Alila Hotels

Alila’s Environmental Vision

Alila’s vision toward responsible tourism lies not only in their management philosophy for a sustainable business, but in the knowledge that hotels globally contribute in major waste, pollution, community, cultures and travel expectations. Environmental awareness has made sustainable tourism a necessary platform for future successful hotels. The business benefits of going green are: reduced consumption and therefore reduced costs, customer loyalty, attracting and retaining dedicated staff. Alila Ubud and Alila Manggis will be the first hotels within the group to be GG21 certified. The other properties will soon follow. All our newly developed hotels are going to embrace environmentally sustainable design principles in each design and construction. Our Alila villas Uluwatu, Bali will be the first hotel ever built to this standard from the plan.

ALILA MANGGIS ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY POLICY

Alila Manggis is a boutique designer property set to harmonise with Balinese culture and located within a coconut grove on the tranquil East Coast of Bali.  In order to provide our guests with a Balinese experience in terms of culture, environment and ambience management recognises the need to work in harmony with the local community. We demonstrate this through achieving recognition with the Bali Tri Hita Karana Awards which promote a balanced relationship between fellow human beings, their God and the environment and through adopting the Green Globe 21 approach to sustainable tourism. We offer our guests the opportunity to participate in our GG 21 activities by constantly creating new Alila experiences in support of this policy while proactively encouraging local tourism operators in our regency to think Green especially in preserving the waterways, coral reef and minimising their use of plastic.

To promote our community relationship we commit to select the majority of our employee’s from the local area and region of Karangasem regency.  We utilise fresh local products from our organic garden in the first instance and where these are not available purchase goods and services from local suppliers with a preference to those from profit sharing co-operatives organisation.

It is our commitment to measure our greenhouse gas emissions, energy and fresh water usage, waste water discharges, minimize our solid waste and set targets etc., in all areas to improve our environmental performance through benchmarking with GG21 every year and to comply with the relevant environmental public and occupational health and safety, hygiene and employment legislation and other requirements of Indonesia to which we are obliged to adhere.

Our Management and Green Team is proud to promote and communicate our aims and performance in the GG21 programs to our share holders and to all staff, neighbours, suppliers and local community and to make this policy available to them on request.

Our Environmental and Social Efforts

We invite you to join our Green Team when staying at Alila with the following environmentally friendly options:

•          Fresh linens and towels are provided daily.  Protect the earth by saving gallons of water and chemical detergents by placing this card on your bed should you wish to reuse your bed linen.  Should you wish to reuse your towel, please hang it on the hook provided, if not please leave it on the floor of the shower and you will receive a fresh towel.

•          Save on carbon emissions and explore the delightful countryside of East Bali by bicycle instead of by car this holiday.   Healthier for you and the ozone layer.

•          Support local village co-operative projects by taking home gifts of our beautifully packaged coconut soaps.  Spa Alila soaps can be found in our Alila Living boutique.

•          Immerse yourself in Balinese culture with a visit to one of our local temple ceremonies with our Leisure Concierge who is happy to share with you the spiritual, communal and social rituals andpractices of these blessed people.

To learn more about Alila Manggis

http://www.alilahotels.com/manggis

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