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Green meetings: Sustainability by design

Arrive, stay overnight, meet and simply feel good:

Guests of Leonardo Hotels our hotels travel in an environmentally friendly manner – and help protect the planet. The reason: We follow a strict ESG strategy and are committed to people and the environment. The list of our sustainability measures is over 160 points long and is implemented consistently – throughout our entire company.

For meeting planners, this means: They can organise meetings with low emissions – and positively influence the ecological footprint of their company. This already starts with the journey: Using our DB Event Ticket, conference participants travel to their events at our hotels in a 100 percent climate-neutral way and at a particularly low price – thanks to a partnership between Leonardo Hotels and Deutsche Bahn.

On site, the guest journey continues in a sustainable manner: from saving valuable resources and reducing emissions to efficient energy management – we have a comprehensive climate protection strategy. By the end of 2024, all hotels in the Leonardo Group will be certified with the “Green Key” eco-label. Even today, 70 percent of all hotels cooperate with the “Too good to go” initiative against food waste. And our guests can get involved for a better tomorrow, too. With the “Green Option” they get the opportunity to waive their room cleaning in favour of social projects.

Green meetings: a matter of the heart at Leonardo Hotels.

Our comprehensive and long-term business strategy is based on three main pillars: Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG). For us these pillars are known as Protecting Our Planet (E), Investing in People (S), and Driving Change (G). For each pillar, long-term ambitions have been set. 

Achieving our ESG Ambitions

We have made a firm commitment to our planet and the people on it. To achieve our ESG ambitions in the following years, sustainability will be an integral part of the planning, management and development processes. We commit to communicating the progress made, internally as well as externally. Engaging our workforce, involving all teams in the progress and actively listening to our Green Championswill be a fundamental part of a successful implementation. 
It is well understood concrete goals is only the first step on the path to sustainability and that dedicated effort is needed to implementing our comprehensive strategy.

Environment

Protecting our Planet

Minimising our negative impacts on the environment, including a particular focus on:

  • Resource management
  • Solid waste management
  • Pollution prevention
  • Responsible procurement and supply chain management
  • Biodiversity protection, restoration, and promotion

Social

Investing in People

Focusing on a positive, inclusive culture for staff, members, suppliers, and local communities, including a particular focus on:

  • Fair and equitable treatment of all stakeholders (employees, guests, suppliers, local communities)
  • Staff development and employability
  • Staff and guest engagement (with a vision for a sustainable future)
  • Fostering sustainable communities (while preserving and promoting local heritage and culture)

Governance

Driving Change

becoming a sustainability leader within the hospitality industry. Including a particular focus on:

  • Setting a strategic ESG approach
  • Embedding sustainability within business operations
  • Regularly reviewing and reporting on ESG performance and control
  • Aligning the ESG strategy to globally recognised sustainability frameworks and certifications

Key Events

Progress towards each ambition is driven by a clear set of goals and targets, all of which are explained in more detail in
the full strategy below. Setting goals is the first step on the path to sustainability, but dedicated effort is needed to
achieve these ambitions. The key outcomes outlined below offer the path to actually achieving this ESG strategy.

Environment

Implementing a comprehensive resource monitoring system to measure and monitor energy, water and waste consumption by the beginning of 2023. 

Publishing targets for the reduction of energy consumption and the improvement of energy efficiency by mid-2023 

Pursuing the procurement of green energy, wherever it is available, starting in the beginning of 2024
In line with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, calculating at least 67% of full scope 3 carbon emissions associated with waste, travel and value chain activities at the beginning of 2024

Social

Providing dedicated sustainability inductions for new employees by the beginning of 2023

Ensuring anti-corruption policies and the corresponding processes to ensure implementation are in place by mid-2023

Ensuring a modern slavery policy and the corresponding process to ensure its adoption are in place by mid-2023
Ensuring guest services are as sustainable as possible by the end of 2025

Governance

Ensuring there is a process in place to set, monitor and track continuous improvement by mid-2023
Ensuring sustainability-related responsibilities are defined and understood across all Leonardo Hotels Group stakeholders, including owners, management, employees, suppliers and consultancy partners, by the end of 2023
Identifying and implementing a sustainability certification recognised by industry peers and guests by the end of 2024

Ensuring that the sustainability strategy is integrated into wider decision making, including financial planning, by the end of 2025

Find out more in our summary of the
ESG Business Strategy​

Find out more in our summary of the
ESG Business Strategy​

Download ESG STRATEGY

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