Hotel Sustainability

Gina Dudley, General Manager of the Hilton Pensacola Beach Gulf Front Hotel, is force to be reckoned with.   With decades of hospitality management experience under her belt she almost always accomplishes whatever she sets out to do.  When she joined the Hilton management team in the late nineties, shortly after moving to Pensacola from Hawaii, she made it her personal mission to manage an environmentally sustainable hotel.

Her progress was slowed by two hurricanes and a major renovation but Gina wasn’t deterred.  In order to reach their goal she and her crew implemented a series of sustainable practices in four areas including: waste reduction, reuse, and recycling, water conservation, energy efficiency and indoor air quality.  They also implemented a program sponsored by Hilton Hotels & Resorts called LightStay that monitors resource consumption by team members and guests.

In 2007, the Hilton was designated by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection as the first green lodging hotel in Pensacola and Pensacola Beach.  Gina and her team are now building a compost station and a roof top greenhouse where they will grow fresh herbs for their restaurants kitchens.