You offer your guests tea bags in their room as part of your standard amenity tray. Most likely you have coffee sachets and sugar too.

Do you include green tea on your amenity tray? If you don’t, it’s an option you may want to consider.

Green tea is popular with many guests, some for historic or cultural reasons and others because it’s more of a lifestyle drink.

There are any number of websites extolling the benefits and virtues of green tea, with much talk of “polyphenols,” “Epigallocatechin Gallate” and “the amino acid L-theanine,” which frankly goes over our heads but it’s true that green tea does have less caffeine than coffee, while still having some.

So it’s not a decaf drink but if you don’t want all the caffeine of coffee or regular tea, it’s a nice alternative.

And green tea is popular with the eco-friendly set. If, as is becoming increasingly the case, you’re advertising your property as an eco-friendly, green-friendly hotel, it would be a good idea to include green tea in your amenity tray, along with the other coffees and teas and fair trade items.

Especially if you cater to a more health-conscious clientele, green tea will be much appreciated on the amenity tray. Green tea advocates say it helps lower not only the risk of cancer but the risk of type II diabetes, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, tooth decay and other ailments.

Whether it actually does any of those things or not is up to the experts but plenty of travellers believe it does, so they would appreciate being offered green tea at your hotel.