The Fiji Times, 20 June 2018 – PACNEWS | NADI, (IFC) – Fiji’s tourist hotels could make significant savings in energy and operating costs, if they opted to go green, according to a senior official from IFC, the International Finance Corporation.
Autif Sayyed, IFC’s green building special in Asia and the Pacific, told a conference in Nadi that it’s possible for hotels to save between 15 and 30% of their energy costs, if clever design decisions are taken early by owners and operators of hotels.
Sayyed was speaking at a session on financing tourism businesses towards sustainability at the 30th Joint Meeting of the UNWTO Commission for East Asia and the Pacific and the UNWTO Commission for South Asia UNWTO Regional Seminar on Climate Change, Biodiversity & Sustainable Tourism Development in Nadi. Read more…
