ rooms, the decisions that set your final level happen in early design. This guide goes deeper than our…
Regenerative hospitality moves hotels from reducing harm to restoring reefs, soil, and local economies. Learn the five principles, verified Caribbean cases, and three tests that separate regeneration from marketing. Sustainability asks a hotel to do less damage. Regenerative hospitality asks it to leave the reef, the town, and the workforce in better condition than it…
Learn how a 240-room Caribbean resort reached EarthCheck Gold Certification in five years. Discover the baseline, the retrofits, the payback and the mistakes worth avoiding. Transparency note: this is a composite case built from real resort projects. Figures are illustrative and reflect typical outcomes, not one audited property. Let’s start with the executive summary EarthCheck…
Learn how a sustainable beach club can protect dunes, source MSC-certified seafood, keep greywater away from the shore, and earn Blue Flag, Green Fins, or EarthCheck recognition—without lecturing guests. A sustainable beach club operates on the thinnest margin in hospitality: a strip of sand between paying guests and a living marine ecosystem. Every straw, every…
Learn how a sustainable bar cuts waste and pour cost at the same time: super-juice for citrus, right-sized ice, lighter spirit bottles, reusable service and a menu built on cross-utilization. Real tactics from Trash Tiki, Tayēr + Elementary and Re. Trash Tiki started in 2016 as an anti-waste pop-up by two Dandelyan bartenders who turned…
