• October 10, 2024

Kempinski Hotels launches sustainable toolkit for event planners

Kempinski Hotels launches sustainable toolkit for event planners

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Luxury hotel brand Kempinski Hotels has announced the launch of Responsible Meetings & Events by Kempinski, which provides a toolkit to help meeting and event planners to assess and reduce the environmental impact of events.

Created by EarthCheck, a leading scientific benchmarking, certification and advisory group for sustainable hotels, destinations and tourism organisations, the programme includes VenueCheck, a meetings management system to help organisers to reduce the environmental impact of events, and EventCalculator, which calculates the carbon footprint of events.

As EarthCheck’s global launch partner, Kempinski has early access to the tools and will provide further input into their design and development.

VenueCheck provides hotels and other meeting venues with a verified sustainability management framework tailored to each individual meeting space within a property, allowing venue owners to assess and improve the sustainability of their event operations.

Event planners will be able to determine an event’s impact based on the unique dimensions and other characteristics of the spaces used within the venue.

To participate in VenueCheck, hotels must already hold EarthCheck certification. At present, 43 Kempinski hotels have attained EarthCheck certification (seven are Gold certified, 21 are Silver and 15 are Bronze), while a further 17 properties have embarked on the certification process and are working towards Bronze.

EventCalculator provides an accurate estimate for an event’s total carbon footprint including energy consumption, water use and waste generation, based on third-party audited data from the property, as well as emissions from transportation, food and beverage consumption and accommodation.

By breaking down the sources of these emissions, EventCalculator aids in compliance and reporting, while helping planners make informed decisions about how best to reduce their carbon footprint effectively. All emission calculations used in this process follow the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and IPCC Reporting Guidelines.

VenueCheck and EventCalculator are aligned with the recently refreshed ISO 20121 standards for Event Sustainability Management Systems.

At present, 18 Kempinski hotels have achieved VenueCheck verification and an additional 13 are in progress. By the end of 2025, Kempinski hopes all EarthCheck-certified hotels will have enrolled in the programme.

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