{"id":23749,"date":"2018-01-31T15:24:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T14:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=23749"},"modified":"2018-02-06T15:45:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T14:45:54","slug":"pata-food-waste-tourism-buffet-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2018\/01\/pata-food-waste-tourism-buffet-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"PATA launches ‘BUFFET’ hotel food waste campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

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P<\/span>ATA, along with project partner,\u00a0Scholars of Sustenance<\/a>\u00a0(Thai-SOS) and knowledge partner\u00a0Futouris<\/a>, has launched the\u00a0BUFFET Campaign<\/a>\u00a0to raise awareness of food waste in our industry to drive positive change.<\/p>\n

The BUFFET (Building an Understanding For Food Excess in Tourism) Initiative is about bringing together a coalition of industry partners and PATA members to create and implement a campaign that challenges our industry, particularly the hospitality sector, to reduce food waste to landfill.<\/p>\n

PATA CEO Dr. Mario Hardy said, \u201cWith significant growth expected in the industry and especially the Asia Pacific region in the near future, greater waste can be expected. Our aim is to curb that waste by bringing the tourism and hospitality sectors together to reduce our impact on the planet by reducing our industry\u2019s food waste to landfill. Reducing food waste will reduce the cost for operators in the industry while benefiting the environment at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The main activities in this initiative include the raising awareness of food waste in our industry and the creation of Asia-Pacific focused resources for hoteliers and other hospitality and tourism professionals to drive positive change and ultimately reduce their food waste to landfill. While this initiative aims to impact our industry at large, will be focusing additional efforts on hotels and food and beverage providers in Asia, and specific hotel properties in Bangkok in our Bangkok Hotels Project, with the expertise of Thai-SOS.<\/p>\n

PATA is seeking to engage further with hotels who would like to reduce their food waste to\u00a0landfill, hotels already implementing food waste solutions, potential partners and sponsors, as well as those who would like to help us in raising awareness and building a better understanding for food excess in tourism.<\/p>\n

With increasing concern of the world for climate change, food waste has come increasingly under attention in recent years and for good reason:<\/p>\n