All data for 2023.
Total GHG Emissions for India (CO2eq): 3.4 billion tons.
Total Hospitality Industry Emissions:
- Total emissions: 30-35 million tons (CO2eq)
- Proportion of total GHG emissions: approx 1%
Hope this is useful.
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Support data and other highlights
1% https://sustainablehospitalityalliance.org/our-work/climate-action/ – but this is for global
There appears to be no validated data for CO2 emissions from all the hotels in India. But here is an effort:
Total number of hotel rooms in India – about 3.3 million in 2023 – based on a survey by Hotelivate.
The big question is: How much CO2 does a hotel-room emit per day or per year?
There is hardly one data point that can be taken as reference, especially for India. Estimates – India and global – vary all the way from 10 Kg CO2 per year in the UK to 40 Kg for high end internatioal hotels.
One of the few reports I came across for hotels’ emissions footprint across countries was from a blog that quoted estimates from DEFRA UK. Interestingly, this report says India’s hotels have a much higher estimate per hotel room per day/night – 60 Kg of CO2/room-night, compared to just 10 Kg per room-night for UK and about 20 for Australia! I suspect these are for high end hotels. I cannot imagine a room in a small, unbranded but decent hotel emitting more than perhaps 25 Kg CO2 per room per day (even with AC on most of the time), and a lower end hotel with perhaps no AC emitting not more than 5 Kg per day. In India, 75% of hotels are unbranded. So, taking a conservative average 50 Kg per room night for a branded hotel and an average 15 Kg per room night for an unbranded hotel, the total comes to about 15 million tons each for the branded and unbranded hotel segment; so together, 30 million tons of CO2 per year. But, let me be upfront about this estimate: This could be as low as 15 million tons, and could go upto 35-40 million tons as well.
75% of a hotel’s GHG emissions are from energy and about 25% from food & drinks (this is for the UK, but I will not be surprised if this is similar for India too).
