The Westin Dublin has just been awarded the Green Hospitality Awards Platinum Award. The Platinum Award is the highest certified award available under the GHA programme. As part of its drive for environmental excellence, the property has undertaken extensive improvements recently, including over 100 specific actions designed to minimise waste, improve energy efficiency and reduce water consumption.

 

There are four award levels through the GHA. The Platinum Award goes to those hotels designated as following World-class Best Practice and recognises hospitality businesses which are kindest to the environment. Andrew Henning, General Manager of The Westin Dublin, was delighted with the Platinum Award:

 

"Our team at The Westin Dublin, in particular Dympna McGlinchey, and the members of our Green Council, have been working very hard to reduce our carbon footprint," he said. "To achieve the highest award accreditation available under the Green Hospitality Awards programme makes us immensely proud and it is wonderful to have our efforts recognised in this way. We are totally committed to our Green Journey and will continue to embrace responsibility for our environment in every way that we can." 

 

Dympna McGlinchey, the Irish Hospitality Institute's Environmental Hospitality Manager of The Year in 2009, is chairperson and one of the founders of The Westin Dublin's Green Council. Dympna has been instrumental in leading the hotel's implementation of the hotel's Green Journey, leading to this coveted Platinum Award.

 

"The mission of the hotel's Green Council, founded in March 2008, was to implement the Green Journey," says Dympna McGlinchey. "The Green Journey is an exciting awareness programme which benefits all associates, not only in the workplace but in their personal lives as well. Getting our staff involved is crucial."