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ASIA PACIFIC SUSTAINABLE HOTEL AWARDS ENTRIES OPEN
The second annual HICAP awards are open for entries for nominations Deadline for submissions 31August
Horwath HTL and Burba Hotel Network, co-hosts and organizers of the annual Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific (HICAP), have announced submissions for the 2008 Sustainable Hotel Awards are now being accepted.
The Sustainable Hotel Awards were launched at HICAP 2007 to recognize hotels (and their developers) in the Asia Pacific region demonstrating exemplary sustainable development best practices. The institution of the Awards is hoped to inspire industry wide commitment to embracing and proliferating sustainable development as standard practice in contribution to the preservation of our global and local environments and cultures.
The Awards are designed to recognize hotels (and their developers) in the Asia Pacific region demonstrating exemplary sustainable development best practices. Base criteria have been outlined for five distinct areas in which sustainable development practices can be best highlighted Worthy hotels can be nominated/entered in one or more of the five categories. A maximum of three hotels are honored each year and such hotels will not necessarily represent best practices covering all five categories each In this way, it is recognized that 100% sustainable development is still difficult to reach in any hotel and important best practices can be made in varying areas of a development and not necessarily as a complete whole.
Nominated properties will be reviewed, and the award recipients selected, by an expert judging panel comprised of the following:
• Professor Michael C. G. Davidson Director,
Centre for Tourism, Sport and Service Innovation, Griffith Business School
• Lyndall DeMarco, Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum
• James Dion, Associate Director, Center for Sustainable Destinations,
National Geographic Society
• Mark Eckstein, Managing Director, International Finance, WWF-US
• John Goldwyn, Senior Associate, WATG
• Dr. Harold Goodwin, Director, International Centre for Responsible Tourism,
Leeds Metropolitan University
• Klaus Lengefeld, Coordinator, GTZ
AWARD CATEGORIES/CRITERIA:
1. SITE SELECTION AND SUSTAINABILITY
2. ARCHITECTURAL AND PHYSICAL DESIGN
3. OPERATIONAL ASPECTS
4. LEVERAGING INFLUENCE
5. SPECIAL AWARD
Further information from: Hicapconference.com
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