Waikoloa Village Hotel

&Tiffany PetersonHector Pantoja

History• 1960s and 1970s: Ron Boeddeker

purchased 35,000 acres

• Summer of 1986: Construction begins

• Waikoloa Village Hotel covers 62 acres

• Originally the Hyatt Regency Waikoloa

1986

2014

Sustainability• Efforts to be sustainable started in 2005

• Hawaii Green Business Award 2005

• Hilton Waikoloa’s Dolphin Quest is LEED-certified (silver level)

Recycling• Since 2005, Hilton Waikoloa Village has

recycled 727,157 beverage containers.

• 40,000 pounds of glass recycled per year

• 90,000 pounds of cardboard recycled per year

• Food waste is recycled by sending it to local pig farms – in just three months, nearly 200,000 pounds of waste was recycled

Energy• CFLs (Compact Florescent Lights)

• Palace Tower chandeliers used to contain 476 25-watt bulbs – replaced with 5-watt bulbs at a savings of 16% energy costs, $16,000

• From 2001-2009, the hotel reduced its electricity use from 27 million KWH to 21 million KWH

Water• Low-flow showerheads and ultra low-flow

toilets

• Change sheets and linens every third day

• Washing machines upgraded from using 4.8 gallons per pound of linen to 1 gallon per pound

Environment• Hotel serves as a home to hundreds of

native Hawaiian plants and wildlife

• Tours are given to educate guests on importance of preserving native wildlife and plants

• Hilton Waikoloa Village employees annually clean up the 4-acre saltwater lagoon and surrounding beach

Questions• There are plans to renovate Palace and

Ocean Towers in the future – what plans are there to increase these towers’ sustainability?

• Does the hotel produce its own energy through solar panels, or has it considered doing so?

• How does the hotel recycle the used cooking oil from its restaurants?

Questions• What percentage of the hotel’s total waste is

recycled?

• The Waikoloa Village Hotel works hard to be sustainable and environmentally responsible, but chooses not to promote this – why not?

• The land this hotel was built on was originally a lava bed – what kind of process was involved in making it habitable for the plants?

Questions• What was the original cost of buying the

land, and the cost of building the hotel?

• Were the furniture and furnishings in the hotel locally made, or imported?

• Is Hilton receiving state or federal funding to help with increasing sustainability?

References• Hilton Waikoloa Village Green Efforts

• History of Hilton Waikoloa Village

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