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Sandals Resorts Celebrates World Environment Day with EarthCheck

June 5, 2020 by PressEditor

World Environment Day, June 5, 2020, is the United Nations day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect the environment. At Sandals Resorts & Beaches, environment day is promoted not just on this day, but all 365 days of the year.

All Sandals Resorts participate in the EarthCheck benchmarking and certification program. From recycling to conserving, ecological responsiveness is a Sandals commitment. Because its “green” resorts are made for love, loving the environment has become second nature.

World Environment Day: Sandals Resorts EarthCheck Commitment

The EarthCheck program

The mission of Sandals Resorts & Beaches is to offer the ultimate Caribbean vacation experience by innovatively, reliably, and consistently providing the safest and highest quality services and facilities to guests, while attaching a premium to human resources and being among the most eco-friendly and community-friendly resorts in the hospitality industry.

World Environment Day: Sandals Resorts EarthCheck Commitment

The Oceanic Standard

The Oceanic Standard (TOS) is a comprehensive guide to implementing sustainable practices in the hospitality industry, with a focus on reducing single-use plastics. Oceanic Global, the force behind TOS, awards businesses who have achieved certain levels of commitment in adopting sustainable practices with a series of badges to denote their dedication to conservation and eco-friendly initiatives. Sandals resorts are proud to have received the distinction of Sustainability Steward and Straw-Free Certified.

Sound Environmental Practices

The Sandals Group is committed to preserving natural resources and providing quality vacation experiences for its guests while working to minimize the environmental and social impacts associated with operations.

Staff Awareness

Team members participate in workshops and seminars conducted by the environmental committee, local government organizations, and also by non-governmental environmental organizations.

Water Conservation Program

Monitoring of total water use on properties (pools, guestrooms, kitchens, dining rooms, and garden areas) are consistently conducted.

Energy Management Program

Use of timers on electrical equipment such as whirlpools, steam rooms at the spa, outdoor lighting for walkways, and refrigeration equipment in the kitchens, helps to save energy automatically.

Waste Management Program

Waste disposal practices and procedures at Sandals resorts such as the recycling of linen and bedspreads, food, office paper, and packages, is part of a normal work-day practice.

Control of Hazardous Substances

Sandals Resorts & Beaches determines suitability of all product before any purchase is made and provides full training for staff whenever new chemicals or equipment are purchased for use in the hotel.

Social & Cultural Development

In support of local culture and development, Sandals promotes and sells local tours and attractions with special recognition of “green tours” at its tour desks. Sandals Resorts invites local craft vendors to its properties to display and sell their craft items – appreciated by guests as well as artisans.

The Final Straw

Every Sandals Resort has eliminated single-use plastic straws and stirrers used across its resorts. Eco-friendly paper straws are available upon request.

Eliminating Styrofoam

Every Sandals Resort has eliminated Styrofoam used across its resorts. This is just another way Sandals reduces its environmental footprint and improves the health of Caribbean communities.

The Sandals Foundation

Sandals’ philanthropic arm, the Sandals Foundation, continues to promote programs which focus on the betterment of the environment, education, and the community as its contribution to sustainable development in a fragile environment.

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Single-use plastic ban, food waste and local produce top priorities in Centara’s 2019 Sustainability Plan

March 22, 2019 by Forimmediaterelease

Centara Hotels & Resorts, Thailand’s leading hotel operator, is focusing on three key sustainability initiatives as part of the company’s recently announced 2019 Sustainability Plan: eliminating single-use plastic products; reducing its food waste footprint; and expanding its support of local farming and produce-growing communities.

  1. No Single-Use Plastic Products by end-2019

The elimination of single-use plastic items is part of the “Centara Earth Care” program aimed at encouraging hotel guests and tourists to be proactive about energy saving, waste reduction and sustainable environmental tourism. The sustainability plan covers five types of single-use plastic items, including drinking straws, laundry bags, take-away food containers, fitness center and poolside plastic bottles, and plastic guest room amenities. They are being replaced with items made from materials designed to minimize environmental impact.

“Centara strives to operate ethically and sustainably in a balanced manner across the entire portfolio whilst providing an exceptional level of Thai hospitality,” said Thirayuth Chirathivat, Chief Executive Officer. “We are committed to selecting environmentally friendly produce which, in turn, enables us to further incorporate sustainable strategies and development into our products and services, creating shared value at an environmental, social and economic level wherever we operate. We are also committed to ensuring a respectful, safe and healthy environment to the larger society and our future generations.”

Centara began phasing in its elimination of single-use plastic products in 2018 across all 39 of its operating properties. Under the plan, alternative products which are reusable and made from environmentally friendlier materials, including plant-based, compostable and bio-degradable plastics, will be fully phased in by year-end.

  • Phase I, targeting the elimination of plastic straws, began in August 2018. The single-use plastic straws being eliminated take up to 200 years to decompose; the new bio-straws replacing them decompose within six months. Once the change is fully enacted throughout all Centara properties, the reduction in plastic straw consumption will total nearly 2.2 million straws per year.

 

  • Phase II, eliminating the use of plastic laundry bags, began in December 2018. Moving forward, these practices will also become Centara’s standards for all existing and new properties.

  1. Food Waste Reduction

Centara’s new and continuing food-related sustainability initiatives include:

  • further reducing food waste and minimizing each property’s carbon footprint with expanded purchasing of fresh local foods from herb, fruit and vegetable growers
  • making same-day donations of surplus food to charities located near each property
  • providing local farms with pre-separated organic waste for composting
  • transforming waste at select properties into biogas fuel, a blend of mostly methane and carbon dioxide gases which can be used in place of fossil fuels.

In 2018, Centara supported the Bangkok-based foundation Scholars of Sustenance (SOS Thailand) by making same-day donations of more than 28,000 kilograms (kg) of quality surplus food. The donations provided over 86,000 servings to those in need, while the reduction in Centara’s food waste saved over 54,000 kg of GHG equivalent emissions.

Both Centra by Centara Maris Resort Jomtien and Centara Grand Beach Resort Phuket have biogas machines on-site capable of converting 30-100 kg of organic waste each day into an equivalent number of litres of organic compost and biogas comparable to nearly five kg/day of LPG fuel. Since July 2018, the Cowtec Composting & Biogas Production Machine installed at Centra by Centara Maris Resort Jomtien has been processing organic waste from the property’s kitchens, staff canteens and landscaping works. By the end of 2018, the machine had composted more than 5,700 kg of organic waste and produced 262 kg of biogas equivalent LPG.

  1. Strengthen Local Communities

Centara’s 2019 Sustainability Plan further expands the company’s support for local communities’ small farms and producers who grow food for Centara hotels and resorts in their area.

The company attributes much of its carbon footprint reduction to making approximately 70% of total produce purchases from local sources. Beyond the economic benefits to the community, expanding farm-to-table dining enables each property to provide the freshest available food items to guests.

The company’s ongoing engagement with EarthCheck, the world’s leading scientific benchmarking, certification and advisory group for travel and tourism, continues to yield consequential improvements in key sustainability metrics. To date, 15 Centara hotels and resorts have achieved EarthCheck certification and another four properties are enrolled in  EarthCheck’s Evaluate Plus program, leading to significant reductions in carbon footprints and greenhouse gas emissions across a number of Centara’s certified properties.

Most recently, the company’s leadership in environmental sustainability was recognized by the Stock Exchange of Thailand, which awarded Centara Hotels & Resorts (CENTEL) its “Thailand Sustainability Investment (THSI)” designation, an annual recognition for listed companies that operate with responsibility for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) aspects.

Further recognition for properties includes the “Green Hotel 2018 Award” from the Department of Environmental Quality Promotion at Thailand’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, awarded to Centara Grand Beach Resort & Villas Hua Hin and Centra by Centara Maris Resort Jomtien.

Centara Hotels & Resorts is Thailand’s leading hotel operator. Its 68 properties span all major Thai destinations plus the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Laos, China, Oman, Qatar and the UAE. Centara’s portfolio comprises six brands – Centara Grand Hotels & Resorts, Centara Hotels & Resorts, Centara Boutique Collection, Centra by Centara, Centara Residences & Suites and COSI Hotels – ranging from 5-star city hotels and luxurious island retreats to family resorts and affordable lifestyle concepts supported by innovative technology.It also operates state-of-the-art convention centers and has its own award-winning spa brand, Cenvaree. Throughout the collection, Centara delivers and celebrates the hospitality and values Thailand is famous for including gracious service, exceptional food, pampering spas and the importance of families. Centara’s distinctive culture and diversity of formats allow it to serve and satisfy travelers of nearly every age and lifestyle.

Over the next five years Centara aims to double its size with additional properties in Thailand and new international markets, while spreading its footprint into new continents and market niches. As Centara continues to expand, a growing base of loyal customers will find the company’s unique style of hospitality in more locations. Centara’s global loyalty program, Centara The1, reinforces their loyalty with rewards, privileges and special member pricing.

Find out more about Centara at www.CentaraHotelsResorts.com

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Aussie know-how positively impacts global tourism

November 20, 2018 by Newswire

Australian know-how can lead the world in sustainability excellence, according to Brisbane-based EarthCheck, a leading scientific benchmarking, certification and advisory group for travel and tourism.

EarthCheck Founder and CEO, Stewart Moore said reinforcing the role of tourism in building a sustainable global future is not a straight forward mission, if it is managed well, tourism can contribute significantly to regional development, if not it can have considerable impacts on nature the economy and society.

“Places where the demand for our services is highest include many of the countries in the Asia Pacific region together with fragile and unique locations such as Iceland, Mexico, Portugal, Sweden and New Zealand where we provide a wide range of services including strategic planning and destination management advice,” said Mr. Moore.

It is critical that tourism and travel, as one of the world’s fastest growing sectors, is built and operated on more sustainable principles. In the past year, terms such as over-tourism and tourism-phobia have continued to make headlines across the globe and communities and visitors alike are demanding more responsible planning and management,” Moore continued.

Destinations around the world are recognising the need to embrace sustainability as a market driver and point of difference.

“Becoming engaged in sustainable tourism has gone beyond simply ‘going green’. Today we have enormous opportunities to transition towards the new low carbon economy. EarthCheck’s certification services support clients in over 70 countries across the world in six languages and 32 industry sectors. We are seeing tangible steps to strengthen sustainability efforts which are a very promising trend for the future of tourism,” Moore continued.

Clients include a who’s who of leading operators such as Meliá International and LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton in Europe; Taj Hotels, Palaces and Resorts in India and Sandals Resorts in the Caribbean who have been working with EarthCheck for over 20 years. All of these brands have made sustainability a key part of their business plans.

“Tourism and its related economic activities is a major source of earnings for many countries, the sheer size and globalised reach of the tourism and travel sector now gives it a substantial footprint that needs to be more effectively controlled.… but it is important to recognise that you can’t manage what you can’t measure,” said Moore.

EarthCheck prides itself with having the best science in the world. This science came courtesy of the Co-operative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism in Australia which concluded its formal research program in 2010 and was replaced by the EarthCheck Research Institute which still exists today.

The company’s continued commitment to leading edge science has more recently delivered a swag of awards. This includes winning the QTIC Innovation Award and the Premier of Queensland’s Export Award in 2017 closely followed by scooping the 2018 United Nations World Tourism Organisation Innovation Award and more recently the Brisbane Lord Mayor’s Business Award for Doing Business in Asia.

EarthCheck’s suite of products and certification standards cover the design and operation of buildings, key service infrastructure such as convention and exhibition centres, urban precincts, destinations and tourism enterprises. The 5-Star Emporium Hotel in Brisbane became the first hotel in Australia to be designed and built using the EarthCheck Building Planning and Design Standard.

“In a world that now recognises the importance of evidence based information EarthCheck has built the world’s deepest data set of operational metrics,” Moore says. “Our patented software platform transforms raw data into simple to understand infographics and reports that can be quickly used by all levels of a business.”

“EarthCheck’s key point of difference remains our talented staff in Brisbane and across the world who have a passion for sustainability, our science which is constantly evolving and our global vision for a better world. At EarthCheck we believe that what’s good for the planet can also be good for business.”

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Ecological tourism in China takes leadership position in Yunnan

November 9, 2018 by Newswire

Rich in natural resources and recognised as one of the world’s most biodiverse hotspots, Yunnan Province in China attracts more than 400 million domestic and international visitors seeking bespoke travel experiences immersed in culture, nature and adventure-based activities.

The APEC International Centre for Sustainable Tourism (AICST), EarthCheck and Yunnan Vinetree Tourism Development Co., Ltd (Vinetree) has announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will provide specialist research and development work to enhance sustainable tourism practices for enterprises and destinations in China.

The research partnership will focus on social responsibility and environmental best practice and provide capacity building and educational resources on climate change, risk management, sustainable tourism and workforce development.

Managing Director of AICST and EarthCheck CEO, Mr Stewart Moore, said the MOU would provide opportunities for both organisations to contribute to improved planning and management of tourism in remote areas and promote international understanding of different races, cultures and beliefs.

“Visitors are becoming increasingly engaged and seeking out destinations with rich cultural, environmental and heritage values,” Mr Moore said.

“Tourism is becoming more about journeys of discovery with a strong interest in local culture and lifestyle.”

Vinetree CEO, Ms. Koko Tang, said local people and communities, business operators and visitors are key to the continued conservation and protection of China’s natural and cultural environment.

“When people experience our rich culture and diverse landscape the understanding they gain can translate into support for conservation efforts and the protection of the things that we value in Yunnan”

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