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Is this the hotel room of the future?
Shaping sustainable holidays of the decade
A new report reveals that innovations in sustainability will shape our holidays. Our annual break in the sun is being redefined as holidaymakers, tour operators, hotels and resorts, all adapt and innovate to save the world’s ever dwindling resources. Sustainable holidays must represent the future of mass tourism!
Carried out for Thomson Holidays by The Future Laboratory, the Sustainable Holiday Futures report reveals that change is needed to prevent a number of bleak scenarios from becoming reality by 2030. These include the loss of world heritage sites such as Venice, Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, Machu Picchu in Peru and the Great Pyramids of Egypt, which are all threatened by the weight of visitor numbers.
Such threats have created what the authors have termed ‘last chancers’ – tourists rushing to see historic sites and remote locations such as Antarctica and the Everglades before they are destroyed by climate change and over-development.
Faced with a sobering range of drivers and consequences, the travel industry is already responding with innovative and inventive ways of turning mass tourism into part of the solution.
For its part, Thomson Holidays will become the world’s first travel company to introduce the unique Waterpebble into its hotel rooms from January 2011 – adding to the 20 major commitments to sustainability made as part of its Holidays Forever programme. The clever Waterpebble sits in a shower’s plughole and glows red when too much water is being used – it will be given to hotel guests as a gift to take home after their holiday.
As part of the report, Thomson has also unveiled its hotel room of the future, which includes a wide range of energy saving features which they predict will be commonplace in the coming years. The room includes: a water-efficient bathroom where water from the wash basin and shower is used to flush the toilet; high-efficiency windows will minimise glare and heat; re-usable water bottles filled with filtered water; low energy coved ceiling lights powered by the resort’s own wind turbines and solar panels; personalised climate control systems; heat-activated multi-touch screens to communicate information on the occupant’s energy use; and fresh fruit from the hotel’s garden and greenhouses and furniture from local craftspeople.
More information: www.holidaysforever.co.uk/thomson
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One Response to “Is this the hotel room of the future?”
ecoadmin says:
Top marks to Thompson. They have taken a very positive step in an industry which is currently under the magnifying glass!