Special Reports

Cornell’s Center for Hospitality Research (CHR), in partnership with Greenview, supports the Cornell Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking Index (CHSB), an industry-led global data initiative launched in 2013. This initiative enables hotels worldwide to calculate their carbon footprint and benchmark their energy, water, and carbon emissions efficiently and affordably, drawing on a dataset of over 27,000 hotels. Major hotel brands, operators, and owners participate in the CHSB, representing 1,072 geographies across 83 countries, 84 regions, 709 market areas, and 185 climate zones. The CHSB report is authored by Eric Ricaurte and Rehmaashini Jagarajan.

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The Cornell Nolan School of Hotel Administration’s Center for Hospitality Research, in collaboration with Women Leading Travel & Hospitality, has launched a gender diversity benchmarking study to uncover the current gender diversity landscape, opportunities for women’s advancement, and organizational best practices for supporting women in travel and hospitality. Results are forthcoming.