Eco-Enhancing Partners
Pineapple Hospitality USFI | GreenWorks and INNCOM International join EcoRooms & EcoSuites as Stra
APRIL 28, 2009 - Strengthening its position as a leader in socially responsible travel, Pineapple Hospitality is proud to announce that USFI | GreenWorks and INNCOM International have signed on as Strategic Partners and Corporate Sponsors of EcoRooms & EcoSuites (www.EcoRooms.com).
EcoRooms & EcoSuites is the premier online listing and resource for green hotels in the United States and abroad. Utilizing its eight criteria for membership - a rigorous set of standards for ecologically responsible hotel products, practices and principles - EcoRooms & EcoSuites is leading the way toward sustainable travel by providing the most stringent, credible green hotel certification program in the world.
'By adhering to the EcoRooms & EcoSuites criteria, hoteliers reduce their energy use, water use, waste and toxic byproducts,' says Dan Ruben, Executive Director, Boston Green Tourism. 'When one stays in an EcoRooms & EcoSuites-listed hotel, it's comforting to know that the management acts on their concern for our environment.'
Ruben notes that EcoRooms & EcoSuites is one of only three certifications that Boston Green Tourism supports, along with the U.S. EPA Energy Star for Hospitality label and U.S. Green Building Council's LEED Certification. Find out more at www.bostongreentourism.org/Find_a_Green_Hotel.html.
And with two more proven industry innovators such as USFI | GreenWorks and INNCOM now on board, EcoRooms & EcoSuites has a plethora of additional resources with expertise in the field of sustainable, responsible travel to offer its lodging partners and their guests.
'We're excited that USFI | GreenWorks and INNCOM are going to be working more closely with us as strategic partners and corporate sponsors,' says Ray Burger, President of EcoRooms & EcoSuites. 'Just like our member partners, these two companies have gone above and beyond in creating solutions for ecologically responsible hotel products, practices and principles.'
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