About Accor
Hospitality is at the crossroads of many activities, making it an important vector for change. At Accor, we believe it’s our role to shape a more sustainable future of travel. While we’ve been a pioneer in bringing sustainable development to hospitality for more than 30 years, we are now accelerating our global sustainable transformation by building a model where we contribute more than we take and collaborating closely with our hotel owners and teams to embed sustainability across all our activities, with people and nature at the core.
Building on our People at our heart, we’re driving change through a comprehensive approach founded on three operational pillars that address the whole hotel journey, from conception and design to operations, to the guest experience.
Stay: Reinforcing Sustainable Hotel Operations
Eat: Embracing a Sustainable Food Chain
Explore: Promoting the Local Ecosystem and New Ways of Traveling
Some of our 2022 key achievements:
Stay: Reinforcing Sustainable Hotel Operations
We ensure our hotels are designed with sustainability in mind from the outset, and we transform and optimize their operations – waste management, energy and water consumption, eliminating single-use plastics, promoting a circular economy…, through to integrating properties within their ecosystems. As a result, a number of our hotels have obtained independent third-party sustainability certification for their sustainable operations with partners such as Green Key and Green Globe, testimony to our commitment.
Eat: Embracing a Sustainable Food Chain
Our role in optimizing the management of resources is crucial to control and improve the food cycle “from farm to fork.” We are transforming our supply chain, sourcing food more responsibly to preserve biodiversity and reduce environmental impact, as well as promote fair practices for local producers and farmers and respectful conditions for animals. We are also reinforcing actions to reduce food waste in our kitchens and to provide guests with an increasingly organic, local and seasonal offering, and overall raise guest awareness.
Explore: Promoting the Local Ecosystem and New Ways of Traveling
Our hotels are deeply rooted in their local ecosystems, communities and economies. One of the foundations of our business is to preserve each destination’s natural ecosystem and local culture for communities, visitors and future generations. We strive to actively protect the local environment and cultural heritage of the destinations around our hotels, as well as create opportunities and meaningful connections with the local communities.
