InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG)

IHG’s Methodology for Calculating & Reporting Hotel-Level Carbon Per Occupied Room Values

Introduction

The carbon footprint associated with an individual traveler’s stay at a hotel is commonly expressed
in terms of a Carbon per Occupied Room (CPOR) intensity metric. This value can be defined as the
representative carbon footprint associated with a room night stay at the hotel, calculated for a
given year by dividing the emissions associated with the hotel's total energy data by its...