Portuguese catering and hospitality guide premiere environmental indicator
Evaluate the good environmental practices in the accommodation and restaurants, contributing to national that the environmental impact is as low as possible is the aim of the environmental indicator that has just been created by green dot Corporation exclusively for the Good Bed good table Guide, edited by the newspaper Expresso and the Vision Magazine. The first results of this evaluation are provided in the guide which was recently put up for sale.This innovative index seeks to evaluate the environmental practices of restaurants and hotels, through individualized questionnaire, on a simplified scale and continuous 1 to 5 points. The rational consumption of water, energy saving and waste management are the main components evaluated."In a country that increasingly turned to the outside, we thought relevant to value and encourage the good environmental practices of hospitality and catering establishments, since they are a privileged point of contact with foreign citizens visiting our country. On the other hand, this index aims to respond to consumer demands increasingly sensitized national for the importance of the environment, allowing you to extend the best practices out of the House, "says Luis Veiga Martins said in a statement, CEO of green dot Corporation.Green dot society believes that this environmental indicator will give a vital contribution, through the promotion of good practices, for the achievement of the objectives of Portugal in environmental matters to alert and sensitize the catering establishments and hotels to practices that have a direct impact on operational costs reduction and natural resource savings.The opinion is shared by Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Chairman of the holding Company, owner of the Express titles and vision. "The teams that searched, visited and reviewed hundreds of sites, had a new major challenge: assess environmental good practices, through an indicator prepared exclusively for the good guide Bed good table, by the green dot. Hard work and largely, to sensitize those responsible for restaurants and hotels to the importance of these good practices for the present and for the future of our country ".The saving of natural resources is today a form of effective cost savings in operations of this type of accommodation. In turn, consumers are increasingly demanding and see in good environmental practices a responsible behaviour with identifying themselves. For this reason, were also valued the behaviors that take place away from the watchful eye of consumers (backoffice operations) and shared practices with employees and consumers (front office).The 2014 Edition of the Guide Good Bed good table presents 408 accommodations and 591 restaurants. In addition to the traditional Guide Good Bed good table, with € 500 in discount coupons that readers can use in dozens of hotels, is also available to App Good Bed good table, 2014 through Play Google or from the App Store.Foto: markhillary/Creative Commons
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