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Eco-Criteria

Welcome to EcoRooms® & EcoSuites™!

Our site offers a diverse listing of hotels that meet our green criteria, earning the approval of hotel guests and hospitality professionals alike. The resources on EcoRooms® & EcoSuites™ will guide your greener hotel search, supporting the sustainability standards you expect with experience and credibility.   

To assure that our approval and certification goes well beyond greenwashing, The Board of Advisors at EcoRooms® & EcoSuites™ assembled a rigorous set of standards for ecologically responsible hotel products, practices, and principles.

We developed these criteria by combining the experience of our Board of Advisors with the needs expressed by Eco-conscious consumers in surveys by Deloitte and TIA. Our approved hotels use more sustainable cleaning, paper, and amenity products, empower guests to make a difference with recycling and linen re-use programs, and increase efficiency with better lighting, plumbing, and planning. For more information, read the details.

We enjoy hearing from guests and hoteliers.  Please contact us if you have any questions, thoughts or suggestions about the criteria or the current hotels. Also please feel free to let us know about other hotels anywhere in the world that you think would be valuable additions to EcoRooms® & EcoSuites™. 

Sincerely,

Ray Burger, Chairman

 EcoRooms & EcoSuites approves and  certifies the greenest hotels that have implemented  our  stringent Eco-Criteria:

  1. Green Seal certified  or equivalent cleaning products are used in guestrooms.
  2. Green Seal certified or equivalent paper products (facial and bathroom tissue)  are used in guestrooms.
  3. Bathrooms feature amenity dispensers or small, practical amenity sizes with  guests encouraged to take the remainder of their bathroom amenities home or donate them to homeless shelters.
  4. The hotel has implemented a Linen and Towel Reuse Program
  5. Guests are provided separate and easily identified receptacles and/or bags  in which to deposit recyclables.  
  6. Energy-efficient lighting is in place in every applicable area.
  7. High efficiency plumbing  - 1. 6 or less gallons-per-flush for toilets and 1.5 gallons per minute or less for sinks with water-efficient aerators.
  8. 100% Smoke-Free Hotel
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