The UK’s Wyboston Lakes Resort team picked up; the prestigious International Association of Conference Centres (IACC) Americas Innovation Award in Texas this week. The team from the dedicated conference centre in Bedfordshire picked up the award at the IACC Americas Knowledge Exchange Conference at the Texas A&M Hotel and Conference Center. Chef Lena Cybulska was also runner-up in the Global Copper Skillet competition.
The Innovation Award recognises the successful implementation of new ideas and practices. The Wyboston Lakes Resort team won for its Room2Give scheme, its ESG initiative that reduces energy consumption and enables the Resort and its guests to support local community organisations.
Guests staying at the venue’s Woodlands Event Centre or Willows Training Centre for more than one night are able to choose which of three local charities to support by opting out of room cleaning. Every time a guest opts out, a donation is made to the Room2Give fund. Guests actively choose which charity their contribution supports by hanging the corresponding door hanger.
Steve Jones, CEO of Wyboston Lakes Resort who attended the conference in Texas said: “To win another major international award for our sustainability initiatives is remarkable and puts the continually innovative efforts of our team into a new global perspective. I’m very proud of what the team has achieved. Room2Give made such a strong impression that several property managers asked us for further information about how it works!”
This is the second time that Wyboston Lakes Resort has won this global award, having taken the prize in 2023 for Room2Grow, the predecessor of Room2Give. As a consequence of its success, after just 30 months, the Resort team is in the process of planting more than 60,000 trees around its 380-acre estate.
The Wyboston Lakes Resort provides a total of 65 conference, training and syndicate rooms, 400 bedrooms and an 18-hole golf course. For more information, please visit www.wybostonlakes.co.uk/business
Photo: Wyboston Lakes Resort operations director Simon McMahon, picks up the IACC Americas Innovation Award
