Iniziativa eco-responsabile e CSR

🏕 Iberostar Hotel & Resorts launches two new properties in Miami: Iberostar Waves Berkeley Shore and Iberostar Waves Miami Beach, focusing on energy efficiency and sustainable practices. The Iberostar Waves Berkeley Shore features 96 rooms within a 1940s Art Déco building, a heated pool, and a specialty restaurant. The Iberostar Waves Miami Beach, recently added, offers 82 rooms, a meeting room, and proximity to the Miami Convention Center. These openings mark Iberostar's US return and its sustainable vision, complementing the JOIA Aruba by Iberostar launched in December and two hotels set to open in April 2025 in Tunisia and Mallorca.

🚢 Costa Smeralda, a cruise ship, completed its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) refueling in Dubai's port on a recent Saturday, marking the port's first LNG operation for a cruise ship. This was facilitated by logistics provider Monjasa and Dubai's Port Authority. The tanker 'Green Zeebrugge' supplied approximately 3,000 cubic meters of LNG, enough for at least two and a half weeks. LNG reduces direct CO2 emissions by up to 20%. Costa Smeralda visited Dubai on December 21, will spend the winter until February 2025 in the UAE, and on March 1, 2025, will embark on a 37-day return cruise to the Mediterranean, arriving in Genoa on April 7, 2025.

🏨 TRGH-The Royal Garden Hotel, situated just outside Milan, is undergoing a significant restyling set for completion in 2026, the year of the Milan-Cortina Olympics. The hotel, designed to cater to business travelers, boasts 150 rooms, a congress center with six meeting rooms, the Blue Crab Restaurant, The Captain’s Bar, a gym, and an urban pool. The restyling effort, led by Nick Maltese Studio, focuses on ecosustainability, including the installation of a photovoltaic park. The congress center seats approximately 650 people, featuring a large meeting room with 340 seats and a 6x3 meter LED wall. The design by Maltese and Pagetti emphasizes geometric patterns, using materials like metal, stone, terracotta, and includes romantic wallpapers from Texturae and lighting from DWC èditions.

🍕 During January, PIZZIUM joins Veganuary, an initiative by Essereanimali.org, promoting a month of plant-based eating. PIZZIUM offers two regular vegan pizzas and a special Veganuary Pizza with a potato cream base, a plant-based mozzarella alternative, leeks, and pomegranate seeds, available for the month at all locations. Alessandra Provasi, Commercial Director, emphasizes continual innovation for sustainable, inclusive vegan options aligning with environmental and ethical values.

🥬 Veganuary, l'iniziativa di gennaio per un'alimentazione vegetale iniziata nel 2014 in Inghilterra, ha coinvolto circa 25 milioni di persone nel 2024 globalmente, con oltre 1,7 milioni in Italia. Planted, una food-tech svizzera fondata nel 2019 e certificata B Corp, celebra l'iniziativa e vanta una gamma di prodotti plant-based in oltre 6.500 ristoranti e più di 10.000 rivenditori. Planted produce alternative alla carne senza additivi, usando ingredienti come proteine di piselli, riducendo fino al 97% le emissioni di CO₂ e fino all'81% il consumo di acqua.

🏡 Caracciolo Hospitality Group, established in Naples and Campania in 2022 by Neapolitan entrepreneurs, achieved a rapid success, closing 2024 with an 80% average occupancy of its two Neapolitan properties and a turnover between €17.5 to €18 million. The group is involved in local initiatives, such as collaborating with Dedalus for women in distress, Bella Piazza for public space maintenance, and Migrantour promoting cultural tours. Transitioning Palazzo Caracciolo from Accor to Hilton affiliation, the de Bonart Naples Curio Collection showcases 150 artworks by 50 Campanian artists. Concerns about overtourism and gentrification in Naples echo the challenges faced by Venice.

🏆 Global travel post-Covid sees a shift as only 35% of consumers prioritize travel and are willing to increase budgets. Winter 2025 forecasts suggest a mere 1% growth in leisure travel spending and 3% in business travel. Economic choices (42%), shorter trips (33%), and high inflation (31%) impact budgets. U.S. travelers lead in close-to-home destinations at 37%, followed by UAE (28%) and UK (27%), with Italians at 20%. Last-minute bookings surge by 10%, apartment demand up by 3%, while hotel demand drops by 3%. Group travel is expected to rise by 4%, driven by business travel. With 50% concerned about overtourism and 20% cancelling trips to crowded places, sustainability is important, with 40% willing to pay 30% more for eco-friendly travel options, with Americans most willing, then Brits and Germans.

💱 Barilla, nel 2024, ha donato 1.400 tonnellate di prodotti al Banco Alimentare in Italia. L'ISTAT ha rivelato che oltre 2,2 milioni di famiglie vivono in povertà assoluta, coinvolgendo più di 5,7 milioni di persone. Nel 2023, Barilla ha coinvolto circa 160 dipendenti in 1000 ore di volontariato, donando 16 tonnellate di cibo e operando in 10 regioni italiane. Dal 2010, l'azienda ha donato oltre 60 milioni di euro e più di 45.000 tonnellate di prodotti per il sociale, incluso 1 milione di euro per la Protezione Civile in Emilia-Romagna e 2 milioni di euro alla Croce Rossa di Parma.

📦 PlanEat will offer around 500 suspended meal kits during Christmas 2024, comprising a full course meal for families in need, as part of the "Mai più Fame: dall’emergenza all’autonomia” project by Action Against Hunger in Milan. Meal distributions for the homeless at Milan Central Station will occur on December 22 and 29, and at Pavia Station on December 24, 30, and 31. Since its inception in late 2020, PlanEat has facilitated the purchase of 18,000 suspended meals, costing €3.50 per 300-gram lasagna portion. Additionally, 70 suspended kits, priced at €13.50 each, have already been bought since December 9, with an unnamed company ordering 27 kits for a lunch service.

💸 In 2024, cameo, a Desenzano del Garda-based food company, donated over 135,000 kg of products to Banco Alimentare, resulting in approximately 271,000 meals. These donations saved 228,000 kg of CO2, over 267,000 m3 of water, and roughly 393,000 m2 of soil, as calculated by ESG Regusto platform. Cameo collaborates with SpesaSospesa.org and its technological core, Regusto, to trace and account for their sustainable actions' impact. Marco Raspati, CEO of Regusto, oversees a network with over 600 companies and around 1,300 non-profit entities.