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Sustainability Point of View What’s New with the NEWH Sustainable Committee? The Sustainable Committee has been working with the Hospitality Design (HD) Group to implement a new sustainable event for the 2012 Hospitality Design Exposition & Conference (HD Expo). The committee agreed last year to provide support to HD with green programming and to volunteer its expertise. T Consulting; and Susan Inglis, executive director, Sustainable he end result is a newly developed program for Furnishings Council, an international sustainability consultant the annual May event in Las Vegas May 15-17th. and sustainable product developer. Mahood, who will serve The green luncheon will again host the NEWH as the moderator of the discussion, states, Sustainable Design Scholarship “We are thrilled to bring together this Award, and unlike past presentations, it distinguished group of speakers with will be embedded into the three-day show. such unique sustainable experiences. is “By conducting the green luncheon on NEWH is proud to be interactive approach should generate a lively Tuesday, we hope to free many attendees, discussion on a range of topics, many of which exhibitors, and NEWH Board Members conducting sustainable are not brought to the attention of the hotel from schedule conflicts of the previous education at HD Expo in designer, owner, or vendor. day,” says David Mahood, NEWH Las Vegas, and we Sustainable Committee member. The Additionally, 30-minute, one-on-one luncheon event will continue to be the encourage all NEWH, Inc. interviews between the experts and home of the NEWH Sustainable Design members and supporters committee members Cliff Tuttle, Mahood, Competition Scholarship award, and Jillian VanDresser, and Gary Golla, will NEWH will present the award for the sixth to take advantage of this be held at four exhibitor booths at specific consecutive year. Scholarship sponsors, new ‘green’ format times on Tuesday and Wednesday. These live JLF/lone meadow and Valley Forge Fabrics, interviews will expand on issues of the panel will be honored at the ceremony as well. for 2012. discussion as well as others posed by the audience. Each will be live, freeflowing, and The luncheon presentation is being called, Shelia Lohmiller interactive, and an exciting new twist to HD “A Discussion with the Experts.” A diverse Executive Director, NEWH, Inc. Expo. If you would like to host an interview, panel of speakers will be queried on a please check with HD or the Sustainable variety of pertinent issues to the hospitality Committee members for availability. industry, which should yield distinct but intriguing perspectives on sustainability. “NEWH is proud to be conducting sustainable education at Panelists include Hervé Houdré, GM, Intercontinental Barclay, HD Expo in Las Vegas, and we encourage all NEWH members New York, a noted author and speaker on sustainable lodging and supporters to take advantage of this new ‘green’ format for practices; Kathryn Fernholz, executive director, Dovetail 2012,” says Shelia Lohmiller, executive director, NEWH, Inc. Partners, a forest certification and resource management auditor, lecturer, and advisor; Jeanne Varney, lecturer, Cornell School of Hotel Management, and principal, Olive Hospitality For more information, log on to www.hdexpo.com. ❙❘❚ 14 www.newh.org http://www.hdexpo.com http://www.newh.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of NEWH - Spring 2012

NEWH - Spring 2012
Contents
News
Who’s Who
Sustainability: Point of View
Q&A: Julia Marks
Q&A: Dina Belon
Have You Seen?
Product Know How
On the Scene
On The Cover: ISG
Project: Best Western Plus
Project: Westport Inn
Save the Date
New Members
Partner Profiles
Ad Index

NEWH - Spring 2012