Ardilaun Green Hospitality Award

The Ardilaun Hotel Goes Green
And receives Green Hospitality Award

The Ardilaun Hotel, Galway are delighted to announce that they received the Green Hospitality Award for a second year running at a special ceremony in Galway recently. Twenty awards were presented to hotels representing the West and Northwest of Ireland. The Ardilaun Hotel was one of four Galway City Hotels represented and were delighted to receive the bronze award plus one year.

The Green Hospitality Award is a national programme supported by the Environmental Protection Agency and Local Authorities in recognition of efforts made to improve environmental management within the hospitality sector in Ireland.

The Green Hospitality Award currently has over 150 members nationwide in the tourism industry striving for best practice in this important area. The Ardilaun has an internal management programme which reduces the consumption of energy and water and reduces the volume of waste going to landfill etc. The Ardilaun plays its part with the famous motto “reduce, recycle, reuse”. Over €4.6 million has been saved by hotels implementing the programme. The GHA has been encouraged to provide an Eco Label for smaller hospitality businesses by a number of industry federations and government bodies such as the Restaurants Association of Ireland, Vintners  Federation Ireland, Chambers of Commerce of Ireland and Failte Ireland.

“We are delighted to be involved in this step-by-step programme, it gives more control of our Energy, Water and Waste Management areas at The Ardilaun. We forecast to reduce our costs substantially after full implementation of the programme by all members of the hotel team, along with helping the environment. We have streamlined our Waste Management Programme with the objective to recycle more, “ says Eoghan Connors team leader of the Ardilaun Green Policy Project.