It’s time to move beyond just this one keyword and consider how travel can become a regenerative force for good, and how hotels can be places that not only respect but also actively contribute to their surroundings. From the Jamaican coast to an Alpine resort to a Tokyo neighborhood, here we highlight eight of our Member Hotels around the world that are pioneering this way of operating; that take extra steps to embody a range of ecological principles and apply the concept of circular thinking to their hospitality philosophies.
“Long as I remember, the rain’s been coming down,” the song says. The last couple of weeks of wet certainly make it feel that way.
The global media has recently observed the change of hitting a 1.5 Celsius degree rise in average temperatures in the next five years has risen to 50 percent. As many scientists have observed, once that level of warming is hit, the planet will reach a slew of tipping points. 1.5C is thus a major threshold.
Nature has been sending us ever more urgent distress signals: murderous heatwaves across the Indian subcontinent, giant sandstorms in Iraq, collapsing