GSLH AWARD WINNERS 2013
In the second of Greening Sri Lanka Hotels’ annual awards ceremony, the following hotels were recognised for their achievements in the past 12 months:
Large hotels (50+ rooms) & boutique n Best Green Hotel – large: Cinnamon Lodge n Best Green Hotel – runner up: Ranweli Holiday Village n Energy Conservation Champion: Cinnamon Citadel nWater Conservation Champion: Ranweli Holiday Village nWaste Management Champion: Jetwing Vil Uyana
SME hotels (50 rooms and less) n Best Green Hotel: Hunas Falls Hotel n Best Green Hotel – runner up: Siddhalepa Ayurveda Health Resort (pictured below)
industry, to ensure that post-war operations and newly built hotels both took into account good sustainable consumption practices. It was on this platform that GSLH was able to build a strong foundation, sensitising hoteliers and helping them to embrace good environment, energy, water and waste management techniques in an analytical and holistic manner. The project was also able to create Sri
Lanka’s first benchmark study for energy and water consumption, devising performance standards to which hotels across the island can compare themselves.
Project partners
nThe Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) was the first Chamber to be established in Sri Lanka, way back in March 1839. It is the prime mover of the private sector Chamber movement in Sri Lanka, and is said to be one of the oldest in the Asian region. Over the past 150 years, CCC has played a catalytic role in the development of the business sector, identifying key issues to assist in the development of strategic plans of the private sector to meet new challenges and opportunities. With the close rapport maintained with the government sector, the CCC continued to strengthen its role as a channel between the government and the private sector. In pursuance of helping businesses move into more environmentally acceptable sustainable consumption practices, CCC was the main “mover” to conceptualise the Greening Sri Lanka Hotels project, and to spearhead the planning and implementation, taking the lead role and the key partner managing the entire project.
n Energy Conservation Champion: Orient Hotel nWater Conservation Champion: Hunas Falls Hotel nWaste Management Champion: Hunas Falls Hotel
7.9% 14.7%
REDUCTION IN WATER AND ENERGY USAGE FROM 2009 TO 2012 BY SAMPLE OF 90 HOTELS, THANKS TO GSLH
Number of hotels participating in GSLH’s seminars, workshops and audit West South Cultural
Hill
Attended awareness seminar Registered for programme Attended workshop
Had walk-through audit
28 21 28 17
63
107 93 37
70 64 30 39
38 95 49 48
Greater 5
22 43
East
45 42 18
North TOTAL coast coast Triangle Country Colombo coast coast
5 5
0
254 356 261
15 85 179
n Responsible Tourism Partnership, Sri Lanka (RTP) is a private- public multi-stakeholder partnership delivering practical sustainable tourism solutions. In its efforts in promoting responsible tourism, RTP joined hands with the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce to make Greening Sri Lanka Hotels a national strategy for the hotel sector. This has enabled substantial positive environmental impact for the
destination, most probably making it the first ever destination to have taken such action.
n The Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority (SLSEA) provides technical support in programme design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. SLSEA helps in conducting a survey to set baselines for energy, training and advisory services for energy efficiency improvement and creating an enabling environment for energy efficiency in the tourism sector.
n The Institute of Environmental Professionals Sri Lanka provides technical support for conducting baseline surveys and setting baselines for water and solid waste, training and advisory services for water efficiency improvement and solid waste management.
n The Travel Foundation, an independent UK charity that helps the outbound travel industry manage tourism more sustainably, is the European partner of the Greening Sri Lanka Hotels project. The Travel Foundation has developed a range of practical tools to facilitate environmental improvements in the tourism sector including “best practices for hotels” and has experience in implementing similar energy and water efficiency project with hotels in Cyprus. It has also produced a range of consumer materials to promote “responsible” behaviour among tourists.
18%
proportion of operational costs that goes on energy in a typical hotel (not GSLH)
4-5% 356
proportion of the national electricity demand consumed by the hotel sector in Sri Lanka
total number of hotels which registered for GSLH
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ENERGY
WATER
the megajoules of energy saved in 2012 compared to 2009, by sample of 90 hotels
51 million
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