Today I’m joined by Victoria Erasmus who is the Owner Director of Glen Mhor Hotel & Apartments located in the heart of Inverness.
Victoria is relentless. We have been privileged to speak to many industry experts, hotel owners and managers over the years but Victoria is something else.
In this episode Victoria tells us how they are not yet a finished product but instead working on changing the mindsets of all their staff as they figure out the best way forward and how they can address the climate emergency in a meaningful way.
Last year Victoria and the team opened Scotland's First Water Source Energy Centre which extracts the heat from shallow wells on their site allowing them to have their own water source along with providing all heating and will remove all gas from their site over the next year. This £8 million pound project is located at the back of their new brewery and distillery Uile-Bheist (pronounced Ewl-Uh-Vhest and means monster in Gaelic). Uile-Bheist was built with sustainability at its core. Heated by their own energy, using water from their own source and solar PV for energy - making it one of the lowest carbon footprint brewstillerys in the country.
With a robust green policy, green team and climate action plan, Victoria and the team are clearly determined to do things the right way.
And if you’d like to learn more about Glen Mhor and their ethos and indeed see the property for yourself, then please do visit www.glen-mhor.com
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That’s our show for this week. Thanks so much for your company and remember, when it comes to Climate Friendly Travel, every small step forward, is giant stride when we all step together…