5 keys to be a 100% sustainable hotel.
El turismo sostenible es tendencia. Cada vez hay más turistas que buscan hoteles respetuosos con el medio ambiente. Este nuevo perfil de viajero es consciente de que la actividad turística produce unos niveles de contaminación muy altos. Y es que el turismo es el responsable directo del 5% de las emisiones de efecto invernadero del mundo según el estudio Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. De hecho, muchos hoteles se están transformando para estar en sintonía con esta tendencia y para respetar el Acuerdo de París emitido por la Comisión Europea en la que se pretende reducir un 90% las emisiones de gases invernadero por habitación para el año 2050. Reducir el porcentaje de estas emisiones emitidas por las empresas hoteleras a causa de su alto consumo de energía en aire acondicionado y/o calefacción así como agua en habitaciones y restaurantes, entre un largo etcétera, es el reto que mucho hoteles se están proponiendo en los planes estratégicos de este año. Los hoteles sostenibles son el futuro del sector turístico. ¿Pero a qué nos referimos exactamente con hoteles ecofriendly? ¿En qué se diferencian de otros? Como cualquier hotel, los sostenibles buscan la rentabilidad económica y obtener beneficios, pero generando el menor impacto posible en el entorno que los rodea. Estos hoteles del futuro son sabedores de que son responsables de cuidar del medio ambiente y ponen medidas alcanzables y realistas para conseguirlo. A continuación te contamos cómo ser un hotel 100% sostenible con unas medidas muy útiles que puedes implantar en tu empresa hotelera y que marcarán una gran diferencia. ¿Nuestro consejo? Que seas capaz de reunir todos los estándares de reconocimiento GSTC (Global Sustainable Tourism Council) y comunicarlo de forma clara en todos tus canales de comunicación: web, redes sociales, páginas de reserva online, etc. Da un paso hacia el futuro ecologista del sector turístico y únete a la revolución del turismo sostenible. 1. Eliminar los plásticos desechables. Los mares y océanos están pidiendo ayuda. Más del 70% de la basura que hay en el agua procede de productos de un solo uso como vasos, pajitas, botellas de bebidas… Aunque la Comisión Europea ya ha aprobado una nueva normativa para el 2021 que prohibirá los plásticos de un solo uso, podemos empezar a eliminarlos en nuestro hotel: prescinde de las pajitas de plástico y agitadores de bebidas en el buffet, sustituye los amenities de gel y champú por dispensadores rellenables y cambia los cepillos de dientes de plástico por otros fabricados con madera 100% biodegradables. 2. Reducir el gasto de agua en todas las estancias del hotel. El agua es un recurso vital para todos, de ahí que seamos responsables y evitemos el malgasto. ¿Sabías que un huésped puede llegar a desperdiciar entre 7 y 11 litros de agua si se deja el grifo abierto mientras se lava los dientes? Es posible optimizar el gasto de agua instalando economizadores de agua en las duchas y grifos del baño y también asegurándote de que todos tus WC cuentan con una descarga dual y ningún grifo pierde agua. Además de reducir el gasto de agua en habitaciones, es necesario controlar la cantidad de litros de agua que necesitamos para regar las plantas del hotel. Apuesta por plantas que necesiten poca agua o que sean capaces de adaptarse al clima donde se encuentra tu alojamiento. 3. Alimentos sostenibles y de Km0. Es posible ser sostenible en tu zona de restauración. La elección de los productos que sirvas a tus huéspedes dirá mucho de tu nivel de concienciación con el medioambiente. Escoger productos de Km0 o de proximidad significa que la distancia entre el lugar de producción y su lugar de origen, tu hotel, es inferior a 100 km de distancia. Es decir, se trata de productos locales que ayudan a mantener activa la economía de la zona y que reducen las emisiones contaminantes al necesitar un transporte mínimo. Otra forma de ser un hotel 100% sostenible es eliminando el desperdicio de comida. Conciencia a tus huéspedes que disponer de un buffet libre no es sinónimo de dejar comida en el plato. Para evitar el desperdicio alimentario puedes analizar el consumo de todos tus productos para adaptar la producción a esas necesidades, no reponer el buffet en los últimos 20 minutos antes de su cierre o colocar al principio del recorrido aquellos alimentos que necesitamos que se consuman con mayor rapidez. 4. Controlar el gasto de energético. Según los datos del Instituto Tecnológico Hotelero (ITH), los hoteles españoles gastan más de 1.230 millones de euros al año en energía, por lo que apostar por unas medidas de eficiencia energética es totalmente necesario. Usa bombillas LED para reducir hasta un 50% de energía por punto de luz, instala sistemas de apertura tarjeta-llave en las habitaciones para que al salir todas las luces se desconecten y apuesta por los sensores de movimiento para los pasillos de las habitaciones. Los paneles solares también pueden ser un recurso muy útil para aprovechar la luz natural ya que su energía puede usarse para los sistemas de calefacción de la zona de piscina y jacuzzi. 5. Usar textiles sostenibles en las camas. La basura que llega al mar es capaz de afectar a alrededor de 600 especies marinas. Muchos animales ingieren o se enredan en los plásticos que desechamos en los mares y océanos. De ahí, que vestir las camas de un hotel con textiles fabricados a partir de botellas de plástico recuperadas de los mares sea una forma de convertirse en un hotel 100% sostenible. La línea Ocean de Vayoil Textil, apuesta por el respeto medioambiental y cuida todos los procesos que se llevan a cabo en la fabricación de los textiles para dar como resultado una lencería de cama reciclada con la máxima calidad. Unirse al turismo sostenible es un paso que debemos dar si queremos tener un futuro fructífero en este sector. Es hora de buscar soluciones y estrategias que ayuden a enfrentarnos a los retos medioambientales que tenemos en la actualidad. El Planeta nos necesita ¿le ayudamos?
Vayoil Textil expands its bath collection
We present our novelties in bath linen, both in bathrobes and towels. All of them manufactured, as always, with the best raw materials. Those raw materials that give our garments a high degree of comfort, perfectly differentiated by the guests of our customers. In bathrobes, we have incorporated two new designs of fabrics to make bathrobes, which comes to complete an already complete range of garments for the bathroom. These new fabrics, Dots and Turquesa, are made of 100% pure cotton fibers that favor absorption. Always looking to offer our customers differentiating products that bring distinction to their establishments, we offer these fabrics that have a very modern touch thanks to their designs. In addition, with the same illusion of offering innovative products, we present a new way of making towels: terry towels with two heights. These towels are manufactured on special looms that, with the same base as traditional towels, allow us to make designs with different towel heights, thus multiplying the design possibilities. Our company's bath linens not only stand out for their maximum absorption power, but also for their softness and fluffiness, making the guest feel wrapped up in them. Now, in addition, we provide an innovative and differentiating design to the garments, which gives the room a unique and innovative touch..,
WHO'S WHO IN THE EXPORT BUSINESS IN THE VALENCIAN COMMUNITY
Lingerie for hotels around the world with Valencian seal Las Provincias has published its special supplement "WHO IS WHO" in the Valencian Economy. This special contains information about the main companies that export from the Valencian Community. Our company appears in this supplement that collects and puts a face to the companies that give importance to the export of their products. Vayoil Textil has doubled its foreign turnover in two years to account for 15 percent of the total, being its goal in a few years between 30 and 40 percent. Exports are important for the company, but we must not forget that Spain is the second world power in tourism.
We are launching a new category: The SHOES
The company, with the focus on the hotel user, always trying to anticipate their needs to achieve a satisfactory and complete user experience, has introduced a new category of linen for hospitality and collectivities, which so far did not exist: the gowns. Vayoil Textil has a department dedicated to improving its product, the "Technical Product Office". This department has been in charge of preparing this new launching. This new product category is aimed at 4 to 5 star hotels, the company's target, and has presented a complete collection made of various materials; linen-cotton, cotton-polyester and different microfibers. Each one of us, as well as the guests of each hotel, the first thing that any client who travels does is to get settled in the room and, precisely the bathrobes are the garments that allow guests to enjoy that feeling of comfort, that feeling of being at home. This category covers the need for comfort that the bathrobe, once used in its drying function, cannot cover. In addition to the success of a product like the bathrobe, the bathrobe is wet after use and can no longer perform the function of a robe that many people need, and the company has decided to launch this new category. At a time when the guest experience is the central element for any hotel, this product reinforces this approach. This new category was presented at the last edition of Hostelco and was very well received by customers and visitors who came to our stand.
Hostelco 2018
Vayoil Textil prepares its participation in a new edition of Hostelco 2018 in which it will present its new innovative proposals of linen for the international hotel industry, among which stand out its new bathroom and room lines, and its commitment to product customization. Through a magnificent stand (Hall 6 D431) and under the umbrella of the concept Tranquility for the customer, understood as comfort for the guest, and confidence of the hotelier or restaurateur who can rest assured that their product and the company behind it will not fail. Our control of the entire production process from start to finish, and the commitment to work only with trusted partners allow us to offer a high quality textile product with a guarantee in all its elements. When a hotel chooses Vayoil Textil, it is safe, you will receive the sheet, towel, bathrobe or table linen on time and as ordered and you will have the best after-sales service. Hostelco News In Vayoil Textil we work as a trend hunter capable of making our textile dream come true while adapting it to the present. We study, research and incorporate trends in our creations because trend and design go hand in hand with the needs of the hotelier. Our credentials are clear: we are a company focused on our customers and their needs. The contract sector in particular, and the decoration sector in general, are increasingly mimicking each other and the fashion sector. Both drink from the same sources of inspiration and become each other's reference to generate what are called design must-haves, which are soaking like a thin layer of oil all our environments: homes, hotels, restaurants and the clothes we wear. For Hostelco we will present a new proposal of lingerie united under the concept of bath line with towels with towel design at various heights of terry and bathrobes new models in two fabrics. The bed line will be accompanied by new desires and customization possibilities. If there is one thing that makes Vayoil Textil stand out, it is because we work to our customer's needs, but we are also able to do it for large consumptions. At its stand we will see new innovative garments, the result of the work of the company's R+D+I department, which spends a lot of time and investment in order to offer the best textile product. A unique proposal in which quality, real innovation, transparency, experience and respect for our customers give meaning to our work. In the words of its manager, Luis Esteve: "Vayoil Textil implies that we serve in quality and on time, that we have production capacity and infrastructure, that we care about our customers and that is why we invest in R+D+i. When you like something, it shows, and we like our work".
Deployment of activities on the occasion of HIP 2018
Vayoil Textil participates one more year in Hospitality Innovation Planet (HIP) and it will do it in a big way besides showing its textile novelties for this year 2018 in its stand (C180 Hall 3) the textile company will collaborate in different complementary activities. Vayoil Textil will travel again to HIP willing to show its products and knowledge to the sector. Through its stand we will be able to see its most outstanding novelties for 2018 governed by a common denominator quality, design, and the innovation of its proposals. In addition, the textile company will participate in a series of complementary activities that aim to get closer to visitors and offer them knowledge and experiences. Specifically, on the Vayoil Textil stand on the first day of the fair there will be a workshop for housekeepers entitled "How to dress the bed with a duvet cover in an agile, simple, comfortable and healthy way". The company has a very important and consolidated relationship of years with this sector so important in the hotel and so closely related to the Vayoil product. On Tuesday 20, Vayoil Textil's managers will participate in the round table "The experience in the room and its protagonists" and on Wednesday will participate in the slot on "Hotel Textile". In these meetings the company will try to offer contrasted data based on its experience that will be useful to the establishments. The textile company has been part of the Advisory Board since the beginning of this fair. HIP is focused as a center for innovation, trends and new business models. With the aim of helping the industry to identify the needs and challenges they face. It is an evolution of Horeq to go a step further and to achieve this it needs the collaboration of the sector's own reference companies, as is the case of Vayoil Textil. The event will bring together three areas: Bar&Co, Restaurant Trends and Hotel World as well as a Hospitality 4.0 congress that will address the digital transformation of the sector in addition to strategies to improve competitiveness. This entire area will allow professionals to learn about the latest developments in the different sectors of the industry: hotel, restaurant, bar, collective, delivery/take away and traveler services. In the words of Luis Esteve, Manager of Vayoil Textil: "We travel to HIP looking forward to working and collaborating with this event, which in its second edition is approached with very optimistic perspectives after last year's success".
We repeat as part of the HIP 2018 advisory board.
As in last year's edition, our company will once again be a member of the Hospitality Innovation Planet (HIP) Advisory Board. We work side by side with the event organizers to agree on possible improvements to satisfy the professionals who visit the event. Among other things, on the table are issues related to Innovation, Sustainability, CSR, Management, Strategies,... HIP will be held from February 19 to 21 at IFEMA. www.expohip.com
Enthusiasm, perseverance and effort
We face the new year with enthusiasm, passion for our work, and with great desire to continue working for our customers and, aligning ourselves with them, for the guest staying in any of the hundreds of establishments dressed by Vayoil Textil throughout the world. Following our firm commitment to R+D+i, which has been reflected in the incorporation of new machinery and the expansion of our production center, the company continues to grow, both in number of customers and in production capacity. And this growth is the result of a job well done, the result of our enthusiasm, perseverance and effort, and a business strategy based on prudent growth in which specialization and commitment to product quality, which has allowed us to position ourselves as a supplier of high-end and luxury hotels. There are already more than 600 customers all over the world who find in the Vayoil Textil product the security they need. Our control of the entire production process from beginning to end, and our commitment to work only with reliable partners, allow us to offer a high quality textile product with a guarantee in all its elements. When a hotel chooses Vayoil Textil, they are on the safe side, they will receive the sheet, towel, bathrobe or table linen on time and just as they ordered it, with no surprises. The company's work is focused on strengthening its international presence. Last year we doubled our foreign turnover to 15% of our total sales, and this year's figures will also be good. Our main foreign markets are increasingly demanding Vayoil Textil products in their hotels, and we believe that in four or five years our sales volume outside our borders will reach between 30% and 40%. The company offers a wide range of products that is growing every year as a result of investment in innovation and development of materials and applications of fabrics that result in a solid company, prepared and above all aware of its role in the market. The illusion, the constancy and the effort are the characteristics that define our company and our human team, is our motto. The illusion to grow, to know our clients, their needs, to create what they really need to give the best comfort to their guests and the best image for the hotel. And seeing our clients grow is a great satisfaction. But to grow it takes perseverance and effort, a lot of it. And in Vayoil we are masters in this. Therefore, it is no coincidence that Vayoil Textil knows how to anticipate the needs of the market, creating customized and specialized products and taking on new challenges with passion.
Vayoil Textil equips the Intercontinental Hotel in Madrid
We have equipped the Intercontinental Hotel in Madrid. It is a 5 star hotel located in the Palacio de la Castellana belonging to the InterContinental Hotels & Resorts chain of luxury hotels present in all major cities in the world. Vayoil Textil has been the supplier of bed and dining room linen for this establishment for more than 7 years. On the European continent alone, the company currently serves more than 600 customers in several countries.
Vayoil Textil équipe l'hôtel Intercontinental de Madrid
We have equipped the Intercontinental Hotel in Madrid. It is a 5-star hotel located at the Palais des Congrès in Madrid, belonging to the luxury hotel chain InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, which is present in all the major cities of the world. Vayoil Textil has been supplying bed and table linen to this establishment for more than 7 years. On the European continent, the company is currently serving more than 600 customers spread in different countries. Our Valencian company, Spanish leader in linen supply for four and five-star hotels, has been responsible for equipping the 302 rooms as well as the restaurant, during the renovation carried out by the establishment. The company has developed the entire line of high quality cotton products in order to meet the international standards required by the chain. This line has been customized in image and colors by the company. In addition, we have developed a line of unique products, such as fine towels and superior bed linens. According to Luis Esteve, Director of Vayoil Textil: "As suppliers in a highly dynamic and demanding sector, our entrepreneurial strategy has been one of specialization, product quality choice and environmental respect. This way of working has allowed us to position ourselves as a high-end and luxury hotel supplier. To get there, the company has, for several years, relied on investment in research and development (R&D&I) and investment in machines that allow us to improve processes and become more competitive". During 2016, the company made investments worth 1.2 million euros to expand its production and logistics center located in Otinyent (Valencia), in addition to the purchase of a packaging line that reaffirms the company's desire to strengthen its industrial character. Currently part of a strategic plan, the company's work is also focused on strengthening its international presence.