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Thursday 10th April 2014

Thursday 10th April 2014 Going to Hotelympia? We are! Con-Serve - your Passport to Sustainability & Profit. The Awards Bell Tolls – Does It Toll for YOU? CH Members celebrate Birthdays, Awards and Openings.

65 Days to the CH Awards (13 June), 9

Days (Less than TWO weeks!) to the Entry Deadline (18 April). Sharpen everything, steady that hand and enter. Come On You Considerates! To Horse! The Considerate Hotel of the Year 2014 Awards – See below for details of one of the Award categories. This week we trumpet the Considerate Suppliers of the Year (UK, International & Food).

Considerate Hoteliers & Hotelympia Every two years Hotelympia comes to London’s Excel. During the period 28th April until 1st May the world of hospitality heads to London’s docklands and feasts their eyes on an array of new

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products, hoards of splendid exhibitors and exciting and unique attractions. That’s what we are told to expect but wait….. something is stirring, this year the voice of sense, sensibility, sociability and sustainability is there! The Considerate Hotelier’s Workshops will deliver a programme designed to give hoteliers valuable training and education in key sustainability topics. The best news of all is that for CH members it is free! Don’t waste this opportunity – there are savings to be made, planets to save and by golly, it would be good to see you! Learn from the Masters – our own Sustainability guru, Chris Burgess and our specialist partners. More information here. Are you coming?

Con-Serve has your Name on it! Last week we trumpeted the arrival of our new sustainability assessment platform which we have named Con-Serve – the name seemed a natural. This week we add some substance to the hyperbole. I am of an age when phrases like crowdsourcing, platforms, benchmarking and analytics meant A) sourcing extras for a crowd scene in a movie, B) train stations, C) carving initials on a park bench and D) I daren’t even try the last one! However, for those with younger minds and improved basic intelligence here is what ConServe will do for you In detail, Con-Serve will allow Considerate Hoteliers to: Calculate the hotel carbon footprint in line with the hotel industry HCMI methodology (energy and water consumption as well as waste production and treatment), given that ConServe has integrated all the HCMI required measurements and expanded on them. Track energy, water and waste from a number of sources (including meters and utility bills) without the need for spreadsheets. View results online, generate and export their own customisable reports and review their performance against benchmarks. Compare performance (anonymously) to similar buildings in the Considerate Hoteliers database on Con-Serve and industry standards. Demonstrate transparent monitoring and continual improvement in performance of key environmental indicators – a valuable asset in achieving industry accreditations and awards. Let hotel operators and owners see what other hotels are doing across the world, how much they are saving and what their return on investments is. Share experiences and best practices with others while http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=dde11f98e5ce03d93968ee089&id=98f9f4ab20&e=[UNIQID]

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making significant savings at the same time. Track, analyse and share information -- as the number of users grows the tool will become even more useful to everyone thanks to the community approach to saving! OK – take me to your Leader. Where do I sign? please contact Chris Burgess.

News from our Members (Also known as the Bravo Zulus) Longueville Manor Hotel and Restaurant: Bees are dying in their millions. It is an ecological crisis that is potentially a bigger threat to humanity than the current financial crisis. At Longueville they continue to help this dire situation with 24 healthy hives. Askham Hall: Huge congratulations to sister establishment the George and Dragon, who are the proud winners of the 2014 Cumbria Life Food and Drink Awards 'Dining Pub of the Year' category, following the Awards ceremony at Kendal College recently. See https://twitter.com/CumbriaLifeMag for more details of the ceremony. Wilton Court - Restaurant with rooms: Wilton Court has again been awarded 5 Gold Stars and 2 rosettes by the AA for 2014. They would like to take this opportunity to thank all their staff for the tremendous support and hard work keeping Wilton Court at the top. Wilton Court has also been shortlisted by the Forester for Restaurant of the Year in the Forest and Wye Valley. Recognising the best businesses in the Forest of Dean and Wye Valley area The Forester Business Awards 2014 has begun with a bang proving that this year's event will be bigger and better than ever before! Colton House - Green Tourism Gold: The Green Tourism Business Scheme assessor has been. Not only have Colton House retained their Gold Level Award but have increased their number of marks. This is even though GTBS have made the assessments more stringent. They have also won a second in the Best Breakfast Awards at The Taste of Staffordshire. Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London: Congratulations to The Spa at Mandarin Oriental, London, who have been awarded Best UK Luxury Hotel Spa at the World Luxury Spa Awards 2014. This is a fantastic achievement and they are understandably very proud of the whole team. Crowne Plaza London – Docklands: Happy Birthday @CPLDocklands - Today is their 11th birthday. It's amazing how time flies @RedefineBDL 07.04.14 Barnett Hill, Sundial Group are absolutely delighted that Barnett Hill has been shortlisted for 'Best Conference Venue Customer Service' http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=dde11f98e5ce03d93968ee089&id=98f9f4ab20&e=[UNIQID]

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at the 2014 Conference Awards! Cavendish London introduces menu-reading app for visually impaired - here! Palais Namaskar: Thanks the Oetker Collection very much for their birthday wishes. Sunday was a special day as they celebrated their second anniversary!

Bryn Elltyd Eco Guesthouse uses Welsh water to power cars! Husband and wife team John & Ceilia Whitehead who last year won the Considerate Small Accommodation Provider Awards unsurprisingly want to do even more. Their latest project has been to install a 3rd electric car charging point. John & Ceilia have a Solar Pv array to produce energy for the car charger but cannot get them to work at night! Whatever happened to the midnight sun? They are however very fortunate to have two commercial hydro plants within 200 metres of the guest house. All energy at Bryn Elltyd is from renewables so any daylight shortfall is brought in overnight by utilising local green renewable sources. Bring on the rain! Visit the website for more information!

House of Lords declares War on Food Waste! A lengthy report by the House of Lords has called for urgent action be taken by the EU to drastically reduced the amount of food waste created by countries within the EU.

Just take a few minutes to watch this………… Click on this link and watch a wonderful short video taken from a drone off the Baja coast, California of dolphins and whales. It will make your day!

Considerate Supplier News The 2014 Gram Green Paper is nearly ready. Read more here!

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The Considerate Hotel of the Year 2014 Awards Each week we feature a category or several and the criteria for entry. We are also contacting member hotels individually to encourage participation. This week we are homing in on three categories – Considerate UK Supplier of the Year, Considerate International Supplier of the Year, Considerate UK Local Food Supplier of the Year. Suppliers play a vital role in helping hotels and other accommodation providers in ensuring that they meet their environmental aims. This award will be presented to the supplier, nominated by a hotelier or accommodation provider, who is considered by the judges to have best met the environmental needs and ethos of the nominating accommodation business. Hoteliers and accommodation providers need to nominate the supplier they believe most embodies ecoconcerns within their products (taking account of everything from sourcing, ingredients/content, sustainability and social responsibility, to value for money and quality of service) – in short, a supplier that is a great all-rounder in these respects. The nominated supplier will be placed in one of the three categories: UK Supplier, International Supplier and UK Local Food Supplier. The category allows a hotel to enter the awards in "partnership" with a supplier who the hotelier believes "has it all"; and is dedicated, ethical, and passionate when it comes to the environment, sustainability and social responsibility. See the judging criteria and entry form for more details.

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Don’t forget to share this with your colleagues – please! John Firrell jfirrell@consideratehoteliers.com

Suppliers News Dear Suppliers, Here at Considerate Hoteliers we appreciate your support and membership and would therefore like to do our best to help promote your products and services to our Members. This year at the Hotelympia Show, Considerate Hoteliers will run a series of workshops on the following subjects: 1. Reduce food waste and save money (in association with WRAP), 2. Sustainable technology use in design and refurbishment, 3. Using technology to improve your sustainability performance, 4. Catering / kitchen equipment and behaviour energy saving advice. These workshops are tailored mainly for hoteliers, but you might find some of the topics interesting for your own company - as a Considerate Member, you can attend for free! The availability is limited - to register your attendance at them, please contact Chris Burgess. In addition: Don't forget that we can do the following things for you.. 1.Run PR and Social Media campaigns 2.Upload your case studies on our website 3.Arrange topical workshops for our members covering your area of expertise. We look forward to hearing from you! Best Regards, Giulia Bonetti members.support@consideratehoteliers.com

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