A lot has happened in the last 12 months for the Alveston House team. Apart from the obvious such as extensive refurbishment, the winning of an AA Rosette for the Carriages Restaurant, the launch of our brand new website and our online booking feature, we have also gone GREEN.

We finally realised the impact of what we do as an organisation with regard to the environment. We aren’t planning to lecture our guests on how they can become eco-warriors but we have looked at every aspect of our business and re-evaluated the way we run the hotel on a day to day basis in order to become a ‘greener’ hotel.

The Green Tourism badge that we proudly display on our website isn’t there just to make our home page look colourful – we actually believe that our guests genuinely care if we are trying to be more environmentally friendly. Take, for example, our attitude to recycling. 1 year ago we were making a token effort to not waste paper and have our bottles collected and recycled. Now EVERY item that can be recycled is recycled. It’s really encouraging to see our staff get behind our policies.

We would be really interested to hear your thoughts on whether you think it is important for hotels to do what they can for the environment – for instance, would you go so far as to change your travel plans if a hotel chose not to be environmental?