CSR and Sustainability

💸 FuturePlus added 84 hotels to its IMPACT CERTIFIED ecosystem due to travelers' preferences for sustainable stays. Over three years, the platform has engaged in sustainability and ESG reporting, with the hospitality sector seeing 65% of consumers favor accommodations with recognized certificates. FuturePlus members use IMPACT CERTIFIED badges, signaling ongoing environmental and social progress. Partnered with Booking.com and Travalyst Compliance, FuturePlus contributes to ESG standardization. Clients have collectively set over 4,200 sustainability goals, achieving more than 2,700, with 84 certified hotels accomplishing 750 goals. TROO Hospitality joined FuturePlus in September 2022 for its TROO Impact strategy. Atlas Hotels, with 58 locations across the UK, has also embraced the FuturePlus platform for sustainability initiatives.

🛏 Eradicating bed bugs in a 50-room hotel emits as much CO₂ as 229 one-way London-New York flights. A 50-room hotel undergoes one bed bug infestation annually, leading to the fumigation of five rooms and an annual full-property chemical treatment, resulting in 70.8 tons of CO₂ per year. Valpas CEO Martim Gois advocates for a non-toxic, digital solution to replace harmful chemicals. Valpas aims to expand its 'hospitality standard' to 2 million beds by 2030, following a €4m seed funding round led by Zenith VC.

🐛 Bed bug eradication in a 50-room hotel equals the CO₂ emissions of 229 one-way flights from London to New York, contributing 70.8 tons of CO₂ annually per hotel. Valpas, offering sustainable and bed bug-free stays, aims to expand its non-toxic, digital solution to 2 million beds by 2030, a 50x growth, following a successful 2024 and a €4m seed funding round led by Zenith VC. Traditional chemical fumigation harms biodiversity, affecting pollinators and only effectively reaching 5% of intended targets.