Brussels – 2023 was an distinctive 12 months for Radisson Hotel Group’s award-winning Responsible Business program. The Group made vital progress on its Net Zero by 2050 transition, achieved necessary milestones in worker engagement and variety, and continued to look past its borders to convene the hospitality {industry} in assembly the rising demand of customers for inexperienced journey.
The launch of Radisson Hotel Group’s 2023 Responsible Business report marks the thirty fifth anniversary for the reason that Group issued its first pioneering environmental coverage – the primary ever within the {industry}. The 2023 report outlines key initiatives and milestones the Group achieved all through the final 12 months within the areas of Think People, Planet, and Community, and the progress in its transformation to grow to be Net Zero by 2050.
As a worldwide Responsible Business Leader, the Group continues to remodel its accommodations and processes to be extra sustainable and meet the rising demand of customers for inexperienced journey, together with the roll out of the Hotel Sustainability Basics (HSB).
Following the approval of its near-term science-based carbon emission discount targets for 2030 by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), the Group acquired validation of its Net Zero science based mostly targets, aligning firm targets with the personal sector’s contribution to worldwide COP21 local weather objectives. This validation helps Radisson Hotel Group’s imaginative and prescient to decouple carbon emissions from enterprise development, scale back greenhouse fuel emissions by 46% by 2030, and progress in direction of Net Zero by 2050. The Group’s efforts have already yielded vital outcomes, with a notable 35% discount in carbon footprint per sq. meter since 2019. The Group’s carbon footprint emission outcomes had been verified by TÜV Rheinland, together with the evaluation of proof related to the voluntary reporting of emission data, on a pattern foundation.
A key precedence for Radisson Hotel Group stays wanting past its firm borders to play a much bigger function within the hospitality {industry} by encouraging accommodations and vacationers around the globe on their sustainability journey. As a number one supporter of the cross-industry Pathway to Net Positive Hospitality and the Hotel Sustainability Basics, in addition to a signatory of the Glasgow Declaration and advocate of the Nature Positive imaginative and prescient for the hospitality {industry}, Radisson Hotel Group is positioned amongst the main firms driving the hospitality {industry}’s sustainability transformation.
Radisson Hotel Group is totally dedicated to the roll out of trusted sustainability labels in all its accommodations and is continuing with the roll-out of the Hotel Sustainability Basics (HSB). Currently 50% of the Group’s accommodations are within the means of verification and 179 accommodations are totally HSB verified, whereas one other 165 accommodations are licensed with an eco-label.
Sustainability is a core a part of our Strategic 5-year Plan and is carefully linked to different key initiatives, driving our imaginative and prescient as a significant model for friends, homeowners, and expertise. We proceed to put money into ESG and concentrate on value efficiencies, in addition to the income alternatives of being a accountable enterprise. Together with key stakeholders and associations, we imagine in driving and rising sustainable journey and making sustainability an intrinsic a part of our 10 main manufacturers. Federico J. González, Executive Vice Chairman, Radisson Hotel Group
Key achievements embrace:
Think People: As a various and inclusive employer, Radisson Hotel Group provides significant profession moments and development to encourage staff members and assist them develop each professionally and personally. In 2023, staff members took half in greater than 1.5M hours of coaching and growth. For the third consecutive 12 months, the Group was acknowledged by Forbes Magazine as one of many World’s Best Employers within the Travel and Leisure {industry}. Additional key Think People highlights embrace:
- 83% Radisson Listens total staff member engagement rating
- 32% ladies in management positions
- eighth slavery and human trafficking assertion issued
- 188 accommodations licensed by Safehotels
Think Community: Radisson Hotel Group companions with a number of organizations to present again to the native communities the place it operates. The Group’s long-standing partnerships with international organizations like SOS Children’s Villages International and Just a Drop have reworked hundreds of individuals’s day-to-day lives around the globe. Additional key Think Community highlights embrace:
- 36,700 volunteer hours from company workplace and resort staff members
- 29,500 individuals supplied with secure ingesting water for all times by the Group’s towel re-use and inexperienced housekeeping packages
- 1.3M donated in money and in-kind by company workplaces and accommodations to nonprofit organizations
- €670K+ donated in money to SOS Children’s Villages for the reason that begin of the partnership
Think Planet: Aligned with its dedication to Net Zero by 2050, Radisson Hotel Group continues to implement concrete motion in direction of web zero, biodiversity safety, and an equitable world. Additional key Think Planet highlights and outcomes from 2023 embrace:
- 35% discount in carbon footprint per sq. meter since 2019
- 67 accommodations use 100% renewable electrical energy and vital progress was made on activating the corporate’s renewable vitality technique
- All conferences are totally carbon compensated, having offset 87,000 tons of carbon since 2019
- 970 electrical automobile charging stations groupwide
Read the complete Responsible Business 2023 report right here.
About Radisson Hotel Group
Radisson Hotel Group is among the world’s largest resort teams with 9 distinctive resort manufacturers, and greater than 1,600 accommodations in operation and beneath growth in 120 nations. The Group’s overarching model promise is Every Moment Matters with a signature Yes I Can! service ethos.
The Radisson Hotel Group portfolio consists of Radisson Collection, Radisson Blu, Radisson, Radisson RED, Radisson Individuals, Park Plaza, Park Inn by Radisson, Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, and prizeotel introduced collectively beneath one industrial umbrella model Radisson Hotels.
Radisson Rewards is our worldwide rewards program that delivers distinctive and personalised methods to create memorable moments that matter to our friends. Radisson Rewards provides an distinctive expertise for our friends, assembly planners, and journey brokers at over 550 accommodations in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.
Radisson Meetings gives tailor-made options for any occasion or assembly, together with hybrid options putting friends and their wants on the coronary heart of its provide. Radisson Meetings is constructed round three robust service commitments: Personal, Professional and Memorable, whereas delivering on the good fundamentals and being uniquely 100% Carbon Neutral.
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