Marriott Goes Green with Newspapers on Demand

I'm an avid reader of events and happenings but if you'd ask me when the last time I picked up a newspaper and sat down to read it, I'd look at you with a blank stare. Why would I read a newspaper when I can find everything online?

However, I have many friends that couldn't imagine not starting their Sunday morning with a cup of coffee and the newspaper. It'd be a tragic event if either the coffee or newspaper was missing from their morning ritual, they may as well not wake up.

Effective June 1st, Marriott will green their hotel with a small, but important policy. Guests will now have the choice of whether or not they'd like to be greeted with a newspaper each morning. Unless you request a newspaper during check-in or, if you're a reward members, adjust your online profile preferences, your stay will be newspaper-free. A small gesture, but one that will cumulatively reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save thousands of tons of paper.

Plus, travelers like myself will no longer feel a pang of guilt when they walk out of their hotel room and never even touch the newspaper... except of course to carry to to a recycle bin.