TOP STORY Up close and personal with Simon Lehmann, AJL Consulting In the latest of a regular series, we find out what makes some of the leading figures in the serviced apartment and aparthotel sectors tick. This time, we speak to Simon Lehmann, co-founder and CEO of AJL Consulting. Lehmann is an online travel specialist, angel investor, and a thought leader in the alternative lodging and vacation rental industry. LATEST NEWS FEATURES VIDEOS Editor's comment 30-08-2019
• I find the news that Marriott and IHG's recent decisions to phase out single use plastic toiletry bottles will prevent a combined 700 million plastic items being sent to landfill each year quite mind boggling! 700 million from just two players, albeit major ones, in one industry! It is an eye opening reminder of the sheer scale of the plastic problem.
Hospitality is still needlessly using huge numbers of unnecessary single use packaging items, not only in toiletries but in the F&B space too - sauce sachets, butter wraps, plastic straws and so on. It's great to see the industry giants taking action, and it is down to every company in the space to do the same.
• Talking of huge numbers, coliving operator The Collective is not doing things by halves. The recent planning consent for its Garratt Mills scheme in Earlsfield, south-west London, has taken its pipeline past 8,000 units, and the company has a target of developing more than 100,000 units by 2025.
It is doing some innovative things with the local authority, key workers and students at Garratt Mills, a smart move as councils increasingly turn their attention to the effects that the sharing economy is having on the ability of local people to remain in sustainable and diverse communities.
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