SL Heritance Hotels secures ISO 50001 certification
View(s):Heritance Hotels, Sri Lanka’s leading chain of resorts, has secured the ISO 50001 certification for energy management systems which have been effectively implemented at each resort. It is the first resort to get this certification, the company said.
ISO 50001 specifies the requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and improving an energy management system. The purpose is to enable an organization to follow a systematic approach in achieving continual improvement of energy performance, including energy efficiency, energy security, energy use and consumption.
Heritance Hotels said in a media release that it has taken numerous initiatives in ensuring that energy consuming assets have been managed effectively and energy conserving technology has been implemented at each resort. Heritance Ahungalla, one of Sri Lanka’s leading beach resorts, was the first hotel in Sri Lanka to receive the ISO 50001:2011 certification. Heritance Ayurveda Maha Gedara, was the first net metered hotel in Sri Lanka and Heritance Tea Factory and Heritance Kandalama were the first in the hospitality industry to utilize a biomass gasifier as a renewable energy source.
Malin Hapugoda, Managing Director, Aitken Spence Hotels, said, “Sustainable tourism is about re-focusing and adapting. A balance must be found between limits and usage so that continuous changing, monitoring and planning ensure that tourism can be managed. This requires thinking long-term and realising that change is often cumulative, gradual and irreversible.”
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