Sustainable Swag: Aligning Our Values with Our Merchandise

Domenico Saladino, through his consultancy firm Saladino Umweltprojekte with base in the alpine village of Trin near Chur (Eastern Switzerland), over the years has gained invaluable insights into the business of tourism and hotel management. In this interview he reflects on do’s and don’ts and explains how the sustainability certifications ibex fairstay and EU Ecolabel work. 

Now that Amazon’s “Alexa” has become a daily partner in our lives, with 83 million-plus users and more than 100 million devices sold, proving we have accepted face and voice recognition, artificial and predictive intelligence, as well as following directions from the Google Maps lady, it’s about time we accept robots making our latte and autonomous vehicles delivering our food.  The world of automation and robotics has jumped off engineering drawing boards and moved into restaurant dining rooms and kitchens. Not to mention the halls of congress and the cross-hairs of legislative policy wonks. The time has come to add Food Technology to the growing list of priorities in your food company’s strategic plans.

Is the environment important? More than ever! In all types of commercial activity, there is a growing recognition of the important role of sustainable development as an economic driver. For the first time in 10 years of publishing its Global Risk Report, the World Economic Forum lists environmental risks in its Top 5.