Mercure Hotels Down Under Love the Environment

February 22, 2008 at 9:30 AM | by amandak | 0 Comments

Hotels know that some guests are starting to prefer eco-friendly hotels, but the Mercure Hotels chain in Australia have decided that this particularly applies to business guests, and have launched a "carbon-neutral conferencing" option as part of the Mercure Meetings range of services.

That means that if you attend a conference being held at a Mercure Hotel in Australia, you can sit through the presentations with an easy conscience: because part of the conference package involves the hotel paying up for the full value of carbon offsets to emissions produced by the conference.

Mercure promises that the cost of these offsets are not passed on to the conference holders or participants but ... in the end, they are getting the money from guests, somehow.

But the thought is nice. Mercure is making quite a big deal about being green in general, proudly following parent Accor's global environmental charter with its 20 "priority actions" intended to reduce energy consumption and improve recycling and waste management. It really sounds like they think investing in the environment will convince people to book rooms, and actually, we kind of hope they're right.

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