About Rebecca Hawkins
Research and Consultancy Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, and is the Director of Centre for Environmental Studies in the Hospitality Industries. She has focused throughout her career on the development of strategies and policies for sustainable tourism. She has contributed to a number of major projects which include the development of a voluntary energy efficiency agreement (“Hospitable Climatesâ€) between Government and the hospitality sector, the development of an on-line sustainability benchmarking tool for hotels (for the International Hotels Environment Initiative), a major review of tourism ecolabelling programmes (for the Worldwide Fund for Nature) and the UK Government consultation document on sustainable tourism (for the Department of Culture Media and Sport).