Are Hotels and Short-Term Rentals Understating Emissions?

The owners of a short-stay apartment rental firm, which operates over 4,000 units in 18 cities in Europe, had been calculating the greenhouse gas emissions across its business for years. However, they recently realized their measurements missed key sources of emissions.

Niko Karstikko, co-founder and CEO of Bob W, told Skift that the company, like many in the hotel sector, used the hospitality carbon measurement initiative (HCMI).

“The HCMI was created as a common standard that the sector can use and to have some kind of common denominator and that is great,” Karstikko said.

“At the same time it was clear that our figures missed so many aspects of things that we create emissions on. We were not getting the full picture.”

The World Sustainability Hospitality Alliance created the HCMI