Intercontinental Hotels Group plans to replace its miniature bottles of shampoo and the like with larger alternatives
TOURISTS ARE OFTEN attracted to a holiday destination due to the presence of pristine beaches, fresh air and clear seawater. But that does not mean that the travel and tourism industry, as a whole, is very green. A paper published in, a scientific journal, last year calculated that the travel and tourism business produces around 8% of the greenhouse-gas emissions produced by mankind each year.
IHG plans to replace its miniature bottles of shampoo and the like with larger alternatives. It has also previously pledged to ban plastic straws in its hotels. And many of its brands are replacing plastic bottles of water with ones made of glass. There is some logic for ditching the use of smaller plastic containers.
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