Earth Guest day 2009 Report

(prostitution, juvenile delinquency). The hotels have identified several possible actions to be made in
2009. The various participants want this project to be sustainable. Four actions have thus been
decided for the year to come, with one priority: training.
Earth Guest day was the opportunity to inaugurate this partnership. The children concerned, hotels’
employees, association’s members, local authorities and the press were present. This signature day
was the occasion for the organization of several activities from and for the children such as animations
and fundraising.
Guadeloupe biodiversity
The employees of the MGallery L’Auberge de la Vieille Tour,
helped by the town council members and Europcar
company’s employees cleaned up beaches near the hotels
(Grande Plage du Gosier and Plage Publique de l’Auberge de
la Vieille Tour).
La Reunion biodiversity
The Novotel St Gilles, Mercure Blue Beach and Mercure
Creolia hotel employees and their families participated in a
visit of the Road of Tamarins, currently under construction, a
way for crossing the island from end to end, currently representing the biggest European building site.
The employees were presented the environmental side of the project.
La Martinique waste, biodiversity
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The employees of the Mercure Diamant cleaned the hotel area, dug out
an ill tree and planted a new one, with the help of the gardening
company, Novavert Services.
Mexico water, biodiversity
Accor Hospitality
Every hotel and head office Accor Hospitality Mexico were mobilized between 20 and 26 April and
carried out a lot of actions.
On April 21 st , cleaning actions of the surrounding areas took place at the Novotel and ibis Monterrey
Valle: 35 garbage bags were filled up!
On April 22 nd , it was the turn to the Boca Lake, a place that attracts a lot of tourists, to be cleaned up
by the Novotel and the ibis Monterrey Valle and the ibis Monterrey Aeropuerto teams. The staff of
Novotel Santa Fe, ibis México Perinorte and the head office, along with some students and suppliers
cleaned up the lake of the Iris Lake: 35 garbage bags were filled up!
The hotels also organized awareness actions for school children,
students and employees on water topic. Awareness tools were
distributed to the guests. The Mexican teams also supported actions
for local communities.
Reforestation and cleaning operations also took place: at the ibis
Guadalajara Expo, the teams cleaned up the green areas and planted
trees.
Exhibitions on actions achieved for Earth Guest day since 2007 were displayed in the hotel lobbies, to
share the hotels’ best practices.
Accor Hospitality Mexico officially renewed its engagement against children sexual exploitation in
tourism and organized a lecture on that issue in the Novotel Santa Fé.