Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL), India’s largest hospitality company, has announced its partnership with VFS Global for a hospitality-focused academy in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. This association aims to provide skilling opportunities to the youth in the community.
TOGA Group, Atlassian and Dexus have joined forces with not-for-profit organisation My Foundations Youth Housing (MFYH) to launch The Central Project, providing those in need with temporary accommodation.
Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL), India’s largest hospitality company, has announced its partnership for a hospitality focused skill centre at Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. This association with Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board and Tata STRIVE aims to develop talent from economically weaker and socially disadvantaged local communities, especially women.
Indian Hotels Company (IHCL), India’s largest hospitality company, announced its partnership for a specialised skill centre at Jai Mahal Palace, Jaipur in partnership with Ambuja Foundation (ACF) and AU Foundation
Whilst political unrest and the national financial crisis put pressure on the trainees, as families struggled to fulfil their daily needs, 27 trainees celebrated their graduation yesterday, determined to build a better life for themselves and their families. This comes at a time when over one in five young people globally are not in education, employment or training,[1] and youth unemployment in Sri Lanka is rising, with 26.1% of young people not in employment.[2]
IHG Hotels & Resorts, one of the world’s leading hotel companies, has launched a partnership with VietHarvest to reduce food waste and feed those communities most in need in Vietnam.
Centara Hotels & Resorts (SET: CENTEL), Thailand’s leading hotel operator, has been awarded Thailand Sustainability Investment (THSI) status for the fifth consecutive year by the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) in recognition of its outstanding performance across Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) aspects.
With a focus on promoting Environmental Stewardship under its ESG+ framework of Paathya to drive its sustainability and social impact measures, Indian Hotels Company (IHCL), India’s largest hospitality company, announced that 35 per cent of its hotels in South India have succeeded in fulfilling their energy requirements from renewable sources. This is in line with IHCL’s commitment towards energy conservation and long term goal of deriving no less than 50 per cent of energy across all hotels from renewable sources by 2030.
IHG Hotels & Resorts and Spinal Cord Injuries Australia’s (SCIA) employment service, EmployAbility, have announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership to provide career opportunities for people with a disability across their hotel network, throughout Australia.
With numerous commitments from both large and small businesses, India's goal of becoming carbon-neutral by 2070 is gaining traction. Reliance Industries, Aditya Birla Group, JSW Group, and Mahindra & Mahindra are just a few of the Indian businesses that have set decarbonization targets to become carbon neutral by 2050 or sooner. By implementing eco-friendly practices, hotel companies in India are also stepping up and doing their part to lessen their impact on the environment. For instance, to reduce their carbon footprint, the majority of hotel operators have reduced and eliminated single-use plastic and switched to more environmentally friendly options like refillable shampoo/soap dispensers, as well as opting out of daily linen and towel changes. Some are also using renewable energy, smart energy systems, reusable water, and zero-waste policies to make their operations more sustainable while also saving money.
Following a ‘Farm-to-Table’ concept, the company is working directly with farm collectives in northeastern Thailand to source the finest organic Jasmine rice for use in its restaurants and staff canteens – all while supporting sustainable development.
Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL), India’s largest hospitality company, has signed a MoU with the Assam Government to establish a hospitality-focused skills training centre in the North East, in line with the company’s ESG+ framework, Paathya. The state-of-the-art residential Centre of Excellence will be developed in collaboration with Assam Tourism Development Corporation Limited (ATDCL), Tata STRIVE Skill Development Initiative of Tata Community Initiative Trust (TCIT) and the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE), Government of India, with the aim to develop talent from economically weaker and socially disadvantaged local communities.
Dusit International, Thailand’s most distinguished hospitality company, is breathing new life into Bangkok’s urban landscape with the creation of Dusit Central Park, a once-in-a-generation real estate project that integrates luxury with nature in a way that will enhance and harmonise urban lifestyles in Bangkok.
Iconic Malaysian resort, The Datai Langkawi, has published its second Impact Report following the August 2021 launch of its wide-reaching sustainability, conservation and community support programme, The Datai Pledge. The report identifies significant measurable successes attained in key projects across all four pillars of The Datai Pledge, which aim to support marine life, terrestrial wildlife and local youth, as well as make the resort’s business operations more sustainable. Notably, the programme achieved zero-waste-to-landfill (and strives to do so consistently), saving 146,704kg of waste and 69,115 glass bottles; collected over 4,361 seedlings, including critically endangered species, to be germinated in the resort’s Native Tree Nursery; began work on creating a possibly world-first, trans-island wildlife corridor; created an in-situ hatchery and conducive turtle environment in Datai Bay, prompting its first turtle landing in over 10 years; and hosted an intern for six weeks as part of Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots Malaysia RASMA programme.
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Ahead of the occasion of World Environment Day, Indian Hotels Company (IHCL), India’s largest hospitality company, has announced a host of sustainability and social impact initiatives under its ESG+ framework, Paathya. In line with this year’s theme of ‘Only One Earth’, the company has undertaken tangible measures under Paathya’s six key pillars of Environmental Stewardship, Social Responsibility, Excellence in Governance, Preserving Heritage, Value Chain Transformation, and Sustainable Growth.
Following the previous article about ecologic obsolescence, this article presents the sustainability performance and initiatives in the hospitality industry. Commonly known as ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance), which covers a wide range of key performance indicators (KPIs) in corresponding aspects, such as green house gas (GHG) emissions, stakeholder engagement and people management. Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, environmental and social issues received increasing attention, and ESG disclosure became a critical indicator of corporates being good citizens and neighbors. This article provides an overview of how the six major casino operators in Macau disclose their ESG performance in 2020 and reviews the quality of their reporting with recommendations for future reporting. The full article is available for download here!
In line with its commitment to make a positive impact with an integrated approach towards creating sustained growth, Indian Hotels Company (IHCL), India’s largest hospitality company, continues to make strides in strengthening it sustainable business practices. Guided by its framework of Paathya, IHCL has undertaken a number of initiatives including phasing out single-use plastic, reduction in carbon footprint, water conservation, utilization of renewable sources of energy and extensive community engagement.
Ascott Residence Trust (ART) has issued its first sustainability-linked bond of S$200 million under its newly established Sustainability-Linked Finance Framework. ART is the first hospitality trust globally to issue a sustainability-linked bond. ART is also the first listed real estate trust in Singapore to issue a sustainability-linked bond.
As Hong Kong battles its unprecedented fifth wave of Covid-19, Shangri-La is particularly concerned about the wellbeing of those in our community who are especially vulnerable: the elderly, the disabled, and women and children. Starting on 28 February 2022, we have been extending our hospitality beyond our physical properties into the local community by working with several charity organisations to provide hot meals, test kits, and masks to these groups of people. As of today, our culinary teams have cooked and distributed 23,460 meals, and we plan to provide up to 6,000 hot meals per day until the end of April 2022. “Shangri-La Cares, Hong Kong” aims to spend US$2 million to achieve this target.