Alto Hotel


Prior to certification, Alto Hotel had already committed to reducing their carbon footprint through offsetting emissions from electricity usage, fuel and flights directly with their service providers. NoCO2 certification furthers the hotel's strong commitment to sustainability and demonstrates ongoing efforts to contribute to a healthier environment.  

The Alto Hotel on Bourke has enhanced its reputation as one of Melbourne's leading hotels in guest satisfaction as well as innovation by becoming the Australia's first carbon neutral hotel. Some food & beverage style hotels, cabins and cottages have offset carbon from some of their services or provide an option for guests to pay for offsets, however Alto is the first city hotel to provide all of its services and facilities as carbon neutral within its pricing.

The Alto Hotel is a leader in sustainable tourism

"We have already been recognised as a leader in sustainable tourism yet wanted to ensure we continue to innovate and show that it is possible to have guilt free travel without compromising on quality or service," said Gary Stickland, General Manager of Alto Hotel on Bourke."Instead of simply paying someone to make our environmental footprint go away we have ensured that we have minimised our output as much as practical first, then made the decision to offset the remaining carbon that we have not been able to remove from our operations" he said. "All of our environmental initiatives have been made by considering our guests first. This means that some guests are not even aware that they have stayed in a sustainable hotel as we have designed our programs to effectively be behind the scenes and not require any effort from our guests, unless they want to be more involved." The hotel provides the key ingredient for the potential to have a low carbon holiday or business trip to Melbourne.

To achieve NoCO2 certification, Alto Hotel undertook a comprehensive carbon emissions audit that captured and quantified all of the hotel's greenhouse gas emissions. The audit included emissions from fuel and energy consumption onsite; staff travel, water and waste usage and flights taken by Alto Hotel staff. In addition, the embodied emissions in the hotel's assets and expenses items were also audited to capture indirect emissions from supply chain purchases and any products bought, used and sold through the hotel.

Visit online at http://www.altohotel.com.au/.

Buzz Products

At Buzz we are perpetually on a global hunt for inspiration for you project. We scale mountains of publications, weave our way through the web of blogs, navigate the maze of consumer retail and seem to be seen at all the right fairs - all in  the pursuit of pearls of inspiration. It has been said that a mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. We think it pays to stay ahead.

Buzz stands out in it's offering of custom design. Using your brief as the roadmap, our creative approach is fluid in the knowledge that we create meaningful and original product solutions which will capture the pure essence of your brand. In fact, our designers delight in exploring the potential of possibility, so there is little reason to hold back your desire.


Visit online at http://www.buzzproducts.com/.

Icetrek

Eric Philips is Icetrek's founder and manager. He has hard-earned expeditionary experience in the Arctic and Antarctica, having skied to both the North and South Poles numerous times as well as completing major expeditions to Greenland, Spitsbergen, Iceland, Ellesmere Island and the South Patagonian Icecap.

Eric is the inventor of Flexi Ski Bindings. Fast becoming the standard for the most demanding of polar expeditions, Flexi Ski Bindings have taken skiers to the ends of the Earth and across the world's icy wastes.  

Headed by Eric Philips, our network of world-class guides has skied to the North and South Poles, climbed Everest and traversed the world's largest icecaps. We have real expeditionary experience in wilderness extremes as diverse as Antarctica, Greenland, Patagonia, Alaska, Iceland, Siberia and the Canadian High Arctic and we can take you there. We also offer unique trekking expeditions to remote Australian deserts.

Visit online at http://www.icetrek.com/.

Jet Worldwide

Jet Worldwide has been serving the community since 1987.

We specialize in International and Domestic transport services and have built our reputation on personalised customer service in the delivery of express documents, parcels and freight.

Our goal is to ensure the fastest possible transportation of your important documents, parcels and freight within Australia, New Zealand and around the World.

Because of our comprehensive experience and proven expertise in all aspects of transport, we are flexible enough to provide a personal and cost effective service to all our customers.

We have the geographical reach in more than 180 countries to ensure safe and reliable deliveries around the world.

Visit online at http://www.jetworldwide.com.au/.

Mercure Meetings

Mercure Hotels offer quality 3.5-4 star accommodation to make your stay away from home as comfortable and convenient as possible.

Mercure is part of the Accor group, a European leader and major global player in travel, tourism and corporate services.

Mercure Hotels have engaged the Carbon Reduction Institute (CRI) to consult on the group’s Carbon Neutral conferencing program launched in 2008 – ‘Mercure Meetings’.  To enable Mercure Hotels to offset the emissions from their conferences, CRI provided the hotels with a conference calculator that takes into account emissions from energy usage such as heating, lighting and cooking; as well as food and stationery provided at the conferences.

Providing those calculators will give the Mercure Hotels a significant competitive edge over other, emissions intensive conference venue providers.

Visit online at http://www.accorhotels.com.au/mercuremeetings/default.aspx.