ICHRIE and Sustainable Hospitality Alliance announce agreement to advance sustainability in the hospitality industry

Press release: 25 October 2022

Leading networks for responsible hospitality and global education for hospitality and tourism have formed a co-operation agreement to create innovative solutions for advancing sustainability in the hospitality sector. The agreement between the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance (the Alliance) and the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education (ICHRIE) was announced at the Alliance’s Net Positive Summit in London on 11 October.

On 30 JUNE 2022 the Sustainability & Innovation SIG hosted the webinar, "Sustainability on the Ground: Practices, Education & Resources" that highlighted urban global hotel brands path to low impact to ecolodges protecting biodiversity-rich destinations, action is the name of the game.

The DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Alliance Partnership Brief 

What is the DEI Alliance?

A bold, intentional initiative is underway among higher education institutions to build a strategically aligned alliance to address the needs of and create a pathway for talented lower socio-economic Black high school and community college students to pursue a hospitality management degree. The program is tentatively named the DEI Alliance.

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research just released its Call for Papers for a new special issue on 1 April 2022, and the full version of that Call for Papers can be found at: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/jht/cfp-responsible-tourism-hospitality.