Make way for the future? InterContinental’s Innovation Hotel
Here’s another one for the green-travel files. InterContinental Hotels Group, which owns nearly 4,000 hotels internationally from Bangkok, Thailand, to San Francisco, has announced its latest creation, but you can’t place it on a map just yet. Innovation Hotel, a concept open for tours on the company’s website, is a hotel of the future and it showcases ways in which the company plans on moving toward sustainability in its properties.
Some of the features you’ll read about as you browse online through the rooms: rooftop solar panels, recycled furnishings, a rainwater harvesting system (pictured, in part), low-emission paint and high-efficiency toilets.
A company news release says the features of the Innovative Hotel “could be earmarked as standard across all IHG brands within the next few years.”
Have anything to say about all of this? Let IHG know, and perhaps you can help shape the greening of this hotel giant. On the Web tour, a summary about each feature is available; then you can rate the feature on a scale of 1 to 5 and submit comments.
Did you “tour” the facilities? What did you think?
— Susan Derby, Special to the Los Angeles Times
[Photo: IHGplc.com]
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May 8th, 2008 at 11:02 am
I believe this nonsense about “going green” has been just propelled way into stratosphere.The brass at ICH in their ivory towers sit and pen these lofty nonsense for publicity of their hotels. Has anyone ever asked them who is paying for them?
If you don’t have a clue, let me help you. The Franchisees and the consumers in higher room rates.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:34 am
I think this is a great idea! My meeting and event company specializes in green meetings (Meeting Revolution) so I love this. I do think that some of their ideas are really creative and might work. For example, plant life as insulation on the roof. Who has done that before? No one that I know of. AND if there can be bottled water on the market that specializes in catching the rain before it hits the ground (Tasmanian Rain and Cloud Juice) then why can’t ICH do the same with their water? I think more people and companies have to be as innovative as ICH.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:16 am
I also believe it is a great idea! And to be honest, the idea is not that new…There are whole Green Cities designed with some of the same principles, and as a student, I can assure you that if you open almost any book on Environmental Science, you will see that ICH has in a way “copy-pasted” from the book! But that is more than great, and I am happy that there will be such a hotel! It is a great start!