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The climate friendly audit addresses initiatives to reduce the hotel’s carbon footprint. Key steps in the process and addressed in this audit are measuring Greenhouse Gas emissions, establishing reduction targets, and developing a climate action plan. Climate actions may include, among other, carbon removal and carbon offsetting initiatives, renewable energy, green transportation, energy use and water reduction and conservation, waste reduction, sourcing local products, establishing sustainable supply chains and climate friendly packaging.

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This audit addresses issues of internal social responsibility, cultural preservation, internal environmental management, supply chain engagement and customer communication. In addition, this self-assessment will help you to figure out where your business stands in terms of sustainability, where you're already doing a good job, and where there's room for improvement. Sustainability has become essential for the success and continuity of tourism businesses. Responsible practices in hotels not only save costs, improve staff satisfaction, have positive impacts on customer experience and their likelihood of returning, but help us to save our planet.

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This audit follows the Hotel Resilient Standards. The standards take proven disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation strategies and tailor them to the needs of the hotel industry. They outline the policies, procedures and actions hotels should implement to become disaster and climate resilient. The audit is divided into seven general sections and two building specific sections. The audit therefore addresses hotels with multiple buildings and provides individual scores for each building type. Your responses to the audit questions will combine to measure a hotel's risk and resilience to natural and technological hazards, including impacts from climate change.

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