hospitality
The latest turn in the Iran war has made the energy risk much easier to explain. It now has a name, a map, and a choke point: the Strait of Hormuz. That narrow shipping lane handles roughly 1/5 of the world’s seaborne oil and LNG, and the latest
hospitality
Most hospitality operators still think of air monitoring as a guest comfort feature. That is too narrow. In practice, room-level monitoring tells you when ventilation is underperforming, humidity is drifting toward mold risk, or a property is consuming energy in ways nobody can explain. Those are not cosmetic signals. They
hospitality
There is one number that should get a hotel operator's attention fast: $145 per guest room per year. That figure did not come from a vendor brochure. It came from IHG Hotels & Resorts' own testing of smart thermostats, measured with revenue-grade meters across multiple metro areas.
energy
Most hotel operators I've spoken to treat EU energy regulations as a future problem. Something to sort out when the auditor shows up, or when the regulation officially lands in their country. A compliance project for next year's budget cycle. Here's what the calendar
energy
Hotels waste somewhere between 25% and 40% of their energy spend. Most of the people who run hotels know this. The technology to address it exists, has been deployed at scale, and has a demonstrated payback period under two years in most scenarios. And yet walk into most hotels today