About Hotel Resilient
Hotel Resilient is a leading digital platform that equips the hospitality and tourism industry with the tools to assess, enhance, and communicate resilience and sustainability.
By leveraging scientific risk analytics, real-time data, and industry-aligned best practices, we help hotels, destinations, and tourism businesses proactively manage climate risks, disasters, and sustainability challenges.
Our platform provides accommodations with a detailed footprint of their disaster and climate risks, along with actionable recommendations to build resilience and ensure business continuity.
We take a destination-focused approach, partnering with Destination Management Organizations (DMOs), Destination Management Companies (DMCs), Tour Operators, and local governments to foster collaboration and provide a gateway for hotels to display their sustainability practices to a global audience, using standards aligned with the industry standards such as the Global Sustainable in Tourism Council (GSTC).
We recognize that small and mid-sized independent hotels often face barriers to sustainability certification, despite their strong environmental commitments. Through a cost-free, collaborative verification system, we remove financial obstacles, allowing accommodations to be recognized for their sustainability efforts and gain visibility in the growing eco-conscious travel market.
Our mission
Our mission is to empower the hospitality and tourism industry to build resilience and drive sustainability. We achieve this through data-driven insights, industry collaboration, and actionable solutions that help businesses and destinations mitigate risks, adapt to climate challenges, and implement proactive solutions that ensure long-term success in an evolving world.
By fostering industry collaboration, ensuring data transparency, and removing barriers to resilience and sustainability assessments, we create a future where resilient and sustainable tourism is not just a goal, but a standard that is more accessible, actionable, and impactful.
Our team

Bijan Khazai
CEO

Trevor Girard
Director of Standards

Andreas Schäfer
Director of Technology

James Daniell
Director of Analytics

Simon Michalke
IT Admin & Software Development

Christopher Mardell
UI/UX Design & Software Development

Annika Maier
Climate & Data Science

Marina Borja
Risk Analytics

Nia Klatte
Sustainability Consultant

Jana Filippova
Marketing Consultant

Anna del Sorbo
Marketing Consultant

David z. Ortegon-Martinez
Training Consultant

Prof. Friedemann Wenzel
Advisory Board

Brian Tress
Advisory Board

Dan Fenton
Advisory Board

Geoffrey Lipman
Advisory Board