When I met Trina White, general manager of the Parkside Hotel & Spa in Victoria, British Columbia, at the Beyond Green Global Leadership Summit in early March, it quickly became clear she wasn’t like the other hoteliers in attendance.
It wasn’t her passion for sustainability that made her stand out. That was table stakes among the Beyond Green member hotels gathered for this event.
What distinguished White was the context in which she operates. While many attendees represented…
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