Small Hotels Leading Environmental Performance in the Caribbean

Berthia M. Parle, MBE, President of the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA), praised the Caribbean Hotel Environmental Management Initiative (CHEMI) as an “example of the practical assistance needed by the small hotel sector to reduce their burdensome overhead costs.”

Through the CHEMI project, the Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism (CAST) provides tools, assessment, and technical guidance to hoteliers in Anguilla, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines.

It is an effort aimed at empowering them to implement efficient environmental best practices within their hotel operations, and, for some of them, to assist them in pursuing Green Globe Benchmarking and Certification.