Nearly 900 Americas Best Value Inn and Canadas Best Value Inn hotels in North America will be putting soap, shampoo, body lotion and other guest amenities in biodegradable packaging. It's a first for a hotel chain of this size, which is approximately 50,000 rooms total. Each year, more than 3.5 billion bottles and caps go into landfills in the U.S. alone. Many of them are those little … [Read more...]
Paris on Sale Jan. 6 to Feb. 9, 2010
Paris is wonderful any time of year, but it doesn't get much cheaper than during Les Soldes, which translates as The Sales. Each January and July, retailers liquidate the previous season’s collections offering reductions of up to 70% off what prices were just before the sales. All of Paris celebrates the city-wide after-holiday sales. From January 6-9, 2010, there are street parties with … [Read more...]
Top Green Rating for No. Carolina Hotel
How appropriate -- the hotel with the world's top green rating is in the city of Greensboro. It's the Proximity Hotel, one of the few hotels anywhere to achieve the LEED Platinum rating. Don't think you have to give up luxury to travel green -- this hotel has an AAA Four Diamond rating. Platinum and diamond -- that's a great combination. The Priximity Hotel was built to use 40% less energy … [Read more...]
First LEED Certified Silver Hotel in Colorado is in Beaver Creek
The Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa in Beaver Creek is the first hotel in Colorado to earn the important Silver status of LEED Certification. How difficult is it to get this green travel award? Only nine hotels in the U.S. have earned it, including the Westin Riverfront, which opened early in 2009. To celebrate this achievement, the resort is offering a special The Westin Riverfront Green … [Read more...]
Kimpton Hotels Partners with Nature Conservancy to Plant One Billion Trees
Stay at any of the Kimpton Hotels and help The Nature Conservancy save the rainforest, one tree at a time. That’s the goal of a new partnership between the eco-friendly hotel chain and the environmental group, which has an ambitious Plant a Billion Trees campaign to re-forest and protect 30 million acres of forest in South America. The Atlantic Forest of Brazil is one of the most threatened … [Read more...]