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Lim Lay Ying
New Straits Times
08-21-2009
The making of green hotels
Byline: Lim Lay Ying
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Property
Column: Trends

THE last time you stayed in a hotel, did you reuse the towels just as the card on the bathroom's vanity top appealed to you to do? If you did, as the card said, you would be helping to conserve natural resources and save the environment from further degradation, then the hotel's green efforts paid off.

More and more hoteliers around the world are asking guests to reuse their towels in order to tackle environmental issues, rising energy costs, consumer demands as well as government expectations. To them, the request to reuse towels was one of the ...

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