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MPI Unveils Comprehensive Functionality Upgrades in Breakthrough Sustainable Event Measurement Tool
New features help meeting professionals address growing expectations surrounding green initiatives
May 21, 2012 Dallas, TX
MPI and MPI Foundation announced a substantial upgrade of its Sustainable Event Measurement Tool (SEMT) now residing on the evolution Platform. The enhanced functionality of SEMT 2.0 will help meetings and events professionals save money, reduce resources and elevate their sustainability credentials.
The groundbreaking tool provides unique measurement capabilities that allow planners and suppliers to track--and take steps to reduce--their environmental impact. It also answers the hospitality industry's demands for a common disclosure platform and aligned reporting.
"SEMT 2.0 is the painkiller for sustainability headaches, says Bruce MacMillan, MPI president and CEO. We've developed something that's never been done before, a rigorous measurement and management tool that is smart, flexible and adaptable for the meeting and event industry."
ÂThe overhauled tool, developed by the Triple Bottom Line Alliance for MPI, enables planners and suppliers to tailor the system to their individual requirements and scale.
For planners, the free tool is a roadmap to organizing a sustainable meeting. It is adaptable to both sophisticated users as well as those just beginning to green their operations. Post-event data tracking capabilities support audit and compliance, and allow user groups to network and learn from each other in an enhanced online learning suite.
For suppliers, SEMT 2.0 is an environmental data management tool that addresses multiple needs and constituencies beyond the meetings industry. At the same time, it eliminates the need for suppliers to build their own environmental data management tool. Participation in SEMT 2.0 also demonstrates their commitment to sustainability to potential clients, stakeholders and investors.
The tool is free for MPI planners. Non-members and MPI suppliers have complimentary access to the tool until October 31, 2012.
A recent survey of SEMT users underscored the urgency of monitoring meetings and events activity. In a one-year period, planners and suppliers used 7.7 billion liters of water, 6.6 metric tons of C02 and traveled 2 billion kilometers.
Among the enhancements in SEMT 2.0, users will have access to the most comprehensive set of CO2e databases in the world, totaling 150 countries, and will adopt the methodology approved and delivered by the International Tourism Partnership and the World Travel & Tourism Council Carbon Measurement Working Group.
MPI, with the support of the InterContinental Hotels Group, is the industry leader in thought and practice leadership on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). InterContinental Hotels Group is a thought leader partner. No other global association is as committed to implementing and promoting standards and thought leadership concepts, nor delivering as much member value around CSR though content, tools leadership and practical guidance. To date, MPI has released the GRI EOSS report, annual global compact reports since 2007, a number of CSR case studies, whitepapers and webinars as well as CSR Research Study Phase I. Phase II set to deliver at IMEX America, October 2012.
SEMT 2.0 and MPI’s other industry-leading CSR initiatives are at www.mpiweb.org/csr/semt
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About MPI
Meeting Professionals International (MPI), the meeting and event industry’s largest and most vibrant global community, helps members thrive by providing human connections to knowledge and ideas, relationships, and marketplaces. MPI membership is comprised of more than 21,000 members belonging to 71 chapters and clubs worldwide. For additional information, visit mpiweb.org.
About MPI Foundation
MPI Foundation is passionately committed to bringing vision and prosperity to the meetings and events community worldwide by investing in results-oriented initiatives that shape the future and bring success to the meetings and events community. MPI is the meetings and events industry’s largest and most vibrant global community comprised of more than 23,000 members representing 84 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.mpifoundation.org.
About IHG
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms. IHG owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various subsidiaries, over 4,400 hotels and more than 645,000 guest rooms in 100 countries and territories around the world. The Group owns a portfolio of well recognized and respected hotel brands including InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo®, Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn® Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express®, Staybridge Suites® and Candlewood Suites® and also manages the world's largest hotel loyalty program, Priority Club® Rewards with 48 million members worldwide. IHG has 1,400 hotels in its development pipeline, which will create 140,000 jobs worldwide over the next few years. IHG offers information and online reservations for all its hotel brands at www.ihg.com and information for the Priority Club Rewards program at www.priorityclub.com. For the latest news from IHG, visit www.ihg.com/media. InterContinental Hotels Group PLC is the Group's holding company and is incorporated in Great Britain and registered in England and Wales.
About TBLA
The Triple Bottom Line Alliance is a unique collaboration of sustainability professionals who have synergized their individual talents to create and implement best in class measurement tools: Meet Green, MCI and the Carbon Consultancy. Their unique partnership and track record for developing sustainable strategies and solutions for the meetings and travel industries is highly respectable consulting and supports some of the leading Global Climate Change and CSR initiatives, including the United Nations Global Compact, COP15, Business Social Responsibility, US Green Building Council, the European Wind Energy Association and the World Business Summit on Climate Change. Their measurement tools are used globally in the meetings and travel sector.
