Travelife Golden Award on sustainability
Hotel Olympia Golden Beach Resort & Spa recently gained one more prestigious award. After the title of the “Best Small and Luxury Hotel” in Greece in the “International Hotel Awards 2015” and the “Certificate of Excellence” with which it was awarded for the fourth consecutive year by tripadvisor.com, the 5* Resort received a Golden Award by travelife.org in acknowledgement for its high commitment to sustainability. Olympia Golden Beach Resort & Spa does not only know how to turn its visitors’ vacation into a trip to luxury but also commits to a responsible sustainability performance during their journey!
Travelife helps its members to develop good sustainable practices and to promote their achievements within the travel industry and to European and international consumers. Olympia Golden Beach Resort & Spa worked hard in order to satisfy extensive sustainability criteria and also encouraged others to the same direction, therefore the Travelife Golden Award came as a very important moral reward for its good practice.
A responsible environmental management and a proper social policy are both as much important to the Olympia Golden Beach Resort & Spa as the satisfaction of its visitors. The use of environmentally friendly products, the recycling of materials and the continuous training of our employees on how to work in an environmentally responsible manner as well as on the protection of the human rights, are only some of our initiatives of which we make sure to inform our visitors in order to promote environmental awareness and also to respect the human factor. Whilst ensuring that the quality of the food did not compromise the comfort of our guests, we have significantly increased our cooperation with local suppliers, producers and manufacturers and this way we have managed not only to reduce CO2 emissions from transportation but also to achieve a more authentic local dining experience for our visitors and to share the economic benefit of our operation with as many businesses as possible in the local area. With initiatives such as employing 80% of its workforce from the local community, cooperating with the municipality with regards to recycling facilities and pavement resurfacing and donating items that are no longer suitable for use within the hotel to local organisations, Hotel Olympia Golden Beach Resort & Spa helps preserve the vital community fabric that forms part of our unique hospitality product. Also, the hotel unit keeps continuously organizing seminars for its employees so that they are enriching their abilities on the labor sector.
