Tourism is a fast-growing industry around the globe, while at the same time accounting for a growing contribution to greenhouse gas emission. According to ITP Hotel Decarbonization Report, global tourism industry will need to reduce its annual greenhouse gas emission per room by 66% by 2030, and even 90% by 2050, to stay within 2°C threshold of COP21 Paris Climate Agreement. However, capability development and budget are hindering hospitality industry to facilitate Green Tourism.
Critical equipment such as chillers, boilers and pumps keeps the hotel running daily. However, most hotel operations team does not have the know-how to operate these equipment in the most optimal configuration, and it is increasingly difficult to recruit young and knowledgeable youth into this sector to manage energy and sustainable operation.
Successfully implemented IoT hardware and AI assistant for Pan Pacific Hotels Group (PPHG) HQ in Singapore, Evercomm’s solution now manages all the critical equipment across five different hotel in Singapore (scaling up to their global portfolio of 40+ more hotels) in a centralized, digital platform, improving 50% of operation team’s productivity by reducing tedious on-site manual data collection and processing, and enhancing more than 20% of operational performance by providing real-time, data-driven operational recommendation. Furthermore, the digitalization of energy data enables the automation of sustainability reporting, identifying the right action for hotels to go “greener” – such as reducing energy wastage or replacing obsolete brown technologies.

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• Asia and Pacific

• Youth
• Older persons

To tackle the budget constraint in tourism industry, especially in emerging markets such as Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia, Evercomm designed the business model into monthly subscription package – Productivity Booster. By subscribing $50 monthly, the package will not only include IoT hardware that will establish energy data supply chain, but it will also include the access to Web-based digital services that provide the insights for green operations. In other words, Productivity Booster is tailored to make sustainability affordable and available even in emerging markets.

To sustain the industry transformation, Evercomm will engage interns from local universities during the deployment. Not only can local talents practice and build up their “digital skillsets” through real business cases, but site engineers can also interact with university students to “reskill” their engineering techniques with latest digital trend. By doing so, the Green Tourism effort will be co-sustained by industry leaders, government, startups, and education providers, creating the momentum through cross-party interaction that sustains the industry transformation.

1. To transform traditional industry with effective ICT utilization and cutting edge digital technologies. 2. To ensure digitalization/AI adoption is affordable to traditional industries, such as hospitality & tourism. 3. To empower youth & PMETs to leverage AI to go for green, sustainable operations in hospitality & tourism.