Through its partnership with The Leading Hotels of the World, Ltd., Quintess, LRW has joined the company’s recently launched Leading Green Initiative, an innovative program enabling and encouraging guests to make conscious decisions about greener travel by actively supporting Sustainable Travel International (STI), the foremost non-profit organization in responsible tourism.

The Leading Green Initiative is a carbon neutral program whereby Quintess, LRW will directly absorb the cost to offset members’ energy consumption in each of the Club’s 60+ properties worldwide. Through this Quintess, LRW will contribute funds to renewable energy programs that will prevent an equal amount of carbon dioxide emissions elsewhere around the globe.

“We are proud to take a leadership position as the first destination club to proactively support responsible tourism and sustainable travel, as well as to help protect the environments our members visit,” said Ben Addoms, Founder and EVP, Membership Development for Quintess, LRW. “Nothing is required of the members as the contribution to STI is completely underwritten by Quintess.”

STI has created a unique carbon offset program for the Club by calculating Quintess, LRW’s Carbon Footprint: the total carbon dioxide emissions associated with the internal operations of each home. This includes:

**Home electricity consumption expressed in kilowatt-hours or megawatt-hours on a month-to-month basis;

**Square footage of common areas;

**Total number of rooms;

**Average occupancy rates; and

**Estimated total number of guests annually.

This program also enables Quintess, LRW members to positively impact the environment on their own by simply mentioning Leading Green when reserving an experience at any of Leading Hotel’s 440 hotels worldwide, or directly booking through http://www.lhwgreen.com/. LHW will make a corporate donation of 50 cents to STI for every night of a guests’ stay. And, if Club members want to make a financial donation on their own, they can use the STI carbon calculator, which is on the Quintess, LRW website, to calculate how much would be needed to offset the carbon footprint from their travel beyond their stays in Club homes.

Brian T. Mullis, President of Sustainable Travel International stated: “We are thrilled that Quintess, LRW, has joined with The Leading Hotels of the World to participate in their Leading Green Initiative, which helps reduce the carbon footprint associated with their residences.”

About Quintess, The Leading Residences of the World:

Quintess, The Leading Residences of the World is a luxury destination club that creates amazing personalized vacation experiences for its members. Quintess, LRW provides its members with access to 60+ multimillion-dollar residences in 30 international resort and city destinations, including Aspen, Los Cabos, Florence, Hawaii, Jackson Hole, London, Napa Valley, New York City, Paris and Tuscany, among countless others. With 375+ members, the Club’s member-to-home ratio is six-to-one-one of the lowest in the industry. Memberships begin at $195,000.

For more information, please visit their website: http://www.quintess.com/ .

About The Leading Hotels of the World, Ltd.:

The Leading Hotels of the World, Ltd. is the prestigious luxury hospitality organization representing more than 440 of the world’s finest hotels, resorts and spas, and is the operator of http://www.lhw.com/ — the online source for your luxury lifestyle. As the largest international luxury hotel brand, the firm maintains offices in 24 major markets across the globe. Since 1928, the company’s reputation for excellence derives from the exacting levels of quality it demands of its members, each of which must pass a rigorous, anonymous inspection covering 1,500 separate criteria.

For reservations and information, visit their website: http://www.lhw.com/ or telephone toll-free from the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, 800.223.6800.

About Sustainable Travel International:

STI (http://www.sustainabletravelinternational.org/) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote sustainable development and responsible travel by providing programs that help travelers and travel-related companies protect the environmental, socio-cultural and economic values of the places they visit, and the planet at large.

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Websites: http://www.quintess.com/
http://www.lhwgreen.com/
http://www.sustainabletravelinternational.org/