Serviced apartments povider, SilverDoor has unveiled a new tool to help clients make better informed
sustainable choices.
The new sustainability tool – the SilverDoor Carbon Calculator collates carbon emissions data for the serviced
apartment sector. The tool aims to help bookers set, monitor and achieve their business travel sustainability goals.
The tool calculates a building-specific, per-night CO2 emissions estimate for a stay in a
serviced apartment and compares the figure to an equivalent hotel stay using trusted industry
standard data from the Cornell Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking Index.
How it works:
Using data provided by its 2,000-plus-strong international property partner network, SilverDoor has developed
proprietary methodology to estimate what CO2 emissions can be attributed to a night’s stay in an
operator’s apartment.
This will include total area of each apartment as well as the wider building,
electricity, gas and oil use, total area of climate-controlled space, water consumption and laundry
management.
Results show the calculated volume of CO2 emissions per night against the equivalent hotel industry
average to help guests, travel managers and bookers understand and compare the environmental
performance between bookings based on type and length of stay in exactly the same way they
compare rates, location and facilities.
Alex Neale, group head of partner relationships at SilverDoor said,
“Our ambition for the launch of the Carbon Calculator is to provide that data and transparency for
the serviced apartment sector and lead the industry in the next stage of its sustainability journey."
