Leon Kaye recently interviewed Eric Ricuarte, principal of Greenview LLC, a sustainability consultancy that focuses on the hospitality industry. We discussed on what hotels are doing on the sustainability front and the complexities involved with CSR reporting.

On the south side of Sofia’s city center stands an old red house that stands out on a small side street. The Red House, once home to one of Bulgaria’s leading sculptors, had been in disrepair for years. But now Andrey Nikolov’s beloved home is a cultural center, art gallery, café, and hotel.

Here are the facts when you stay in a hotel – you still are at a place where they are leaving the lights on way too much. The waste in water and food is huge. These hotels still require a massive build-out or a remodeling. And we have all experienced the disappointment of “looks great on a website, is a hole on arrival.”