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The Swiss hotel business is undergoing constant structural change. That situation has caused the industry in recent years to come under enormous cost pressures, with certain participants even operating at the borderline of profitability.
The reasons for this economically strained situation in the hotel business are manifold. Hotels have no other choice than to increase the earnings power, i.e. the productivity and performance, of their operations.
This can only be accomplished if all cost-saving opportunities are resolutely exploited throughout their entire value-adding chain, and all procedural mechanisms are improved on a lasting basis.
The operating costs related to hotel building technology and energy consumption represent a considerable cost factor, especially for larger hotels.
According to detailed studies conducted by the Swiss Federal Office of Economic Affairs, annual energy costs amount to roughly 2.0 to 4.5% of a hotel’s total revenues.
It is noteworthy that the Swiss hotel industry, which consists of 5,675 enterprises with a total of 210,000 employees, is accountable for approximately 2% of Switzerland’s annual volume of fossil fuel and electric energy consumption.
Assuming total revenues of CHF 8.4 billion and an energy-cost component of 3.5% of that income, the annual outlays for energy alone amount to a total of CHF 294 million.
Until now, the market lacked a work tool that enabled energy and material flows to be compiled, analysed and benchmarked in a simple manner.
hotel optimizer tackles precisely that function. It provides an easy and effortless means of bringing energy cost-saving potential to light.
hotel optimizer – brings more light into your business
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