Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Rajendra Tiwari Vs Union of India & Others dated 25/03/2025. The matter related to the illegal operation of Hotel Indana Palace at the distance of 95 meters from the boundary of Nahargarh Wildlife Sanctuary and commercial …
Everybody travels and everybody stays at hotels one time or another but travelling comes with a steep carbon as well as water footprint. For example, every day you stay at a hotel, you might burn enough fossil fuels to release more than 33 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. …
A group of international hotels is collaborating on a groundbreaking initiative to standardize carbon accounting in the hospitality industry. The Carbon Measurement Working Group aims to reach a consensus on a single methodology for calculating carbon footprints and consistent metrics for communicating emissions. Currently, carbon measurement metrics vary widely which …
A hotel in orbit, lunar sightseeing flights and luxury rides into the cosmos -- all are part of Russia's vision to ensure it is not left behind in the growing space tourism industry. Russian firms unveiled their plans at the country's premiere air show this week at Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, …
This monsoon, top hotels such as The Leela, Taj and ITC Maratha are using their roof-tops for a different purpose – for rain-water harvesting. The project to use roof-tops to collect rain-water has been implemented in Leela's hotels across Mumbai, Kovalam, Bangalore, Goa, Udaipur and Chennai, said Mr Ravindra Kumar …
Plans to build two new hotels in South Africa's flagship Kruger National Park have sparked a racial fight rekindling the country's troubled apartheid past. South Africa National Parks (SANParks) wants to construct the four-star safari lodges inside Kruger to attract new visitors who are willing to spend a little more …
The Rajasthan Government has started consultations with operators of private hotels around Ranthambhore National Park in Sawai Madhopur and Sariska Tiger Reserve in Alwar to finalise the quantum of cess to be imposed by the end of the year, as directed by the Union Ministry of Forest and Environment. According …
On World Environment Day this year I was at a five-star hotel. It was among the older ones in Bengaluru. The hotel had organized a week-long initiative to green Bengaluru. The idea was hackneyed. Of course, we need as many trees as we can get to absorb the carbon we …
Animals are increasingly finding it difficult to move from the Corbett Tiger Reserve to the adjacent Ramnagar Forest Division in Uttarakhand. Reason: unregulated tourism along their route. A study in December 2009 found 49 tourist resorts exist along the route, called the Kosi river corridor, and 12 more are under …
WILDLIFE tourism’s underbelly was exposed in Bandhavgarh National Park last month when a vehicle with tourists craving for a nocturnal sighting of the tiger hit the animal. The influential tourists had managed to stay in the park after it closed. The animal died a few hours later in front of …
Among fast growing developing countries, India is distinctive for the role of the service sector. However, sceptics have raised doubts about both the quality and sustainability of the increase in service sector activity and its implications for economic development. Using National Accounts Statistics and cross-county data, show that the growth …
This latest assessment of the solar water heater market in India provides an insight into the current market and projects realizable market potential till the year 2022. Finds considerable gap between the projected potential & targets set by JNNSM and suggests a closer scrutiny of the targets set. The objective …
Guidelines for categorization of hotels, requirement of consent under Water & Air Act and pollution control measures/treatment facility for waste water.
Port Blair bench allows resort that may endanger Jarawas THE Calcutta High Court has cleared the construction of a holiday resort near the forest area reserved for the threatened Jarawa tribe in South Andamans. The Andaman administration had appealed against building the resort saying it was within the five-kilometre buffer …
1978: Fomento buys land in Taleigaon village. Requests for adjacent land parcels 1980: State issues notification to acquire land in Taleigaon village and hands over the land including land parcel
The Supreme Court yesterday imposed a fine of Rs. 50,000 each on a hotelier and manager of a hotel for using loudspeakers in breach of the Supreme Court order with regard to noise pollution. Two persons M. Mendis and C.S. Nonis, manager and proprietor of Hotel Randiya, Koralawella, Moratuwa who …
The Supreme Court yesterday (2) imposed a fine of Rs. 50,000 each on two hoteliers for making noise using amplifiers violating the sound pollution guidelines. The Bench comprising Chief Justice, Sarath N. Silva, Justices, Andrew Somawansa and Jagath Balapatabendi imposed the fines on the owners of Randiya Hotel, Moratuwa, Michael …
people living in Sipasarubali near the coast in Puri, Orissa, are under threat. Waves have swept away parts of a beach in this popular tourist spot. While local residents are perturbed and visitors are avoiding the shore, officials seem to be in denial. The district administration has put up sand …
