Results
Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas Delivers Sustainability Results
The results are in and Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas has every reason to be delighted with its combined sustainability figures gathered from all properties in 2020. Meaningful and measurable, the figures are based on energy and water consumption, solid waste and waste diversion, indicating that their industry-leading sustainability vision is flourishing.
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 2020, Six Senses sustainability data reveals that as a group:
Over the past 16 years, 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.
Sustainability Funds
Sustainability Funds are managed at each Six Senses property with sales added directly from house-bottled water and popular stuffed animal mascots that reflect each location.
Although 2020 was challenging for the tourism sector as a whole, collectively Six Senses achieved its sustainability targets once again, thanks to the commitment of its hosts, their families, local community partners, and guests too.
Here are the latest figures reported for 2020:
- 111,385 people gained access to clean drinking water and sanitation
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260,555 square meter of protected/ restored Habitat
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19,084 kilograms of trash was collected voluntarily by our hosts, community members and guests
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16,730 community member joined our events helping the environment and supporting communities
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2,792 endangered sea turtles hatched on our beaches
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820 coral fragments were successfully planted
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We engaged 2,824 hosts to participate in Plastic Free Training
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2,954 of our hosts participated in Zero Waste Training
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We provided access to education and skill trainings to 4,195 local people
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More than 17,000 local community members, hosts and their families supported positive impact events, with an extra 4,317 guests helping out
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Hosts dedicated around 2,000 hours to volunteering in their local communities
In the past year, even when closed to guests, properties were very supportive of local efforts to relieve the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“This year proved once again how being environmentally and socially responsible can be successfully wedded to uncompromising guest hospitality,” said Six Senses Vice President of Sustainability Jeff Smith. “What was even more remarkable was that, our hosts and community partners remained galvanized, volunteering their time to help those in need and giving back for community and wildlife.”