Hotels must be prepared to respond effectively to environmental emergencies. While daily operations focus on efficiency and resource management, unexpected incidents can cause significant environmental damage, financial loss, and reputational risk. Structured emergency preparedness ensures that hotels can prevent, manage, and mitigate...
Waste management is a significant environmental and operational challenge in the hospitality industry. Accurate measurement and transparent reporting are essential for identifying reduction opportunities, improving recycling performance, and ensuring credible sustainability communication. A structured waste measurement methodology enables hotels...
Monitoring and measurement are essential components of structured environmental management. Without reliable data, hotels cannot assess performance, identify improvement opportunities, or demonstrate progress toward sustainability goals. Environmental performance must therefore be quantified, reviewed regularly, and used as a basis for informed...
An Environmental Management System (EMS) provides a structured framework that enables hotels to systematically manage, monitor, and improve their environmental performance. Standards such as ISO 14001 define internationally recognized requirements for establishing and maintaining an EMS. The objective is not only regulatory compliance, but...
Hotels impact the environment through several core operational areas. These environmental dimensions help structure sustainability efforts, define measurable indicators, and assign responsibilities across departments. Energy Management Energy consumption is one of the most significant environmental and financial factors in hotel operations. Main...
Definition of Environmental Sustainability Environmental sustainability refers to development that meets present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It is one of the three pillars of sustainability: economy, society, and environment. From an environmental perspective, sustainability focuses on...
GoGreen – Data Integration & Insights Overview GoGreen is designed to integrate sustainability data from multiple sources and convert it into clear, actionable environmental insights. The platform supports standardized data inputs while remaining flexible enough to work with different suppliers, systems, and levels of data maturity. Data can...
Data integration partners per country Belgium District heating - Metry Electricity - Metry General waste - Nehlen Entsorgung • Berlin Rycyklinng Towels & linens - Elis Germany • Wäscherei Max Stich GmbH • Duncker • Monowii • T-Tex Denmark Chemicals - Ecolab (TBA) • Abena (TBA) District heating - Hofor (TBA) Electricity - Energinet...
The CO2 factors module is where you can update and manage CO2 factors as part of environmental management. Updating these factors is necessary for CO2 emissions to be displayed in PMI GoGreen, and for using the Goal distribution tool to set environmental goals. Intended users: This module is for sustainability team members who are responsible for...
The GoGreen Home Page provides an overview of sustainability performance and access to individual GoGreen Cockpits and the GoGreen Index Dashboard of how the team is progressing toward environmental and sustainability targets, and whether they are adopting best practices. It also provides you with navigation points to the GoGreen Adoption index...
What is weather normalization? Weather normalization in the hotel industry is a process used to adjust and standardize performance metrics, such as energy consumption, to account for variations in weather conditions. This allows hotels to accurately compare their performance against the target. What is its purpose? Weather normalization in PMI...
What is weather normalization? Weather normalization in the hotel industry is a process used to adjust and standardize performance metrics, such as energy consumption, to account for variations in weather conditions. This allows hotels to accurately compare their performance against the target. More info on weather normalization can be found...
Some resources have the consumption values automatically imported into the GoGreen cockpit, while others require manual input.  How to make a manual editTo make a manual entry, make sure that you are in the Doing section of the cockpit you wish to work in. We recommend having the category ‘All’ selected for ease of use.  The ‘Enter consumption’...
Each month, a new forecast should be submitted for the coming months. This can be done via the Planning pages in PMI. There are 3 simple steps to this process which should be done by the controller or GM. Step 1: Set up a plan Go to Planning setup in the main menu. 1. If you already have a forecast from last month, select ‘Roll forward’.    ...
Data specification sheet The GoGreen Data specification sheet is designed to assist in setting up sustainability data integration with PMI. Using the data specification sheet ensures a seamless and efficient data integration process into the PMI software suite, enabling better environmental management and reporting. These documents provides...
What are the targets in GoGreen?GoGreen cockpits and planning pages show the monthly target consumption values for all resources compared to forecast values. These monthly targets are set for each property to help them meet their long-term sustainability goals. The targets are calculated using the goal distribution tool and cannot be manually...
GoGreen is now a benchmarking option in the regular benchmarking page in PMI. This feature gives you the opportunity to see how you are managing your environmental resources compared to the forecast, as well as your peers, and helps to keep you on track. Here, you can view your GoGreen index, your GoGreen CPOR (cost per occupied room), and can...
The table below explains the calculations used for each of the measurements that make up the GoGreen index. Each action has a different weighting, according to how crucial it is. The more crucial an action is, the greater impact it will have on a department's index score. The column to the far right shows if the action has a high, medium or low...
Navigating the GoGreen Index Dashboard The GoGreen Index Dashboard is accessible from the GoGreen home page by clicking the GoGreen Index tile. It provides a consolidated overview of your property’s sustainability performance across multiple resources. Top Summary Tiles: View your current Index score and its comparison to past performance...
What is sense check mode? Sense check is a feature to help minimize errors in your data. It highlights obvious errors and values that seem extreme so you can review, correct or validate as needed. Sense check appears as an option on pages in PMI that have data tables, including GoGreen planning and Staffing. How to use sense check 1. Tick the box...
What is GoGreen Planning? Planning is a new module that initially supports the GoGreen cockpits with financial elements for environmental targets. This module is prepopulated using the latest Live Forecast and estimates based on historical financial (P&L) data. This article is geared toward department heads, controllers and GMs with budget...
What is GoGreen planning? Planning is a new module that initially supports the GoGreen cockpits with financial elements for environmental targets. This module is prepopulated using the latest Live forecast and estimates based on historical financial (P&L) data. This article is geared toward department heads, controllers and GMs with access...
Navigating the GoGreen Cockpit The GoGreen Cockpit serves as your central hub for monitoring and managing your property’s environmental resource consumption. Unlike other cockpits, its layout is specifically designed to focus on sustainability metrics. Top navigation: Begin by selecting the desired resource category—such as Electricity, Heating,...
See below for external links that provide additional insights into how to reduce consumption and effectively manage your environmental resources. Activities to reduce consumption: EU best practice Peak time demand management: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_demand_management Co²-emission factor:...
Example used is kWh from GoGreen. This shows the quantity of each resource we expect to use. The values come from the Live Forecast when this plan was first created.  It’s fair to say that the values may differ in Live Forecast today, that’s why best practise is to review and submit your values as soon as the plan is created. You can edit the...
Example used is Energy. This shows an estimated average price for each month in the plan and is combined with the usage (multiplied) to get the values. You can edit these prices as required. You can see there is added a price of 1 for gas in most months below. The header for this section includes a basic reminder of where the data shown comes...
The ‘Save changes’ button ensures the changes made to the plan are saved for furture edits. At this stage, the values only exist in this view. To make the plan values (cost of energy and estimated unit prices) available elsewhere, they need to be submitted by clicking the ‘Submit to cockpits’ button. This immediately updates all pages (depts)...
Example used is Energy. This first section in the data table is the plan (budget) numbers in the currency shown in the header. It displays in thousands (K) and in the local currency.These values cannot be edited directly. They reflect values in the next sections based on the formula displayed at the top of the page. We have designed it to ensure...
Example used is Towels & linen Use this chart to see at a glance the general shape of your plan (blue bars) against the comparative period (gray) as pre-set and the level of guest nights planned (purple line). This enables you to see if the cost level decreases when guest nights decreases or displays seasonality as expected. If the chart...
The charts below (Towels & linen and Energy are used in this example), displays whether your plan shows year-on-year (YoY) improvement, considering the activity levels.   The plan values for each month are divided by a relevant productivity measure such as guest nights or hotel area in square meters and compared to the same calculation for...
The diagram below shows the correlation between the formula elements which calculates the unit price to get the plan value you expect.In the diagram here below the forecast comes from kg from GoGreen multiplied by price per kg. Always ensure you are in the department/resource you are responsible for. The same applies when choosing Chemicals, Food...
What is comparative data? It is a set of data that you compare your draft plan against.  The dataset shown under comparative data is also used to calculate other elements of your new plan.  Look for … ‘based on comparative data’… in a section header like this: Comparative data is often just last year’s actual costs for the department and cost...
Example used is Towels & linen. This is the traditional view of a budget with numbers by month.  We have included a total column showing the sum of all months in the plan (which could be anything between 6 & 18 months). The column Avg./month is the sum of all months divided by the number of months in the plan. Note that you...
What is Planning? Planning version setup is where you create draft budgets and forecasts for GoGreen, Room revenue, and Labor costs.  PMI prepopulates this plan using the latest Live forecast and estimates based on historical financial (P&L) data. The forecast can then be reviewed and manually adjusted before it is submitted as the forecast...
Navigating the GoGreen Learning Page The GoGreen Learning Page helps you analyze historical performance and consumption behavior over time. It is designed for deeper insight and reflection, offering visualizations to guide decision-making and identify opportunities for improvement. Here’s how to navigate the key elements: Composition: A doughnut...