Environmentalism/Sustainability

CityCenter's Gamble on In-room Innovation Pays Off
For CityCenter's 4,004-room ARIA Resort & Casino and Mandarin Oriental hotel, the opportunity to implement the most cutting-edge in-room technologies is paying off through the generation of guest loyalty and cost savings.
Honoring 2010 Hotel Visionaries
Each year, Hospitality Technology presents a select group of lodging companies with its Hotel Visionary Awards to honor their outstanding vision and achievement in technology and service innovation. The 2010 winners showcase the great range of innovation that can be accomplished in every sector of the lodging industry.

Great Wolf Celebrates One-year Anniversary of Project Green Wolf with Green Seal Certification

On the one-year anniversary of the company's Project Green Wolf, Great Wolf Resorts, Inc., celebrated the distinction of having all of its properties achieve the Green Seal Certification.
Telkonet's Latest Smart Thermostat Offers Enhanced Energy Management Features

Telkonet's SmartEnergy technology has been enhanced to further reduce energy costs with greater customization, and offer wireless communication capability.
Darden Commits to Reducing Energy & Water Usage, Joins Sustainability Consortium

Darden's system-wide sustainability goals have the company committed to reducing energy and water usage by 15 percent by the year 2015 in each of its 1,800 restaurants across North America.
Panasonic's Lite-Ray POS Workstation Earns Energy Star Qualification

As an Energy Star qualified product, Lite-ray POS Workstation can be expected to reduce energy usage and carbon emissions, thereby helping the environment and providing cost savings to users.
Star Micronics POS Printer Promises to Reduce Power Consumption by 40 Pervcent

The TSP100ECO provides users with a selection of features that promise to reduce negative environmental effects, chief among which is a sophisticated power management system.
IP-Converged Networks

What's the best way to create a converged wireless infrastructure? Hotels weigh the pros and cons of rip-and-replace versus reuse and recycle. At the end of the day, though, does it all come down to balancing budgets against customers' needs?
Cornell Sustainability Roundtable Proceedings Demonstrate Complexity of Green Operations

The roundtable participants agreed that guests expect hotels to operate in a sustainable manner; so the question no longer is whether to be sustainable, but how to do it.
Epson Unveils Newest Generation of its Best-Selling Thermal Receipt Printer

With an industry-leading, four-year warranty and print speeds up to 50% faster than the previous model, Epson's TM-T88V offers solid reliability along with advanced, full-featured printing functionality and is ideally suited for a broad array of retail and food service applications.

CityCenter's Gamble on In-room Innovation Pays Off

Honoring 2010 Hotel Visionaries

Great Wolf Celebrates One-year Anniversary of Project Green Wolf with Green Seal Certification

Telkonet's Latest Smart Thermostat Offers Enhanced Energy Management Features

Darden Commits to Reducing Energy & Water Usage, Joins Sustainability Consortium

Panasonic's Lite-Ray POS Workstation Earns Energy Star Qualification

Star Micronics POS Printer Promises to Reduce Power Consumption by 40 Pervcent

IP-Converged Networks

Cornell Sustainability Roundtable Proceedings Demonstrate Complexity of Green Operations

Epson Unveils Newest Generation of its Best-Selling Thermal Receipt Printer