Dear ICHRIE SIG Sustainability and Innovations colleagues,

 I hope this finds you all well!

Faranak and I would like to invite you to a 60-minute ICHRIE SIG Sustainability and Innovations meeting taking place on Thursday November 16^th at 10am PST, 1pm EST, 7pm CET, 2am Nov 17^th SGT – a calendar invitation is following.

Zoom: https://iubh.zoom.us/j/62303340806

Meeting-ID: 623 0334 0806

We would like to shortly report from EuroCHRIE Sustainability symposium which featured:

1. Integrating sustainability in higher education via the Whole School Approach (Malu Boerwinkel, Hotel Management School Maastricht).
2. Using AI to foster class engagement on challenging sustainability topics (Adam Carmer, School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, Muma College of Business, University of South Florida)
3. Preview of the Net Positive Hospitality Simulation (developed by the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance  - ICHRIE being a partner of the Alliance - and Tim Rogmans who is behind the Sustainability Management Simulation: Net Zero distributed via Harvard Publishing) – Willy Legrand IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany).

For this upcoming SIG meeting, Adam will be presenting on the use of AI in class activities toward enhanced classroom engagement when covering challenging sustainability topics and concepts.

I will be offering a preview of the Net Zero Hospitality Simulation explaining how it works, how it can be implemented in class, showing how decisions impact a series of sustainability indicators and so on. The basic idea is to take over a hotel for a period of seven years with the aim of making as much progress as possible towards the achievement of Net Positive Hospitality.

The agenda is as follows:

We would be very interested having you involved as much as possible so do bring in your ideas, concerns and recommendations along.

Greetings from Bonn, Germany & San Jose State University

Faranak Memarzadeh, SIG Vice-Chair 

PROF. DR. WILLY LEGRAND, SIG Chair        

Department of Hospitality, Tourism and Event Management