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The following are news stories being reported by a number of key environmental design and hospitality news Internet sites today.

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Contents

IHEI Resources
If there is an environmental topic you need to know more about, you should find it here

Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales
HRH The Prince of Wales, President of the International Business Leaders Forum, thanks hotel industry leaders who, ten years ago, championed the environment "when it was a good deal less fashionable than it is today"

From the Director
IHEI's Director, Karen Fletcher, reflects on the hotel industry's progress during the past decade towards sustainable development and operation

News and Views
Tourism Concern calls for more green action from tour operators
Accor publishes 'In Hotels as in the Home' guide
China hosts main celebrations for World Environment Day
Greenstop.net aims to clear confusion on tourism industry ecolabels
Tearfund survey finds the public wants to benefit community
Nasdaq stock market launches first socially screened index

Top Tips
Top tools – a selection of key resources to help your CSR programme
Examples to follow from the Renaissance in Reading, UK
Kauai Marriott donates carpet to Habitat for Humanity

Environmental Labelling and Certification Schemes
With more than 100 different sustainable tourism certification schemes around the world, this article examines the feasibility and likelihood of creating regional and international certification programmes

IHEI Members – a Review of Progress
A look at the environmental achievements of IHEI International Council members over the past ten years and how hotel industry leaders view the importance of corporate social responsibility and environmental issues in the future

Affiliate Member Profiles
The role that IHEI's affiliated hotel associations and the Small Luxury Hotels of the World consortium are playing in shaping the environmental agenda for hotels

Associate Member Profile
Tourism businesses around the world can learn much from IHEI's Associate Member, Turtle Island

Corporate Partner Profile
What sustainability means for IHEI's Corporate Partner, CH2MHill, and how it delivers practical, sustainable solutions to its clients while reducing costs and increasing profitability

Using Natural Products
Some of the many opportunities for using natural products within all aspects of hotel construction and operation

Controlling Pests and Bugs
Controlling pests and vermin is an inescapable part of operating hotels and restaurants. This article identifies some of the major problems that hotels have to contend with, and some environmentally-preferable ways of dealing with them

Regional Report - Europe, Middle East and Africa
Hotel staff help to build homes in South Africa
The UK's Sustainable Tourism Initiative unfolds
Exploring urban green tourism and ecotourism in Israel
Prizes awarded in the Considerate Hoteliers awards
Hospitable Climates 'Champion of the Year'
Tourism businesses in the Midlands, UK, pilot green audit kit
Maris celebrates World Tourism Day with clean up in Crete

Regional Report - Caribbean and the Americas
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts wins energy innovators award
Minister calls for Caribbean nations to become eco-nations
New York's design and build community celebrates green design
Maui Marriott Resort staff clean up Hawaiin beach
Amsterdam Manor's winning environmental ways in Aruba
Helping the over 50's to become responsible eco-tourists

Regional Report - Asia and the Pacific
Update on PATA conference and Gold Awards
Sukau Rainforest Lodge takes on its first local guides
Ayers Rock Resort is Red Centre's Green Hotel
Eco-aware practices at the Revival Hotel in Baroda, India

International and Regional Environmental Awards
Some of the awards which environmentally proactive hotels may wish to enter