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A new software that allows to calculate the environmental impact and carbon footprint of a hotel, and that also suggests suitable alternatives to make the establishment more friendly to the environment was launched by the Organización Mundial del Turismo.
The application called Hotel Energy Solutions is available online and has a demo in English with a preview of the results and an area in which, according to the information provided by the hotel manager (occupancy rates, energy sources, reuse of resources, among others), a report is delivered that details in which aspects resources are being wasted, where energy consumption can be optimized and how to calculate the returns on those investments.
As reported by the World Tourism Organization, the application was developed and tested over three years and aims to increase energy efficiency by 20% and the use of renewable energy sources in each participating hotel establishment by 10%.
Initially the application focused on hotels in Europe (in fact, when registering to do the calculation only offers the possibility of choosing between one of the countries of the "old continent"), although its online nature facilitates access from anywhere in the world.
As a complement, Hotel Energy Solutions offers an educational section called "School of Energy", in which knowledge about sustainable practices and available technologies is deepened, along with a variety of informative publications and communication materials to sensitize guests and operational staff.
A new feature that allows you to book rooms in more than 140,000 hotels worldwide from an iPad tablet was launched by the portal Hotels.com, as reported by the portal in a press release.
The program, which is free to download, is available in 30 languages and allows you to search and book hotels around the world, access 20,000 last-minute offers and view 2.5 million user reviews that are already on the portal.
For the Senior Vice President of E-Commerce of Hotels.com, Scott Booker, it is an application that develops a new innovative search experience, which takes advantage of Apple's functionality and usability and combines it with the system that the portal has consolidated for several years, so that the guest searches, filters and finds options near him and, by the way, also save and manage reservations at your favorite hotels.
"We launched our two mobile apps in April and they have already amassed over 1.5 million downloads. We hope this new app will generate tremendous momentum on those numbers," Brooker said.
The application is designed so that the keyboard remains at the bottom of the screen for the duration of the reservation process, which makes it easier to use. To that are added other options such as the tools to select and filter hotels, change from one hotel to another in seconds and see reviews of other users and photographs of the establishments with a single movement.
The company informed that reservations can be made even without registering in the portal and can be synchronized with other smartphones and calendars; similarly, information from past transactions may be accessed in the future, even without a data connection.
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