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The article discusses an innovative and successful project that made Sri Lanka's hotels more environmentally efficient. The Greening in Sri Lanka Hotels (GSLH) Project started in 2009 and designed to enhance the environmental performance of Sri Lankan hotels through improvement of energy, water and waste management systems. It suggests steps for developing country who wants to initiate an industry-wide greening hotels project like creating awareness of the benefits of a good energy.

The article focuses on the increasing need of well-trained and qualified managers in Sri Lanka due to its increasing popularity as a tourist destination. It states that the country recorded more than one million tourist arrivals and one billion in export earnings in 2012. It also expands on statistics on the requirement of rooms and hotels needed to accommodate 2.5 million tourists by 2016. It also expands on the status of education and training related to hospitality and tourism industries.

Announces the replacement of the Hotel & Catering International Management Association's International Development Committee with the International Development Group. Purpose of the change; Members of the IDG; Plans of the committee.

Addresses the goal of sustaining tourism development in Guiana during the University of Guyana-coordinated 2003 Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Trends (WHATT) Roundtable discussion held at the Meridien Pegasus in Guyana in May 2003. Description and travel in the Guiana; Participants; Issues discussed during the roundtable discussion sessions; Three-point agenda of the roundtable.

Reports on the expansion of the 'Going Global' section of the Hotel & Catering International Management Association's journal in Great Britain. Inclusion of Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Trends (WHATT); Presentation of WHATT ideas in Canada, the Caribbean, Brazil and Guiana; Collection of articles from the U.S., Portugal and China; Publication of 'Best Practice' case studies; Contribution of related articles on hotel and catering.

Highlights the 2003 Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Trends international round table discussions in the Caribbean Area focusing on the topic "Sustainable Tourism Development: The Role of Researchers in the Caribbean." Host of the event; Industry and academic participants; Research and education needs identified by the participants.