Rotana recently launched its sustainability programme Rotana Earth. Tell us about that?
Thomas: We are turning green. We are in the process of rolling out a corporate strategy and setting the guidelines. We are monitored by an outside company and we are rolling it out now to the properties.
Rabih: At all properties now, we have colour coded bins for recycling on every floor, which is something new for us. We have segregated the trash in every restaurant and in all public areas.
Thomas: Keep in mind it’s a lifestyle, it’s not what you can dictate. It depends on how much the general manager is involved and how it is presented in the hotels with the colleagues.
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We are starting with garbage separation. Ten years ago, there was no garbage separation possible because you separated it and the same truck picked it up and put it in the same garbage dump.
Today, it’s a different world out there. Today you have companies who are separating it, who are able to recycle it, or send it out of the country and recycle it there.
Sherif: At each Rotana property, we have an EHS manager - environment health and safety manager. We have monthly meetings about all the actions to be taken and some initiatives to be taken within the hotel. The EHA managers work closely with the government agencies like TCA Abu Dhabi and the municipalities.
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