Fairmont Hotels Environmentally Friendly Conference Programs

If you’re main focus when planning a conference is an environmentally friendly hotel partner (rather than focusing on fun – like holding your conference on a cruise) you may want to consider Fairmont Hotels. Fairmont Hotels has jumped on the eco-friendly bandwagon with its Eco-Meet program, which now available at all of its properties.

What’s so green about the program? According to the press release,

Eco-service provides “disposable-free” food and beverage services and recycling stations in the meeting rooms. This service is an important element to a greener meeting and, for example, includes china and cutlery used instead of disposal items, linen napkins instead of paper, and centerpieces that are edible/organic or made from reusable items such as silk flowers. White boards are used rather than paper flip charts.

Eco-accommodation offers in-room information, recycling bins, optional sheet and towel replacement at select properties, energy-efficient lighting, and water-conserving showerheads, toilets and tap aerators.

Eco-cuisine menus incorporate local, seasonal and organically grown foods wherever possible. Special menus for Eco-Meet can also include a 50-percent reduction in animal proteins, supplemented by vegetable proteins at meal functions. Fairmont properties having their own herb gardens or the availability of the seasonings locally feature dishes with those ingredients. The emphasis is on healthy, environmentally friendly and delicious food.

Eco-programming provides activities and guest-speakers to complement the Eco-Meet experience. Whether it’s a keynote address, a full-day team building eco-experience or something in-between, Fairmont’s eco-programming educates and informs meeting delegates, while providing innovative and exceptional meeting services. There are also paperless services available for events including a dedicated TV channel to provide information and updates to delegates, electronic paperless check-in/checkout and e-mailed contracts and information used where possible. Fairmont will also assist meeting planners to offset their event’s greenhouse gas emissions by purchasing green tags/energy certificates.

More information on the program is available at www.fairmont.com/environment.