Category: Hotel News
Hotel Energy Consumption Can Be Reduced Significantly
Important Energy Savings Information Shared with Hoteliers
The results are in from a first round of energy audits recently conducted on hotels in The Bahamas and Jamaica and they reveal that many hotels can save 25-30 percent of their energy costs by putting in place practical short and long-term improvements and efficiencies to their operations according to global energy efficiency experts who conducted the audits.
The audits were conducted in cooperation with the Bahamas Hotel Association (BHA) as part of a regional project supported by the Inter-American Development Bank’s Greenpyme program. The program is funded by the IDB Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) and headed by Carlos Serrano who was recently in The Bahamas for a workshop with participating hoteliers.
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Bahamas Hotels Anticipate Small Improvements
The Bahamian hotel industry is targeting “small baby steps” of 2-3 per cent monthly improvements in business levels to carry it back towards pre-recession status, Tribune Business has been told, and the sector would have been “further ahead” but for the negative impact February’s bad weather had on US airlift.
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