{"id":2103,"date":"2015-05-11T13:37:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T12:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2022-09-05T10:27:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T09:27:01","slug":"hotel-indigo-to-open-zero-emmisions-hotel-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/05\/hotel-indigo-to-open-zero-emmisions-hotel-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel Indigo to open zero emmisions hotel in Dubai sustainable development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"InterContinental Hotels Group\" href=\"http:\/\/ihgplc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">IHG<\/a> is to open the Hotel Indigo <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Dubai\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dubai.ae\/en\/pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener nofollow\">Dubai<\/a> in The Sustainable City, a new urban project that is described as &#8220;Dubai\u2019s first sustainable integrated development&#8221;. According to IHG, the hotel will be a Net Zero energy building. All energy will be from solar power. All waste and waste water will be recycled. And a solar powered by will be available to connect guests to downtown Dubai.<\/p>\n<h3>Grab the Essentials<\/h3>\n<p><strong>1:<\/strong>\u00a0The Sustainable City will include homes,\u00a0a green school, solar covered parking lots and an organic farm suppling food to the community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2:<\/strong>\u00a0IHG has 18 hotels in the U.A.E., with a further\u00a010 hotels due to open in the next five years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3:<\/strong> The Sustainable City will cover 46 hectares and have\u00a010,000 trees of 50 different types.<\/p>\n<h3>Dig Deeper<\/h3>\n<p><strong>1:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenlodgingnews.com\/hotel-indigo-development-for-sustainable-city-dubai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read<\/a> the original article on Green Lodging News.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSCDubai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow<\/a> The Sustainable City on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/diamond-developers.ae\/the-sustainable-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Learn<\/a> more on the Sustainable City&#8217;s Website<\/p>\n<h3>Stay Informed of whatever\u2019s essential for you<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IHG is to open a new sustainable boutique hotel in Dubai in a new development opening in 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,139,16,130,287,258,267],"tags":[274,19,85],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hotel Indigo to open zero emmisions hotel in Dubai sustainable development<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"IHG is to open a new sustainable boutique hotel in Dubai in a new development opening in 2016\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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