Impacts
Six Senses 2024 Sustainability Impacts
Sustainability is a defining characteristic of what luxury means to us. It’s also an area where we want to be a story-doer rather than a storyteller. Our commitment to be considerate custodians of the places where we reside was a founding principle when we became a sustainable hospitality brand in 1995, and why we continue our focus on making a net positive impact on our local wildlife, ecosystems, culture, and communities today. Our 2024 impacts are meaningful and measurable, tracking everything from the things we reduce (energy, water, plastic) to the things we regenerate (habitats, endangered and critically endangered species, local economies and prosperity).
Initiated in 2012, and led by the group’s Vice President of Sustainability Jeff Smith, individual properties monitor and measure their environmental efforts. All of the group’s hotels and resorts contribute to Cornell University’s Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking program, which compares their performance against a global dataset of their peers.
In 2024, Six Senses sustainability data reveals that as a hospitality group:
Since 2003, Six Senses has been bottling its own still and sparkling drinking water. By establishing on-site filtration and bottling facilities, each resort eliminates the transportation impacts and use of plastic water bottles. Six Senses drinking water has proved a taste-test winner with guests also.
Each Six Senses resort and hotel features an Earth Lab, which promotes sustainable living in inspirational and innovative ways. The space is used to host workshops that empower guests and community members to learn about and connect more closely with the natural world.
Regenerative Impact
Each Six Senses property designates and manages a Sustainability Fund, comprised of 0.5 percent of total revenue, in addition to proceeds from the hotels’ cute and cuddly soft toy mascot, that represents a Sustainability Fund project. The Sustainability Fund is invested in community, habitat, and wildlife projects local to the hotel, meaning that every guests’ stay contributes to positive social and environmental impact.
Each resort has taken on unique projects based on the local need and is aiming for the greatest measurable impact at that destination – and there are too many to list here. Guests at any Six Senses property can find out more by dropping into the Earth Lab or joining a sustainability tour. And we welcome all our guests to join us in celebrating these projects and partnerships, which are only made possible by guest visits and ongoing support.
Thanks to the commitment of our partners, hosts, and guests, here are some of our impacts reported for 2024:
- 10,277 domestic, stray, and livestock animals have an improved standard of living
- 143,083 square meters of habitat is being restored
- 28,764 kilograms of trash removed from the environment
- 7,347 sea turtle hatchlings made their way to the ocean from our beaches
- 16,084 participants from local communities in our projects
- 3,770 hours of hosting awareness raising activities
- 5,635 individuals with improved access to safe drinking water and sanitation
- 5,150 individuals with improved access to public waste management
- 9,442 students with improved access to education
- 131,015 individuals with improved access to healthcare