The Westin Dragonara Resort, part of Starwood hotels and resorts chain, is continually looking into new areas to reduce the carbon footprint.

The hotel has recently introduced a Green council, made up from a number of associates who together have implemented specific projects such as; ‘Green Room’, the Reverse Osmosis Plant, in-house waste separation, paper recycling, power factor corrector and using energy saving lighting and appliances.

This year the company will also be investing in new energy and water saving equipment to further reduce the carbon footprint.

Starwood hotels and resorts across the globe have been working diligently over the past 18 months to reduce their environmental impact.

Many owners have already been involved by working alongside in Global Citizenship efforts – namely environmental responsibility and community involvement. The passion for environmental sustainability is second to none in the hotel industry.

Earlier this year Starwood crossed an important milestone when it opened its 1000th property.

Today, its brands are represented in nearly 100 countries and it plans to open about 80 hotels this year, many of these in rapidly growing markets.

As the footprint grows, Starwood has an even greater environmental responsibility and one that is shared across all Starwood hotels. Ambitious yet achievable goals have been set to reduce the use of energy and water.

By 2020, the energy goal is to reduce consumption by 30 per cent per available room across all owned, managed and franchised rooms. On the same basis, the goal is to reduce water consumption by 20 per cent.

Starwood’s innovative edge plays an important role in this work.

A sustainability-centered Element brand is serving as a “greenovation” lab, as hotel operating practices are looked into with an innovative lens. What is discovered at Element about running green hotels is then applied to other Starwood brands.

Its guests, especially the younger ones, are choosing brands that share the same sense of purpose for reducing environmental impact.

Looking into the future, meeting and exceeding these expectations are a critical aspect of building the brands.

The Westin Dragonara Resort has also joined over 100 Starwood hotels across Europe, Africa and the Middle East in a powerful global message about environmental awareness and caring for the planet during Earth hour.

The Westin Dragonara Resort took energy-saving measures for one full hour by switching off all non-essential lighting and reducing all lighting in public areas.