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ANALYZING AND COMMUNICATING PERFORMANCE
A two-year journey reached the end of its first leg on April 20, 2010, when Hilton Worldwide unveiled a proprietary system called LightStay, which calculates and analyzes its hotels’ individual and collective environmental impacts. The system measures energy and water use and waste and carbon output at Hilton Worldwide properties globally. LightStay analyzes environmental performance across two hundred operational practices, ranging from paper product usage to chemical storage.
Guided by pragmatism, Hilton Worldwide first planned and then thoroughly tested LightStay among 1,300 of its 3,600 properties before speaking publicly about its investment and its aspirations. The results of its internal tests ...
