ALL 21 Barceló Hotels in the UK have signed up to the Hotel Carbon Index Company’s CarePAR scheme (carbon emissions per room available) following a successful trial at the Barceló Hinckley Island Hotel.
The scheme is used to calculate the carbon emissions generated by hotel guestrooms and meetings facilities and is designed to give procurement departments and travel managers a better idea of their environmental impact.
Charles Prew, CEO of Barceló UK said, “We are seeing an increase in the number of requests for information on our corporate social responsibility and environmental policies. CarePAR will help us respond to the needs of travel managers who are under pressure to measure the impact their business travellers are having on the environment. Using CarePAR means all the data is collated together in one document allowing quick analysis to be done and improvements to be made where necessary.“
The 21 Barceló UK properties – previously the Paramount group, before being taken over by the Spanish hotel chain – have some 2,800 guestrooms and over 200 meetings and conference rooms.
Thistle Hotels has also begun working with CarePAR as part of its wider corporate social responsibility policy. Energy usage across its 33 UK hotels has been tracked since September last year. The move is one component of a comprehensive £100million rebrand being overseen by the group’s managing director, Heiko Figge.
