Over 130 Hotels throughout MesoAmerican Reef Following Environmental Practices

Written By: intern Edited By: intern

March 12, 2016

Updated: May 8, 2025

3 min read

Since 2007, MARTI has been working with hotels in the Riviera Maya to implement positive environmental practices. What started with 12 hotels, MARTI now works with over 130 throughout the Riviera Maya, Cozumel and Cancun. To bring 130 hotels together under the same effort to implement environmental best practices is a big achievement.

Much of MARTI’s work with the hotels has focused on environmental awareness among staff at all levels, including managers, supervisors, cooks, waiters, and maids. The training includes teaching good practice around water, energy, and recycling use. Trained hotel staff have been using these lessons at work and also at home with their families. Small incremental changes are easy like turning off a light or closing the water faucet all the way.

It has been a priority for MARTI to demonstrate the results and impacts of applying these good environmental practices both for the benefit of the hotels and the training program. To this end, it was instrumental to collect data on all consumption before and after MARTIโ€™s training. Thus, it was possible for MARTI and the hotels to measure the amount of water, electricity, gas LP, and solid waste generation that has been avoided by the participating hotels because of this training.

The results of this analysis have been very rewarding.ย  Together, MARTI hotels have significantly reduced their consumption in the following areas:

CATEGORY % of REDUCTION (2007-2014) AMOUNT SAVED
Water 21.68 % 22,041,622.47 Mยณ
Energy 18.12 % 673,056,686.11 kWh
Gas 16.9 % 44,280,045.14 Lts

 

RESIDUE AMOUNT SENT TO RECYCLING
PET 88,132,517.39 Kg
HDPE 24,533,131.11 Kg
Aluminum 21,028,398.09 Kg
Glass 353,978,034.55 Kg
Paper and cardboard 180,493,750.29 Kg
Steal 24,533,131.11 Kg
Vegetable Oil 43,809,162.69 Lts

Desde Inicios del 2007 el componente hotelero de MARTI comenzรณ a trabajar con los hoteles de la Riviera Maya, iniciando operaciones con 12 hoteles. A lo largo de los aรฑos el trabajo y รกnimos de la industria hotelera en Quintana Roo se fue intensificando, logrando captar un total de 130 participando en el programa y distribuidos en Riviera Maya, Cozumel y Cancรบn. El incluir 130 hoteles dentro de un mismo esfuerzo de implementar buenas prรกcticas ambientales representa por sรญ mismo un gran logro.

Gran parte de la labor de MARTI con los hoteles fue el trabajo y concientizaciรณn del personal en todos los niveles, Gerentes, supervisores, cocineros, meseros, camaristas. Esta concientizaciรณn incluyรณ lecciones en las buenas prรกcticas sobre cรณmo el cuidado del agua, la energรญa, el reciclaje, podรญan traducirse en beneficios para ellos mismos y para sus familias, desde apagar un foco o cerrar la llave de agua.

Sin embargo era muy importante poder constatar con nรบmeros y cifras sobre los resultado e impactos de aplicar estas buenas prรกcticas ambientales. Para este fin fue fundamental el registro e historial de todos los consumos, antes y despuรฉs de MARTI.ย  De esta forma se pudo medir la cantidad de agua, energรญa elรฉctrica, gas LP y residuos que se evitaron generar por medio de la participaciรณn de los hoteles en el componente Hotelero de MARTI.

Los resultados de este anรกlisis de datos ha sido muy enriquecedor dado a que los hoteles MARTI en conjunto lograron reducir considerablemente sus consumos en los siguientes rubros:

RUBRO % DE REDUCCIร“N (2007-2014) CANTIDAD AHORRADA
Agua 21.68 % 22,041,622.47 Mยณ
Energรญa Elรฉctrica 18.12 % 673,056,686.11 kWh
Gas LP 16.9 % 44,280,045.14 Lts

ย 

RESIDUO CANTIDAD ENVIADA A RECICLAJE
PET 88,132,517.39 Kg
PEAD 24,533,131.11 Kg
Aluminio 21,028,398.09 Kg
Vidrio 353,978,034.55 Kg
Papel y Cartรณn 180,493,750.29 Kg
Acero 24,533,131.11 Kg
Aceite Vegetal 43,809,162.69 Lts

 

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