Supporting Sustainability
The Journey to Inspiring Change
As a responsible enterprise, we demonstrate our commitment to sustainability by growing our global presence while respecting the environment. Our integrity has allowed Centara to achieve meaningful success in business, building a reputation as both a hospitality leader and an ethical corporate partner. As we grow, Centara will continue to protect our planet, support local communities and create positive sustainable impacts.
Steeped in Thai tradition, Centara’s core values permeate the entire family of brands. We encourage all management levels to take part in local charity events to strengthen the communities in the cities that we operate in. Every little effort counts and we believe we can be a force for good across all our properties in the world.
Sustainability at Centara
Centara has identified and established the following key objectives to guide our sustainable and ethical commitments.
Community
Support the local community where we conduct business through our own environmental and social initiatives
Eco Technology
Devote resources to new technologies which are environment-friendly and make commercial business sense
Environment & Ecology
Committed to the preservation of our environment practices according to best practice
Special Place
Celebrate your wedding, renewal of vows or honeymoon in a special place.
Live More Sustainably
Water & Energy Saving Tips
Sustainability Awards
Centara EarthCare
Centara Hotels & Resorts is the first Asian hospitality group to formally incorporate the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (“GSTC”) criteria into its internal sustainability standard. Our stainability standard is called “Centara EarthCare,” which is fully recognised by GSTC. The set of standards is based on the 4 pillars of the GSTC Criteria, which include the following principles: Environment, Social, Cultural, and Management. To help Centara Hotels and Resorts track, measure, benchmark and continuously improve our performance, we have implemented a third-party sustainability management system called Greenview Portal, a GSTC-Recognised system.
Our commitment to sustainability has put us on the path to long-term success, where we acknowledge and appreciate that the strength of the local community and the overall health of the environment in which we operate has a direct impact on our business and consequently the prosperity and security of the destinations where we operate. Therefore, it is our intent and our primary goal to continue to be a positive stakeholder in Thailand and in the foreign markets where we operate.
Properties In Spotlight
Discover our hotels' activities to create positive sustainable impacts.
Centara Ras Fushi Resort & Spa Maldives
Solar panel installation on the roofs of all of the resort’s main structures generates enough pollution free power to supply close to 40% of its energy needs.
The Coral Restoration Project
Centara Ras Fushi Resort & Spa Maldives together with Best Dives Maldives provide an opportunity to witness the growth of a new coral garden and learn the process of recovering the damaged corals and how to help to minimize the threats to the resort guests and local school students.
Centara West Bay Hotel & Residences Doha
In spite of the climate challenge where the hotel is situated (hot desert climate), the hotel managed to grow its own organic herbs and vegetables in their garden. Those organic herbs and vegetables are used for cooking at the Thaikitchen in the hotel. In one year, the hotel can produce around 2,077 kilograms of organic herbs and vegetables.
Centara Grand & Bangkok Convention Center at CentralWorld
Food Waste Prevention initiative is created to reduce food waste in preparation process. Executive Chef and kitchen staffs attended Food Waste Prevention training to understand how to reduce food waste in operation, operation cost and get the most benefit from our raw material. This project kicked off with raw material preparation at Butcher and Seafood section for six months. It can reduce food waste in preparation process from 40% to 15%.
Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort Pattaya
Installed the heat recovery system to recovery waste heat from the compressor from the walk-in refrigerator and the exhaust pipe of steam boiler to reuse and reduce the total energy usage in the hotel and save approximately 373,540 kWh per year of energy.
Centara Grand Beach Resort & Villas Hua Hin
The hotel retains its air of the bygone age of elegance for almost a century by using indigenous plants wherever possible for landscaping; minimises light and noise to limit disturbance to wildlife; plants local tree and bush species to create shaded areas and new habitats for native species to feed and reproduce effectively.
Centara Grand Beach Resort Phuket
Converting organic waste over 100 kilograms per day into cooking fuel and fertilizer from their In-house composting biogas production machines.
Centra by Centara Maris Resort Jomtien
Converting organic waste over 100 kilograms per day into cooking fuel and fertilizer from their In-house composting biogas production machines.
Centara Hotel Hat Yai
Improved its hot water production in the building system by installing reneable energy, the Solar Heat and helps save 166,330 kWh per year of energy usage.
COSI Krabi Ao Nang Beach
The newly opened lifestyle hotel reused 100% of its treated wastewater or around 330 cubic metres for back-of-house toilets since opening in late October of 2020.
