Two London hotels - Lancaster London and The Langham - are celebrating this week after picking up awards for their efforts in making their businesses greener and more sustainable

The Lancaster London, accredited with a bronze award under the Green Tourism for London scheme last year, has been upgraded to silver status this year following its efforts to reduce its carbon footprint and waste.

Since inspected last year the hotel has installed bee hives on its roof to help safeguard the bee population and create its own honey, and set up an 'environmental taskforce' to monitor energy saving as well as continuing with more standard proceedures such as installing energy saving lightbulbs and sorting waste.

Lancaster London's general manager Stephen Kyjak-Lane said the award was: "a testament to the whole team, who have been working extremely hard to reduce the hotel’s environmental impact.”

Sustainable commitment

Under a separate scheme, the Green Globe Earthcheck Benchmarking programme, the Langham has been given bronze status for creating a sustainability policy for the hotel and completing a benchmarking assessment.

The hotel, which re-opened last year following an £80m refurbishment, has made commitments to the international scheme to reduce energy, water consumption and waste.

The Green Tourism for London scheme was launched in 2007 by the London Development Agency. The organisation aims to improve the environmental performance and green credentials of hotels, guesthouses, venues and attractions across London.

We visited the Lancaster London to speak to them about their sustainable practices. See the video to find out about what they're doing to be green.

SOURCE : BigHospitality.co.uk