This environmental guidance is for businesses in the hospitality, leisure and tourism industries, including:
- hotels, bed and breakfast accommodation and guesthouses
- campsites and caravan parks
- self-catering accommodation
- restaurants and other catering companies
- bars, clubs and public houses
- sports clubs, leisure centres and other leisure facilities
- activity centres offering outdoor activities and adventure sports
- tourist attractions.
Find out how to minimise the environmental impacts from your hospitality, leisure and tourism business and be more resource efficient.
Environmental impacts of hospitality, leisure and tourism businesses
Businesses involved in hospitality, leisure and tourism can have a number of impacts on the environment. Examples include:
- air emissions from building heating or cooling systems and catering services
- noise pollution from kitchens, music and entertainment or deliveries to and from your site
- resource use such as energy for lighting, heating and cooling, and water for catering services, guest services, washrooms and cleaning tasks
- waste disposal such as packaging waste, old fixtures and fittings and food and catering waste
- water pollution from unauthorised discharges, eg from catering services, contaminated run-off from car parks or storing cleaning or chemical products.
How can NetRegs help you?
Our guidance could help you to:
- avoid prosecution and receive fewer visits from environmental regulators
- increase efficiency and productivity
- reduce your operating costs
- be more likely to obtain business from government bodies and large businesses that require their business partners to manage their environmental impacts effectively
- improve your reputation amongst staff, customers and the public
- increase the chance of securing funding to expand your business by demonstrating that your environmental impacts are well managed.
