Lodging Magazine's Green & Sustainability Conference to Highlight Maintaining Sustainable Hotels
Yardley, PA - August 9, 2013 - Lodging Media, the publisher of Lodging Magazine, will host the “Lodging Green & Sustainability Conference & Expo” to educate hotel owners, senior executives, general managers and facility managers on ways to make their hotel operations more sustainable on October 1-3, 2013 in Dallas. A discounted rate of $395 is available for conference attendees who register before August 30, 2013.
The conference will host more than 60 distinguished panelists and speakers, including hoteliers business leaders, consultants, investors, and policymakers. The opening keynote speaker for the event is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who serves as Senior Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Chief Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and President of Waterkeeper Alliance. Mr. Kennedy is also a Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney at Pace University School of Law's Environmental Litigation Clinic and is co-host of Ring of Fire on Air America Radio.
The event will take place at the Omni Dallas, which was built to meet the U.S. Green Building Council LEED Gold Certification standards, placing it on the forefront of environmental awareness and conservation in the city. The hotel's sustainability highlights include the use of reclaimed timber and brick in the hotel's restaurant, a 25,000-gallon cistern to reduce storm water run-off and capture water as a means of irrigation in lieu of city water, a rain garden, and solar reflective indexes in the roof. The 1,001-guest room Omni is owned by the City of Dallas, and is connected to the adjacent convention center. “We are very pleased that the Lodging Green Conference will be at the Omni Dallas Hotel,” said Omni Dallas General Manager Larry Magor. “We recently received LEED Gold New Construction (NC) certification, making the Omni Dallas the largest LEED Gold hotel in the U.S. outside of Las Vegas and one of the only one's in the state of Texas. We are very proud of this distinction.”
Event speakers include Faith Taylor, Senior Vice President Sustainability and Innovation, Wyndham Worldwide, Scott Parisi, President of EcoGreenHotel,Jason Kliwinski, Leed-AP founder and president of Designs for Life, Glenn Hasek, publisher and editor of Green Lodging News, and Karena Albers and Jenifer Willig, co-founders of Whole World Water.
“We are very excited about the level of enthusiasm we have received from speakers, sponsors and attendees for this unique conference,” said Bill Corsini, publisher of Lodging Magazine. “We look forward to bringing together the many hotel property owners, general managers and facility engineers into a substantive discussion of real-world green strategies and solutions within the hospitality industry today.”
Panel topics include:
- Sustainable Design and Construction
- Marketing Sustainable Properties to Guests
- Sustainable Supply Management
- Best Practices in Carbon Measurement and Tracking
- The Ins and Outs of Energy and Water Efficiency Audits
- Federal, State and Municipal Mandates
- Buying (and Selling) Sustainable Properties
Sponsors and exhibitors for the conference include: EcoGreenHotel, Vivreau, the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute, Cicero's Development Corp., Gold Mobile, Panasonic Vents, SAI, ClearWater Tech, MindClick, VingCard, Grainger, Carrier Enterprise Corp, VingCard Elsafe, Benchmarx, Philips Lighting, Mitsubishi HVAC and Green Lodging News.
About Lodging Media
Lodging Media is a subsidiary of the McNeill Group, a premier producer of quality magazines, Web sites, newsletters and events. Its award-winning custom publishing team has helped dozens of publishers, both big and small, to attain their revenue goals and promote their publications' vision and messages to their readers.
Please visit www.lodgingevents.com/green for more information about registering for the green conference.
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Contact Lodging Media:
John De Bellis
Director of Marketing & Communications
+ 1 215-321-9662 x40
[email protected]
Bill Corsini
Publisher
Lodging Media
+ 1 215-321-9662 x41
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