Jamaica´s Hotel & Training Institute Grabs CTO Sustainable Tourism Award

The Runaway Bay HEART Hotel and Training Institute, a Jamaican institution charged with responsibility to provide technical and vocational education to nationals of working age, has won the CTO´s award for environmental excellence.

The Runaway Bay HEART Hotel and Training Institute operates 56 hotel rooms and a training facility that prepares persons for the hospitality industry. The hotel enjoys an annual average occupancy of 65 percent and the training institute trains about 315 students every year.

The management team introduced a property-wide Environmental Management System in 2001 aimed at improving operations, minimizing its operations impacts on the physical and social environment and improving environmental conditions in the surrounding area.