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Hotel Booking Hotel operators across the country are turning green awareness into greenbacks with earth-friendly conservation efforts. As part of these, many are asking guests to reuse their towels and sheets, a practice that saves money and appeals to travelers who want to practice energy conservation even when they are on the road.

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Travel Agency In 1998, the American Hotel and Lodging Association worked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, to develop a water-saving initiative called "Good Earthkeeping" to cut back on an estimated 180 billion gallons of water hotels use every year.

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Cheap Hotel The campaign encourages hotels to give guests a choice of re-using towels and sheets.

Flight Booking The association sold 100,000 in-room cards that hotels use to inform guests of the earth-friendly housekeeping program. The way to inform housekeeping that you want to participate is simply to hang your towels up.

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Travel Agent The association has since replaced the "Good Earthkeeping" products with those sold by Georgia-based "Project Planet."

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Hotel Chicago Project Planet also revolves around using in-room cards asking guests to use their bed linens and towels more than once. But it also provides posters for elevators and lobbies and other amenities.

Online Booking According to the organization, hotels that use Project Planet products say that between 68 percent and 72 percent of guests who are staying more than one night choose to participate.

Travel Health Insurance In addition, the Houston-based Green Hotels Association also markets products such as display cards.

Hotel Reservation Green Hotels member Joan Fitzsimmons, who owns the Amber Street Inn in Beach Haven, said that many of her guests participate.

London Hotel Booking "More often than not, people just hang the things back up," Fitzsimmons said. "So it benefits us because we're obviously not using as much water and that's definitely a big part of running a bed-and-breakfast."

Discount Travel Fitzsimmons said that if her housekeeping staff noticed that a hanging towel was not drying, they would replace it anyway.

Orlando Hotel "We're close to the ocean and if it's a muggy day, something that is very, very wet simply won't dry," she said. "The staff will use their judgment and just replace it if they see the need."

Booking Agency The practice appears to be less common in hotels where guests have a tendency to stay just one night.

International Travel Medical In Atlantic City, of the hotels that were responsive to The Press of Atlantic City's inquiry, only Bally's Atlantic City is participating in the Project Planet program.

New York Hotel "As of now, Bally's is currently in a test period for multiple-night stays," said spokesman Brian Cahill who also represents Caeser's, Claridge and the Hilton casino hotels. "Then we will evaluate the program in the future."

Online Travel Booking At Resorts Atlantic City, spokeswoman Kim Butler wanted to know if guests were offered a discount for conserving energy. They're not.

Travel Medical Insurance In Vineland, the general manager for the Holiday Inn Express said that his hotel also doesn't participate because most of its guests only stay one night.

Miami Hotel "I'd say 99 percent of our guests are only here for a single night," John Baker said. "The other 2 percent are long-term stays and we only clean their rooms twice a week anyway."

Air Deccan Booking The New Jersey Hotel and Motel Association did not respond to repeated requests for information.

Las Vegas Nevada Travel By Kelley Campbell
The Press of Atlantic City - 4/15/2002

Topic: Green Living

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