ONYX Hospitality Group, the celebrated Bangkok-based hospitality firm recognized for its inns and resorts, serviced residences and luxurious residences – Amari, OZO, Shama and Oriental Residence – is proud to announce vital developments in its sustainability journey. The corporate is honored to be the primary hospitality administration firm within the Asia-Pacific area to announce a long-term dedication to work with UNESCO for cultural sustainability. Together with setting a objective to realize carbon neutrality, this vital partnership marks a milestone in ONYX’s dedication to sustainability.
ONYX Hospitality Group’s work with UNESCO focuses on cultural sustainability, aiming to protect and promote cultural heritage and community-based tourism throughout Asia and the Pacific. The dedication particularly applies to cities the place ONYX Hospitality Group inns and resorts are situated, which at the moment contains a powerful presence in a number of international locations within the APAC area, ie Thailand, Malaysia, China together with Hong Kong, Bangladesh and Laos.
With a daring imaginative and prescient, ONYX Hospitality Group is on observe to exceed 50 properties by 2025, aiming for a powerful portfolio of 70 by 2028. These bold targets are completely aligned with the disclosing of latest sustainability initiatives, reinforcing ONYX Hospitality Group’s dedication to “A Personalized Method to Hospitality.” As the corporate continues its quest to turn out to be “Southeast Asia’s Greatest Mid-Measurement Hospitality Administration Firm”, the synergy between robust enlargement and improved sustainability practices underscores ONYX Hospitality Group’s dedication to excellence.
Amidst this progress trajectory, ONYX Hospitality Group locations nice significance on strengthening its dedication to sustainability, recognizing the crucial to scale back journey footprints. On this quest, ONYX Hospitality Group is just not solely shaping the current, however envisioning a future the place the following generations can take pleasure in the identical journey privileges. Anchored within the perception that even small modifications can produce transformative results, ONYX Hospitality Group is devoted to driving optimistic change within the trade’s sustainability panorama.
The partnership with UNESCO is a part of ONYX Hospitality Group’s new sustainability framework, which is structured round 4 pillars carefully linked to the corporate’s title:
- Alternative “O” – Offering essential assist to poor people and organizations to supply applicable alternatives.
- “N” Nature – Selling environmental consciousness similar to group involvement initiatives, waste administration, air pollution management and biodiversity conservation.
- Youth “Y” – participation within the improvement of youthful generations by offering academic assist, capability constructing and studying experiences.
- “X” cooperation – institution of long-term alliances for cooperation on selling sustainability in tradition, society and group. Creating partnerships with suppliers and organizations, all sharing the frequent objective of serving communities, preserving the setting and supporting cultural tasks.
In collaboration with UNESCO, ONYX Hospitality Group will seamlessly combine cultural and up to date experiences in its inns and resorts. This initiative goals to not solely showcase and join with the colourful native tradition, but additionally invitations visitors to immerse themselves in these distinctive and enriching experiences and really feel a real connection to the encompassing location, which in flip will maintain such intangible heritage for generations to come back.
Cultural sensitivity and involvement of the local people play a key position within the enchancment of the hospitality trade. Within the context of inventive tourism, this potential to interactively incorporate native tradition and custom creates distinctive and memorable experiences for visitors, including depth and authenticity to inns. This method permits vacationers to attach extra deeply with the vacation spot and the local people. Profitable examples of cultural integration embody showcasing native delicacies, conventional performances, or collaborating with native artisans and designers – actions that convey financial worth to the group and its neighborhood whereas enriching the visitor expertise. These initiatives not solely present a richer expertise for visitors, but additionally contribute considerably to the socio-economic improvement and upkeep of the host group.
ONYX Hospitality Group is proud to assist the UNESCO undertaking ‘Reaching Sustainable Tourism with Intangible Cultural Heritage and Artistic Community of Cities in ASEAN Waterway Cities.’ As a part of this collaboration, ONYX Hospitality Group hosted an official launch with UNESCO on February 3, 2024 at Amari Bangkok.
As well as, ONYX Hospitality Group is embarking on a pioneering initiative with WWF Thailand via the Sustainable Consumption and Manufacturing Challenge. The main focus is on laying the foundations and reworking ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) rules, encouraging sustainable meals methods, biodiversity conservation, environmental safety, conservation tasks and group engagement.
Moreover, carbon neutrality, with the last word objective of reaching Web Zero Operations, stands because the cornerstone of ONYX Hospitality Group’s dedication to Thailand and the worldwide group, completely aligning with ONYX Hospitality Group’s core enterprise targets and operational ethos. In 2023, 11 properties underneath the administration of ONYX Hospitality Group obtained the group’s carbon footprint certificates from the Thai Greenhouse Gasoline Administration Group (TGO), marking a big milestone. This achievement lays a stable basis, and ONYX Hospitality Group stays steadfast in its dedication to increasing this initiative to all properties transferring ahead.
The brand new sustainability initiatives mirror ONYX Hospitality Group’s dedication to sustainability by addressing a variety of sustainability facets, from cultural preservation to accountable consumption and environmental safety, whereas seamlessly woven into the material of the Group’s varied product manufacturers, companies and tradition. They reveal ONYX Hospitality Group’s proactive angle in aligning its operations with world sustainability targets and selling accountable tourism inside the trade.