Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa receives Green Globe Re-Certification


Maldives
PUBLISHED August 26, 2019

Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa has renewed its Green Globe certification, demonstrating the resorts commitment to environmental conservation. Green Globe recently re certified Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa with the resort achieving a high compliance score of 86%.

General Manager of Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa Mr.Pravin Kumar said "Environmental preservation and sustainability was not just an idea created during the resorts operational years. Ever since the resorts early design phases, the dedicated commitment to environmental preservation and sustainability has very much been and continues to be a culture. While we provide guests with a barefoot luxury holidays experience, we also acknowledge that our presence leaves a footprint. We will continue our green efforts and strive to sustain and preserve this place that we call home."

Management and staff members adhere to a comprehensive Sustainability Management Plan. Water and energy consumption, monitored daily and monthly, have met predicted targets and reduction goals for 2020 have already been set. A solar panel on one of the buggies has been trialled at the resort and it is hoped that solar powered buggies will be launched on a larger scale in coming years.

Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa ensures that Maldivian culture us represented throughout the resort. Locally made beads and fabric have been incorporated in to Do Not Disturb signs on doors and tasty Maldivian short eats are provided for snacks. Fun facts about the island are promoted in all rooms via an IPad compendium that can access information about Maldivian culture and environmental knowledge such as the formation of the atolls.

Locally employed team members who can best showcase and explain daily life on an island act as guides for guests when visiting other neighboring islands. Furthermore, the resort plans to train local residents as dive instructors in the future, which will provide viable livelihoods for those in the wider community.

Waste management in the Maldives has been challenge in the past and the resort keeps an up-to-date record of where all waste goes and how much is recycled. Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa recycles approximately 50 per cent of its waste. Almost all glass and used oil is recycled. Plastics are sent to an international non-profit organisation, which collects and re-cycles plastic waste that can be used in products such as branded sports apparel and shoes.

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