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Asia Pacific Australia Accor Hospitality water Over 100 hotels participated in the Earth Guest day 2009 using the theme of water conservation. Guests were invited to speak about water and its conservation both at work and in the home. Hotel staff acted as Ambassadors, wearing Earth Guest T-shirts, to promote this special day. Here are examples of the Australian actions: - The Novotel Sydney Brighton Beach reduced water usage for the outdoors gardens. - The Mercure Townsville in Queensland’s employees helped recycling rain water. In fact, the rainy season caused extensive flooding in this town. - The Novotel Brisbane of Queensland staff was provided with drought proof plant seeds to take home. In fact Queensland is a region living with water restriction. These plants, being native plants, can stand up to the harsh weather conditions and ensure great gardens while using little water. - In Sydney, employees from the Corporate Office were given a lecture on the group’s water conservation initiatives around the globe . - In Melbourne, the employees of the hotel ibis Little Bourke Street raised local community awareness on water issues. Besides, the hotel is part of the Melbourne City Council’s recycling program. Sofitel energy, biodiversity, waste, water The Melbourne Sofitel encouraged its employees and their friends and/or families to bring their old mobile phones. They also participated at an awareness campaign on the recycling practices that can be implemented in the hotel and the house. The Sofitels Brisbane Central and Werribee Park Mansion Hotel & Spa planted trees. The Sofitels Gold Coast Broadbeach participated in the program “Tree Planting”. It offered to all its employees low consumption lights and more eco-friendly bags for shopping. The employees also participated in an awareness campaign on intern waste recycling and on the ideas about energy conservation (shut down computers at the end of the day, shut down unused lights, etc.). The Sydney Wentworth Sofitel gave all its employees information to promote biodiversity actions. It also implemented an hour called “Energy Saving Hour”. Cambodia water, biodiversity On April 26th, employees of the Sofitel Royal Angkor cleaned up around the hotel premises, planted trees in the garden. Employees also spent time with orphans to talk to them about water. And during all the month of April, every Saturday, the staff was educated about water treatment. China Accor Hospitality biodiversity A total of 785 employees from 25 hotels across China participated in rivercleaning actions. In Shanghai, the Accor Corporate 95 employees collected waste along the principal river of the town, Huangpu River. Sustainable development Department – July 2009 8/27
Accor Services biodiversity, water The Environment Charter was translated into Chinese. Some employees of the local Business Unit visited a water recycling plant. Sofitel energy, biodiversity, waste, water The Sofitel Ramón Square Hotels Xi’an, Dongguan Royal Lagoon Executive Resort, Forebase Chongqing, Galaxy Nanjing, Hefei Grand Park, Huanghe Sheshan Resort Shanghai, Plaza Xiamen, Qingyuan Riverside, Shanghai JJ Oriental Pudong, Suzhou, Zhengzhou International and Zhongshan Golf & Resort Nanjing carried out tree planting actions and created green areas. The Sofitel Boao, Hangzhou Westlake, Dongguan Royal Lagoon Executive Resort, Xanadu Resort Hangzhou, Silver Plaza Jinan, Qingyuan Riverside and Wanda Harbin organized cleaning sessions of the areas surrounding their hotels. The Sofitel Ningbo Wanda organized an awareness session for its employees on all the consumption of resources (water, energy and paper) and on the Environment Charter. It implemented energy savings actions in every department: surveillance and analysis of energy consumption every month, water and energy savings, creation of a green office concept by lowering the paper consumption, collection of used batteries, publication of energy savings among the employees. The Sofitel Shangai JJ Oriental Pudong, Suzhou and Wenda Chengdu raised their employees’ awareness on energy saving issues. The Sofitel Wanda Harbin and Wanda Beijing raised their employees and the surrounding school children’s awareness on biodiversity issues (trees, paper bag reuse vs. plastic bags, etc.). French Polynesia water Every Sofitel hotel in French Polynesia planted young trees in their gardens. Each hotel implemented a training program for their employees on waste sorting for the administration, the restaurant and the rooms. For each kilo of waste, a US dollar cent was donated for underprivileged children, Hong Kong Accor Services waste The SurfGold team participated in the Earth Hour and some awareness actions were launched. Moreover, the employees participated in a computer and battery recycling program. India Novotel water The Novotel Mumbai Juhu Beach teams visited a local waste water treatment station. ibis local development, health The employees of the Ibis hotel of Gurgaon organized a blood donation activity with the Indian Red Cross Society. Sustainable development Department – July 2009 9/27 The employees of Ibis Pune transformed a barren land into a lawn in a school specialized for blind children.
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