Meetings & Events Zone
The ICARUS Meetings & Events Zone ...is designed to
provide best practice guidance on creating sustainable conference, meetings and events programmes
give you the tools to reduce waste and emissions from your conference, meetings & events programmes
ITM is working alongside Eventia and other organisations to promote best sustainable practice in this area of the market as today's business travel managers are being given increasing responsibility for procurement and policy of other travel related activities such as conferences, meetings and events. Visit www.eventia.org.uk/CSR/OneFuture.asp for more information.
Read our latest toolkit paper on the greening of meetings & events.
WiN WiN
ITM is also promoting the WiN -WiN campaign as part of our ICARUS sustainability programme. WiN-WiN or "Waste Not Want Not" builds on the principles of post-second world resourceful prudence - at a time when limiting the use of food and fuel was of paramount importance to the survival of the nation. At ICARUS we implore those of you creating meetings, events and conferences to adopt the WiN WiN logo and principle and to communicate it to employees. This is particularly relevant to events where attendance is not a business mandate. We estimate that in the travel, meetings and hospitality industry there are in excess of 10% no-shows at events which results in more than 10% waste of food. By encouraging WiN WiN principles we can reduce this waste - and therefore costs to our industry and clients.
The Waste Not Want Not (WiN -WiN) Principles
To promote Waste Not Want Not principles at your event click here to download a copy of this logo to use in your event literature.
By subscribing to WiN-WiN we are encouraging delegates at our event to:
a.) Only commit to the event if there is real intention to attend
b.) Advise us if there are parts of the event you will not be able to attend - so we can cater accordingly
c.) Advise as soon as possible if cancelling an event to allow for catering adjustments
d.) Make it a priority to attend once booked
We are also committing, as event organisers, to:
a.) Limiting the amount of food to those who have registered and not over catering
b.) Providing leftover food to appropriate homeless charities where possible
c.) Turning off lights and heating/AC in venues when rooms are not in use
