{"id":22569,"date":"2020-04-08T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T11:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/uncategorized\/green-hotel\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T09:22:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T09:22:01","slug":"green-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/green-hotel","title":{"rendered":"Green Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of Green Hotel in the <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hospitality-industry\">hospitality industry<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>A green hotel is a <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel\">hotel<\/a> that focusses on sustainability in its business practices.<br \/>\nIt differentiates itself from other hotels with its strong focus of reducing carbon emission, water usage, waste reduction and electricity usage, these type of hotels are trying to reduce their impact on the environment as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Lately businesses have aimed to become greener by either participating in certification programs or by maintaining memberships in green hotel associations.<\/p>\n<p>Green hotel will also be built from sustainable materials and aims to also leave a low or no carbon footprint.<br \/>\nMany green hotels are therefore also carbon zero hotels. Green hotels may be located in cities, villages or remote locations. Green hotels are very similar to eco-friendly hotels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/eco-hotel\">Eco hotel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/eco-lodge\">Eco lodge<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of Green Hotel in  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-g","category-glossary"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Green Hotel Definition \/ Meaning - Xotels Glossary<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Definition: Green hotel: A green hotel is a hotel that focusses on sustainability in its business practices. 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