The 409-room Marriott Hartford Downtown and the 215-room Crown Plaza Hartford Cromwell are among 15 Connecticut hotels, motels and bed & breakfasts sanctioned by the state to promote their “green friendly” lodging.
The 22-story Marriott Hartford at 200 Columbus Blvd., next door to the Connecticut Convention Center, is the largest enrollee in the Connecticut Green Lodging Program run by the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism.
Connecticut is one of 26 states with “green lodging” certification programs, the agencies said.
Lodges participating in the program are redoing operations and to gain a marketing edge through energy savings, water conservation, green cleaning and other environmentally sound practices, agency officials said.
Certified innkeepers are permitted to use green lodging program logos on marketing materials. They also show up under the “eco” listings on Web sites by the American Automobile Association an Expedia, the state says.
In October, DEP and state tourism officials will holda series of three workshops to teach hotels additional practices that will help them get certified. The schedule will be posted on the DEP’s website once details are finalized.
“Growing numbers of consumers, including families and conference planners, want to know that the hotel where they plan to stay is ‘green,’ ‘’ DEP Commissioner Amey Marrella said in a statement Wednesday.
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