Hotels and Tourism Accommodation

About the Award

A brand-new award for 2026 in partnership with Fáilte Ireland

Rewarding those demonstrating leadership in hotels and tourism accommodation businesses going beyond best practice in new or upgrade technology deployments for energy efficiency, renewable energy or energy management solutions in their business or premises.

Entrants should demonstrate:

• Rationale and drivers for the energy efficiency improvements 
• Innovation in energy efficiency implementation (technology/ approach/ financing) 
• Evidence of management/CEO commitment and embedded organisational behavioural change
• Future plans for change within company and demonstration of ongoing process
• Baseline energy use and cost (kWh, € (CO₂ if available))
• Current energy use and cost (kWh, € (CO₂ if available))
• Energy and cost savings since implementing changes (kWh, € (CO₂ if available))
• Number of employees / sizes of business
• SqM of premises (where applicable)

Who should apply?

Hotels and other tourism accommodation 

Application guidelines

1. Please submit your application online by 5pm, Friday 5th June, 2026.
2. You are eligible to apply under more than one category. Simply follow the online guidelines and copy and paste your application to a new category and amend your answers as appropriate.
3. Please ensure all mandatory fields are completed before you hit submit.
4. Please complete the 'Data' section to the best of your ability.
5. Once you submit, you can still edit your application up to the deadline date.
6. Please keep attachments to 5MB or less.
7. Shortlisted applications will be announced in August.