Travelife EPIT (Environmental Performance Improvement Tool)

EPIT  has been specially designed for Travelife Accommodation Providers to help them record and monitor their environmental performance, including their greenhouse gas emissions from energy, water and solid waste. This powerful yet simple software is available, free of charge, to all properties working with Travelife and can be accessed from the Evergreen certifications system.

EPIT allows you to easily record and monitor your monthly environmental metrics in a way that meets the Travelife Certification Requirements. It is specifically designed to work anywhere in the world for people of any experience level.

It automatically converts the data you enter to standard metric measurements, and converts your energy, water and waste measurements to carbon equivalent emissions. After you enter your monthly actual guest nights, EPIT will automatically calculate your guest night averages. It also has the ability for properties to enter their gross floor area so they can view their average greenhouse gas emissions per square metre.

As you enter your measurements each month, the powerful reporting function automatically updates. This makes it quick and easy to produce useful and accurate monthly and annual reports. These reports include comparisons to previous years. This means that the longer you keep adding your measurements to EPIT, the more useful it becomes as a way of analysing your performance over time. This allows you to see how well you are progressing towards your environmental goals, which efforts you are taking are working and where you might need to make changes.

If you are working towards long-term environmental targets, you can set a ‘benchmark year’ in your property profile. Once you have entered your data for the benchmark year, you can begin comparing your annual performance in subsequent years to your starting point. You can do this for long as you wish, allowing you to monitor how you are performing over an extended period.