Hospitality sector urged to embrace sustainability

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Maggie Moore, exhibition director, The Hotel Show.

With more than 13,000 regional and overseas visitors to The Hotel Show in Dubai last month, mounting competition in the hospitality and foodservice sector is forcing the industry to reassess its role.

The show’s organiser claimed the emerging trend for sustainability was now paramount to the success of regional hotels and restaurants.

“With hundreds of new hotels due to open over the next few years, regional hotel owners and managers are preparing to out manoeuvre each other in the face of the intense competition they are about to witness,” said exhibition director, Maggie Moore.

“This undoubtedly accounted for a significant proportion of the 30% increase in visitors witnessed this year [at The Hotel Show].”

In the furnishings sector, which displayed its wares in this year’s dedicated Textiles & Editeurs pavilion, many exhibitors had recycled products on show according to Moore, such as fabrics made from recycled plastic bottles.

According to Valley Forge Fabrics, one of the largest textile suppliers to hotels worldwide and a pioneer in recycled production, the environmental trend in the region is beginning to become apparent.

“We are seeing hotels here starting to build their sources in this area and prepare to become more eco-friendly,” said director of sales, Kimberly Roeser.

“The price-point is the same or lower than traditional materials and eco materials are not necessarily more expensive or less beautiful than those ‘natural’ products [that are] not always good for the environment.”

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