We had some really great threads last year, with the following four nominated for the Thread of the Year award in this January's Environment Site Awards ceremony.
Environmental News and Discussion Forum"Whatever befalls the Earth - befalls the sons of the Earth. Man did not weave the web of life - he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." - Chief Seattle
I fully agree with your points but my comments were for regular hotels and not the ones that you find in posh areas of dubai. Moreover no one staying at burj al arab is going to see what the tarrif is. So metioning it in this discussion seems to be a bit out of focus.
en, I had never thought about this question,
but I know many hotel put a paper on the table, on which "protect the enviroment and save the water" was written .