A Green Tip brochure will be distributed to contacts in the travel trade and corporate businesses at the show, graphically displaying how everyone can make a contribution to saving the planet in their daily working and home lives.
According to General Manager of the Park Regis Kris Kin Hotel, Scott Butcher, going green for businesses is no longer a public relations exercise, but a serious commitment to sustainability that should be taken by both corporations and individuals.
“Hotels such as the Park Regis Kris Kin Hotel can play an important role in transmitting this message – to guests, to staff, to corporate and sales contacts, and even to schools and youth groups, to stress the importance of changing habits to change the future of the world,” he said.
“With potentially 20,000 exhibitors, travel trade and media visitors at Arabian Travel Market, we aim to take time out from our sales and marketing to transmit this message to all our contacts, giving them our Green Tips brochure to take away and hopefully pass on.”
Among the best practice measures suggested in the brochure are reduction of energy and water, the re-use and re-cycling of resources and changing attitudes to consumption:
• Visit parks and nature reserves
• Sow a plant to celebrate a birthday
• Sell old toys
• Donate old clothes to charity
• Cut down on buying bottled water
• Promote indoor plants in offices and homes
• Opt for online media
• Use natural light where possible
• Use b/w rather than colour printing
• Use water wisely
• Shower rather than bath
• Fix water leaks
• Wash without wasting water
• Do not dispose of oils and hazardous liquids down the drain
• Say no to plastic bags
• Say no to disposable products
• Turn down the a/c
• Switch to LED lights
• Unplug battery chargers
• Don’t leave electrical appliances on standby
• Look at eco tourism
• Pay bills online
• Drive smoothly to save fuel use
• Walk or cycle and use public transport
• Preserve nature where possible
• Download music
• Travel wisely
• Look at your carbon footprint
• Live environmentally and locally
• Live green
• Sow a plant to celebrate a birthday
• Sell old toys
• Donate old clothes to charity
• Cut down on buying bottled water
• Promote indoor plants in offices and homes
• Opt for online media
• Use natural light where possible
• Use b/w rather than colour printing
• Use water wisely
• Shower rather than bath
• Fix water leaks
• Wash without wasting water
• Do not dispose of oils and hazardous liquids down the drain
• Say no to plastic bags
• Say no to disposable products
• Turn down the a/c
• Switch to LED lights
• Unplug battery chargers
• Don’t leave electrical appliances on standby
• Look at eco tourism
• Pay bills online
• Drive smoothly to save fuel use
• Walk or cycle and use public transport
• Preserve nature where possible
• Download music
• Travel wisely
• Look at your carbon footprint
• Live environmentally and locally
• Live green
