Hilton raises bar on corporate responsibility measurements

Hilton Worldwide announces an upgrade to LightStay, its in-house corporate responsibility measurement platform, across the company?s more than 4,440 properties globally.
The company says that, with new features and enhancements, this next generation of LightStay now serves as the ?comprehensive, one-solution platform for all environmental, operational and social impact reporting? for Hilton?s global portfolio of hotels.
The year-long upgrade was based on analysis of hotel data across Hilton?s global portfolio from the past five years.
With thousands of metrics, Hilton improved LightStay to help hotels better manage energy and water usage as well as drive improvement across hundreds of indicators over time.
This next generation of LightStay tracks historical energy and weather data to forecast future energy usage levels and predict the impact of performance on cost and annual consumption, taking into account variables such as occupancy and weather.
The system cross-references the data hotels submit with expected performance and sends automatic alerts to hotel teams when performance falls below expected levels.
Hilton designed LightStay to provide three-month forecasting of energy and water consumption at each property and identify any discrepancies in usage, enabling hotel operating teams, owners and management groups to take corrective action to influence future performance.
All hotel teams in the Hilton portfolio are required to track and complete improvement projects each year, enabling the full portfolio to benefit from over 4,800 energy-efficiency projects.