On-line carbon foot print calculator for hotels

The EU-funded Switch Asia Program - Greening Sri Lanka Hotels Project has taken the initiative for hotels to make a quick calculation based on a uniform methodology, of their carbon emissions.

The carbon foot print calculator estimates the approximate carbon dioxide equivalent emissions, a hotel releases by its operations.

The hotel has to only fill in its usage of electricity (kwh), diesel and petrol (litres) and LP Gas (kg) and furnace oil in the appropriate fields on the web, for a given period of time, together with the corresponding guest nights or room nights. The online web-based application, shows the equivalent carbon dioxide emissions per room night, or guest night. This application was launched recently, and is now available for all hotels at the Greening Sri Lanka Hotels website: www.greeningsrilankahotels.org

The Project Director, Srilal Miththapala said that this will help hotels to evaluate their approximate carbon foot print, and use it for various management and marketing applications. This is a further initiative of Greening Sri Lanka Hotels Project, in helping hotels to work towards sustainability consumption practices.

The Greening Sri Lanka Hotels Project has registered 239 hotels from all over the country of which, about 140 hotels are SMEs.