Nordic Choice Hotels' WeCare Sustainability Program
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Nordic Choice Hotels is a large hotel chain operating 195 hotels across Scandinavia and the Baltics, with over 31,000 rooms. As part of its sustainability initiative called WeCare, Nordic Choice Hotels focuses on reducing its environmental impact in areas like energy and water usage, waste production, and transport. It also emphasizes ethical trading, diversity and inclusion in its workforce, local social responsibility projects, and partnering with UNICEF to prevent child trafficking. Nordic Choice Hotels aims to integrate sustainability into its core business strategy and operations.
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- 1. WeCare Sustainability in Nordic Choice Hotels Helsinki September 2017
- 2. Nordic Choice Hotels is no ordinary hotel company An operational and franchise company established in Norway in 1990. 195 hotels in Scandinavia and the Baltics. Part of Choice Hotels International, with more than 6,300 hotels in over 35 countries. The world’s sixth-largest hotel chain. 2
- 3. 3 3 chains 195 hotels 31,093 rooms 12,932employees from 129 countries 8.9 million guests in 2015 11.2 million online visitors 12 hotel projects WeCare Sustainability 185 ISO-certified hotels 1,300,000 Nordic Choice Club members 38% in equity Sales of NOK 9.2 billion (including franchises) 20 independent hotels
- 5. Child labour
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- 8. Innovation Sustainable business models CSR as value creation CSR as risk management CSR as corporate philantrophy Compliance Providing funding and skills Fundamental strategic and operational impact Medium strategic and operational impact Little strategic and operational impact
- 9. WeCare: Triple bottom line Three thoughts at the same time
- 10. WeCare PLANET All Nordic Choice hotels are now certified in accordance with the ISO 14001 environmental standard. In focus: energy, water, waste, chemicals, transport. Every day. At all our hotels. • Since 2000 we have dedicated ourselves to making our hotels more energy efficient • Our energy consumption has fallen by more than 20% since 2003 • 80% of our hotels use 100% renewable electricity with a source guarantee from Ishavskraft • The electricity comes only from hydroelectric, solar, wind, wave, geothermal, or biomass energy sources Energy efficiency and green power Aspect Targets, 2012-2017 Water -20% (litres per guest night) Waste -10% (kilos of residual waste per guest night) Chemicals -10% (grams per guest night) Energy -10% (KWh per m2 per year) Transport -15% (number of transport journeys)
- 12. WeCare PLANET
- 13. WeCare PEOPLE 130 nationalities 30% with a non-Scandinavian background 14% with a non-Scandinavian background at management level
- 14. DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION We recruit people who for various reasons have become excluded from society. WeCare PEOPLE
- 15. ETHICAL TRADING By following strict standards and co- operating closely with our suppliers, we can focus on the environment and the people in our supply chain. WeCare PEOPLE
- 16. LOCAL SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Taking responsibility beyond the walls of our hotels has always been part of Nordic Choice’s culture. More than 140 of our hotels have projects and initiatives to help disadvantaged people in their local communities. WeCare PEOPLE
- 17. UNICEF & NORDIC CHOICE Social responsibility is also about thinking worst case. That is why we work with UNICEF to prevent and remedy the effects of child trafficking. WeCare PEOPLE SWEET DREAMS! Your sweet dreams make children dream sweet
- 18. UNICEF INITIATIVE WeCare PEOPLE Christmas gifts Holmenkollen relay Aid Activity campaign Field trip Collection of Christmas gifts; lonely Christmas tree
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- 25. 1 kg = 40 NOK 600 tons = 24 MNOK = 1160 tonn CO2 HVERT ÅR
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- 33. 75% har lokale prosjekt 55 000 jule- gaver samlet inn 3400 kopper kaffe i timen Dårlig palmeolje faset ut av ALL mat Alle hoteller ISO14001- sertifisert Food platformEthical trading Environmental friendly operations Local projectsDiversity UNICEF Årlig 90 studenter som WeCare Coacher 19% redusert vann- forbruk siden 2009 WeCare har et stort spekter av aktiviteter på alle fokusområder Matavfall redusert med 35% siden 2013 Minstekrav innført for alle leverandører 120 ulike nasjonali teter 14% ledere m ikke- skand. oppr Kontroller og oppfølging av leverandører