Hotels certified under the LEED system, increase their income

In the study "the Impact of LEED certification on the operation of the hotel" compared 93 514 certified and non-certified buildings in the United States. It was found that in hotels with LEED certification was substantially higher average daily rates and yield per room.

The hotel industry has adopted the idea of environmental sustainability and several hotels have already or are in the process of obtaining a certificate or has received the status of the LEED program. The question was whether the economic value of certification. It turned out that the answer is absolutely unequivocal "Yes," said Rohit Verma, Professor in the School of hotel administration Cornell and co-author of the study.

In the two years since receiving the certificate, the average daily rate for LEED hotels was $20 more than the regular hotels.

Source: greenevolution.ru