2024
Certificate number: BHO 169/2024 RTI
The Biosphere Certified badge is awarded after verifying that sustainable practices are being implemented correctly. It guarantees that the entity is fulfilling its commitments.
Arantza Hotela
Certificate number: BHO 169/2024 RTI
The Biosphere Certified badge is awarded after verifying that sustainable practices are being implemented correctly. It guarantees that the entity is fulfilling its commitments.
Sustainability efforts
Did you know that Arantza Hotela has committed to the following sustainable actions? Learn more below:
The global sustainability of Arantza Hotela
We can confirm that Arantza Hotela has completed a large part of our catalog of Biosphere activities, accrediting dozens of best practices to our audit team. What a feat!
- Its offer includes local cultural products and activities.
- They apply social integration, non-discriminatory and inclusive policies.
- They use indicators to measure quality
Attributes
Food and beverages
Authentic entertainment
Mobility
Eco and Environment
Climate Change
Accessibility
Think Global, Act Local
Sustainability areas
Environment and Climate Change
The actions of a sustainable entity must provide solutions to the water crisis and the lack of resources. These are the different contributions offered by Arantza Hotela:
The sustainability of the processes of catchment, supply, sanitation and treatment of the resource is guaranteed in the following way:
- They carry out campaigns to inform and raise awareness about cleanliness and the responsible use of water.
- They adopt measures to avoid contaminating the waters with their activity.
- Its facilities encourage you to consume less water and more efficiently.
- They care about the quality and cleanliness of their water systems.
- They apply measures to reuse water in their facilities.
According to the UN, access to electricity in the poorest countries has begun to accelerate, while energy efficiency continues to improve and renewable energy is achieving excellent results. Arantza Hotela is doing its bit in the following ways:
The company contributes to ensuring and promoting universal access to clean, smart and modern energy services:
- They prioritize the use of green and more renewable energy sources.
- They carry out awareness campaigns on the use of energy.
- They adopt energy efficiency measures in their facilities.
Did you know that, according to UNEP, 931 million meals are wasted in the world every year? Here are the efforts it is making Arantza Hotela to fight against this scourge.
The entity implements sustainable consumption and production patterns, for example:
- They control, monitor and report on the management of their waste and impacts.
- They apply responsible production and consumption criteria.
- They adopt measures to minimize the waste they generate with their activity.
- They prioritize the purchase and consumption of local and sustainable products and services.
- They promote the 3Rs in their facilities and production models: reduce, recycle and reuse.
- They collaborate with other entities to promote sustainability in the territory.
A company not only contributes to climate change, but is also affected by it. That is why Arantza Hotela is developing an enabling framework to reduce emissions and create a better world.
As a global response to climate change, the entity carries out actions such as:
- They measure and offset the carbon footprint of their activity.
- They encourage sustainable mobility.
- They promote resilience to climate change.
To strive for sustainable underwater life, from this entity:
- They collaborate to prevent pollution of the seas, oceans and rivers.
From Biosphere we congratulate Arantza Hotela for measures such as the prevention of negative impacts, or the conservation and restoration of landscapes, biodiversity and geodiversity. Read on to know the rest.
As a strategy and measures relating to the prevention of negative impacts, from this entity:
- They act to reduce the impacts of their activity on biodiversity.
- They strive to prevent the degradation of terrestrial ecosystems and habitats.
- They carry out activities that respect the natural heritage and the local fauna.
- They provide information on the natural resources of the territory.
Society and Culture
In order to promote inclusive economic development, from this entity:
- They promote social-economic growth in their environment.
- They collaborate with programs and social projects in their environment.
To promote healthy activities and prevent health risks:
- They collaborate with health systems in favor of collective health.
- They apply safety and risk prevention measures.
- They promote the adoption of healthier lifestyles and habits.
To ensure the existence of inclusive and quality training:
- They promote knowledge about sustainable development.
- They participate in the development of educational projects of other entities.
To become a powerful tool for women's empowerment, from this entity:
- They promote labor empowerment in their work systems.
- They adopt labor measures for gender equality.
The constant urbanization of environments can generate long-term problems, such as forgetting the memory of the community. To avoid these mistakes and meet these challenges, Arantza Hotela has decided to:
To work to avoid the pernicious effects of overcrowding, from this entity:
- They offer information about the local heritage and the traditions of the place.
- They promote the conservation of the local cultural and natural heritage.
- Its offer includes local cultural products and activities.
- They create alliances with local companies to avoid Overtourism.
- They provide information and access to accessible and more sustainable transport.
Democracy is necessary for sustainable development, so we must recognize the efforts of this entity to work on actions such as:
To inspire sincerity and participation, from this entity:
- They use indicators to measure their sustainable progress.
- They apply policies against all forms of corruption and exploitation
- They promote more responsible and participatory management systems.
- They inform about the available public services and the places of interest of the place.
- They care about knowing and improving the satisfaction of their customers.
- They use indicators to measure quality
Governance and Economy
Actions such as the following favor a sustainable use of land and make it possible to achieve responsible consumption patterns. This is not always easy, but Arantza Hotela has managed to prove it.
To ensure a responsible consumption model, actions are carried out, such as:
- Its gastronomic offer is prepared following health safety protocols.
- They take measures to prevent food waste.
- They prioritize and publicize products from local agriculture and KM0.
- For their supplies, they prioritize agri-food products and suppliers that follow more respectful and sustainable practices.
The creation of decent and productive employment is one of the fundamental pillars of economic and sustainable growth, which is why Arantza Hotela has decided to work along these lines.
In this entity, to create decent and productive employment:
- Encourage innovation and continuous improvement among their employees.
- They protect and respect the labor and equality rights of their workers.
- They offer quality employment, promoting local hiring and training.
- They facilitate work-life balance and the employment of less favored groups.
To achieve efficient use of resources we need to innovate and improve our infrastructure and industry. In pursuit of this goal Arantza Hotela undertakes efforts such as:
We all have to put ourselves at the service of the communities, and to this end, in this entity:
- Adopt resilience measures in the face of eventualities and disasters.
- Prioritise the use of new technologies for more sustainable activity.
- They encourage the planning, design and construction of sustainable infrastructures.
- Promote improvements in the infrastructure of the neighbourhood/community around them.
To incorporate equality criteria, in this entity:
- Facilitate universal accessibility for their customers and workers.
- They apply social integration, non-discriminatory and inclusive policies.
It is necessary to build alliances for sustainability. To this end:
- They create agreements and alliances in favor of sustainability
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