Five-star hotels royally waste power, water, food
A stay at a five star hotel comes with all the trappings of luxury and comfort. The people behind the desk and on the hotel floor cater to your every whim, making sure your stay is a comfortable one.
But have you ever wondered what it costs the environment—to give you—the guest—a piece of the good life?
For hotels, it’s all about creating the right mood and ambiance. And a big part of it is lighting. A big hotel can use up to 15,000 lighting fixtures, 20 per cent of which are always on.
Then there's the air conditioning- to give you just the right cooling experience. Thank the massive chilling plants that manage the temperature centrally—using energy to cool even the unoccupied rooms.
Fancy a wash? What about hot water anywhere anytime in the hotel? That would be the 4-5 ton boilers heating water 24x7.
But have you ever wondered what it costs the environment—to give you—the guest—a piece of the good life?
For hotels, it’s all about creating the right mood and ambiance. And a big part of it is lighting. A big hotel can use up to 15,000 lighting fixtures, 20 per cent of which are always on.
Then there's the air conditioning- to give you just the right cooling experience. Thank the massive chilling plants that manage the temperature centrally—using energy to cool even the unoccupied rooms.
Fancy a wash? What about hot water anywhere anytime in the hotel? That would be the 4-5 ton boilers heating water 24x7.
Total Energy Consumed: Over a 1,100 kilocalories per square meter per day: a good percentage of what a big house uses.
“If you talk about the number of units being consumed of electricity, we can run atleast on a day to day basis—a 100 homes,” said Pushpinder Kumar, VP, Uppal's Orchid.
From light to liquid comfort—water is that one-point resource that's used for consumption and eye candy taps, tubs, flushes, pools, fountains.
Multiply just the domestic consumption with 500 rooms, and the total water consumed equals to 600,000 ltrs per day, which is 0.1 per cent of what a single home uses. “If you talk of water resources, we can run approximately 250 to 275 normal houses,” .
“If you talk about the number of units being consumed of electricity, we can run atleast on a day to day basis—a 100 homes,” said Pushpinder Kumar, VP, Uppal's Orchid.
From light to liquid comfort—water is that one-point resource that's used for consumption and eye candy taps, tubs, flushes, pools, fountains.
Multiply just the domestic consumption with 500 rooms, and the total water consumed equals to 600,000 ltrs per day, which is 0.1 per cent of what a single home uses. “If you talk of water resources, we can run approximately 250 to 275 normal houses,” .
Guests expect their linen to be squeaky clean- a small price for the big money they pay to sleep easy and that usually translates into washing upto 6,000 kg of linen everyday!
So total detergents, cleaning agents & chemicals consumed is anywhere close to 1,200 Kg.
Fancy a bowl of freshly cut fruit? The total food unconsumed by a hotel is 400-500 Kgs that could comfortably feed 1,200 people. So the Solid waste released usually measures not less than: 4 to 5 tons.
Tote it all and the hospitality industry counts as one of the big contributors of green house emissions
And the resource pressure is only set to increase, with the number of rooms of registered hotels expected to treble in next 6 years from 35,000 to 90,000. This is one concern the industry has to sit up and take notice of.
Luxury and service come at a premium. And today money isn’t the only price that guests seem to be paying for it.
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