April News 2026: Staying the Course, Sustainable Events & Partnership Updates

一 Mariam Karim

| April 22, 2026

💌A Note from the Kiosk team

Life is settling down and routine is creeping back in, but the questions about what sustainability means in this new landscape remain.

Contracts are being revisited. Budgets are being cut. Sustainability teams are being asked to justify their existence in a way they weren’t two months ago.

Here is what we know: the hotels that stay the course on sustainability right now are building a competitive advantage. Use this time wisely — make your strategy more efficient, complete the pending work you’ve been deferring: your accessibility gaps, your local sourcing plan, the certifications you started but haven’t finished.

Downtime is not wasted time. It’s the window to build the foundation that holds when things pick up again.

The Human ROI

This Ramadan, we gathered our team and selected partners for an Iftar built on one simple belief: the most meaningful thing we can invest in is people.

The social pillar of sustainability is one of the most important and most underinvested areas of ESG. It’s easy to quantify carbon. It’s harder to quantify genuine human connection, but that doesn’t make it less real. It makes it more important. Social responsibility is something to be practiced at every table, in every conversation, all year long.

That story is often what lands with an owner or GM when carbon numbers don’t.

Events Made Sustainable

B2B RFPs are increasingly evaluating sustainability credentials. It’s one of the few areas that is visible, guest-facing, and measurable in a single reporting cycle.

As a founding member of the DET Event Sustainability Requirements Technical Advisory Committee, we have built 12 event-focused services designed specifically for GCC hospitality market — covering everything from strategy and planning through to on-site delivery and impact reporting.

If your property has conferences, F&B activations, or corporate events coming up in Q3, now is the time to build sustainability into the brief — not retrofit it afterwards.

Explore more

In this new partnership with The World Sustainable Hospitality Alliance (WSHA), Sustainability Kiosk will lead efforts to develop a regional strategy for the Middle East aligned with global sustainability standards and the Sustainable Development Goals. For our hotel partners, this means direct access to frameworks, tools, and benchmarks that carry weight in owner and board conversations.