Emaar Hospitality Group, the hospitality and leisure business of Emaar Properties PJSC, and Rove Hotels - a joint endeavor of Meraas Holding and Emaar Properties PJSC, have signed up with hands with Emirates Green Building Council (EmiratesGBC), an independent forum aimed at preserving the atmosphere by strengthening and advertising green building methods, to protect the 'Green Key' certification for all its functional hotels and leisure possessions in Dubai.

EmiratesGBC is the UAE's National Operator for the Green Key accreditation, a criterion of excellence in the area of ecological sustainability and lasting procedure within the tourism industry. The contract was authorized by Olivier Harnisch, Chief Executive Officer of Emaar Hospitality Group, and Saeed Al Abbar, Chairman of EmiratesGBC.

Initially, Emaar Hospitality Group and Rove Hotels aim to have 15 hospitality and leisure assets in Dubai Green Key licensed. These will consist of all operational resorts under the 3 way of living hotel brand names under Emaar Hospitality Group, and Emaar Recreation Group assets such as Arabian Ranches Golf Club and Dubai Polo & Rider Club in addition to all Rove hotels.

Olivier Harnisch said: "Throughout our resorts and leisure assets, we have an abiding dedication to maintain the highest requirements of power and water utilize effectiveness along with ecological ideal techniques. These properties have actually already released internal green methods and have committed teams sustaining the goal to 'go green' in accordance with the UAE Green Schedule and the Dubai Strategy 2021. The Green Key certification will certainly be a crowning magnificence that will certainly highlight our ecological stewardship and concentrate on sustainable advancement for a greener tourism industry."

Saeed Al Abbar added: "As the National Operator of the Green Key certification, we have actually been functioning very closely with the UAE's hospitality industry to advertise environmental ideal methods. Having earlier embarked on a green hotel benchmarking programme, we totally recognize the requirements and goals of the hospitality drivers. Emaar Hospitality Group and Rove Hotels are top quality UAE hospitality operators, and with the arrangement, we will support them in driving and setting sustainability criteria that will certainly serve as a model for the industry."

Created in 1994 in Denmark and globally operated by Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) because 2002, the Green Key accreditation is being operated by EmiratesGBC in the UAE since 2013. To this day, over 30 hotels in the UAE have actually been Green Key certified with considerable growing interest from other industry stakeholders.

Supported by both United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UN WTO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Green Key is the biggest global ecolabel operating in 56 nations and operates as a non-governmental, non-commercial and independent program. Safeguarding the Green Key accreditation adds worth of the hotels and properties and functions as a mark of global recognition of ecological obligation.

EmiratesGBC will certainly deal with each of the hotel properties and will certainly conduct the initial of the Green Key audits in very early 2018 adhering to entry of the complete application from Emaar Hospitality Group and Rove Hotels. Application of the Green Key requirements will certainly be crucial, and resorts will be audited the initial 2 years then every three years to guarantee they operate to the requirements set by Green Key and continuously boost operations and ecological efficiency.

The properties under Address Hotels + Resorts, a costs luxury hotel and homes brand, that will certainly pursue the Green Key qualification are: Address Blvd, Address Dubai Shopping Center, Address Dubai Marina, Address Montgomerie, Royal Residence Downtown and the upcoming Address Downtown.

Both hotels under Vida Hotels and Resorts, the upscale lifestyle hotel and residences brand Vida Downtown and Manzil Downtown as well as the four operational hotels Rove Downtown, Rove City Centre, Rove Healthcare City and Rove Trade Centre - under Rove Hotels, will work towards the Green key certification.

The certification will be supplied after due persistance by EmiratesGBC, making sure that assets uphold the worldwide standards of Green Key covering locations such as environmental monitoring, staff involvement, visitor info, water usage, washing and cleaning, waste administration, power use efficiency, food & beverage handling, high quality of interior environment, green areas, and green activities as part of Emaar Hospitality Group's company social duty.

Matching the Green Key programme, EmiratesGBC likewise performs the Energy & Water Benchmarking for UAE resorts that documents power and water usage and details the potential for financial savings, therefore adding to reduced carbon impact by UAE hotels. As part of the very first benchmarking workout, 46 hotels that offered for the program were benchmarked. EmiratesGBC is currently welcoming resorts in the UAE to take part in the 2018 Structure Performance Accelerator, another free-of-cost benchmarking programme.

Offering the hospitality sector, EmiratesGBC has additionally created and carries out a collection of training components tailored to satisfy the specific needs of hotel properties, covering areas such as green hospitality & sustainability, water administration, power management, accountable procurement, waste administration, indoor air quality, sustainable food & drink, sustainable housing and communications & community development.