Sustainable development

Goals

Achievements

• Short-term: Build knowledge about nutrition and food within the community and participate in at least one support activity annually.
• Long-term: Promote community engagement and feedback, with at least one development discussion meeting held annually.

• Continuously participate in government and private sector programs to provide food and essential living supplies to communities.
• Organize food-sharing projects for communities around the hotel areas.
• Conduct meal programs for children in schools located near the hotel.
• Grow kitchen gardens (Chef’s Garden) within the hotel premises to supply ingredients for food preparation.

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Achievements

• Short-term: Do not obstruct community water usage and organize activities to raise awareness about sustainable water use.
• Long-term: Reduce water consumption by at least 5% from the baseline year

• Produced over 140,000 bottles of clean drinking water annually for hotel consumption.
• Conducted assessments and improvements of water management systems to prepare for potential water shortages, such as building water storage tanks and collecting rainwater.
• Utilized standardized water treatment systems with regular water quality monitoring and reused treated water within the hotel.
• Supported local communities in accessing clean water sources, such as improving drinking water systems in community schools.

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Achievements

• Short-term: Upgrade electrical equipment to reduce energy consumption by 5% and increase clean energy usage to 10% by 2025.
• Long-term: Increase the proportion of renewable energy to 15% by 2030.

• Installed solar panels with a total capacity of 3.72 megawatts
• Generated a total of 3.98 million kilowatt-hours of electricity from clean energy sources

Goals

Achievements

• Short-term goal: Employ more than 60% local workforce in the Maldives, Implement at least one safety and sustainability training course at each hotel by 2025 and zero work-related accidents
• Long-term goal: Support local procurement at no less than 20%

• Contributed to strengthening the local economy by employing an average of 41% of staff from local communities at self-managed hotels.
• Hired local long-tail boat operators to serve hotel guests at SAii Phi Phi Island Village, with a total value of THB 6.7 million.
• Employed persons with disabilities to work in the Company’s hotels.
• Hotels received various international sustainability certifications such as Green Hotel, Green Globe, EIC Event Standards, Green Key, and other relevant standards.
• Promoted safety for employees and guests through staff training programs, such as occupational health and safety, disaster survival, fire, and tsunami response training.

Goals

Achievements

• Short-term: No complaints from the community, and environmentally friendly construction materials are used in hotel renovations.
• Long-term: Collaborate with local authorities on waste management initiatives that are recognized and accepted by the community.

• Implement collaborative projects with local communities to develop surrounding island areas, such as increasing green spaces and aquatic habitats through mangrove reforestation initiatives.
• Preserve local culture through activities like crafting and floating krathongs
• Support the preservation of local culture through the Maldives Discovery Center, a cultural learning hub at the CROSSROADS project in the Maldives, which welcomed 7,061 visitors in 2024.
• No complaints or fines were reported regarding non-compliance with social and environmental governance laws and regulations.
• Environmentally friendly construction and decorative materials were used.

Goals

Achievements

• Short-term goal: Reduce food waste by 10% at the CROSSROADS Maldives project by 2025 and donate surplus food to local communities near hotels in Thailand.
• Long-term goal: Achieve a 50% reduction in food waste across all hotels by 2030.

• Delivered 143 kilograms of plastic waste to Parley for recycling.
• Organized beach and surrounding area clean-up activities in collaboration with guests and local communities, collecting a total of 4.6 tons of waste.

Goals

Achievements

• Short-term goal: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 5% compared to the base year.
• Long-term goal: Achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2030 and use at least 10% clean energy.

• Utilized clean energy accounting for 10.59% of total electricity consumption.
• Installed smart technologies such as door and window sensors in guest rooms at hotels in both Thailand and the Maldives.
• Replaced air conditioners in guest rooms with units using eco-friendly refrigerants.
• Expanded green areas to absorb carbon dioxide by participating in the reforestation project at Singha Park, Chiang Rai.

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Achievements

• Short-term goal: Organize at least one awareness activity per year on marine biodiversity.
• Long-term goals:
  Increase biodiversity by 30% by 2030 and provide marine education to 50,000 people per year through the Maldives Discovery Center (MDC).

• Educate tourists on marine life and promote conservation awareness, with 26,572 visitors through Marine Discovery Centre (MDC)
• Approximately 8,894 square meters of coral reefs, an increase of 874 square meters or 11.04% from the previous year
  • Planted 1,213 coral fragments in the Maldives to preserve biodiversity

• Rescue marine animals entangled in fishing gear or stranded on beaches
•  217 marine species listed as protected under the IUCN Red List was found
• The MDC released 5 sharks back into the sea in 2024

Goals

Achievements

• Short-term: Establish at least one collaboration among government, private sector, and civil society
• Long-term: Share sustainability knowledge at national/international forums at least once a year and lead the creation of networks for sustainable development

• Participated in 4 strong sustainability networks and collaborated with government, private sector, and civil society in various projects.
•  Collaborated with the Ministry of Climate Change, Environment & Energy of the Republic of Maldives to conserve biodiversity over an area of more than 3.15 square kilometers, covering approximately 31% of the CROSSROADS project area, as part of the OECMs (Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures) conservation plan.