2024
Certificate number: BHO 005/2024 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.
Hilton Porto Gaia
Certificate number: BHO 005/2024 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
Hilton Porto Gaia is striving to create its own Biosphere Sustainability Plan, do you want to know more?
The global sustainability of Hilton Porto Gaia
A Biosphere Sustainability Plan such as Hilton Porto Gaia translates not only into a commitment to sustainability, but also into a contribution with significant impact.
- They adopt labor measures for gender equality.
- They care about knowing and improving the satisfaction of their customers.
- They take measures to prevent food waste.
Attributes
Food and beverages
Eco and Environment
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 Hilton Porto Gaia:
The sustainability of the processes of catchment, supply, sanitation and treatment of the resource is guaranteed in the following way:
- They adopt measures to avoid contaminating the waters with their activity.
- They care about the quality and cleanliness of their water systems.
- They carry out campaigns to inform and raise awareness about cleanliness and the responsible use of water.
- They apply measures to reuse water in their facilities.
- Its facilities encourage you to consume less water and more efficiently.
The company contributes to ensuring and promoting universal access to clean, smart and modern energy services:
- 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 Hilton Porto Gaia to fight against this scourge.
The entity implements sustainable consumption and production patterns, for example:
- They collaborate with other entities to promote sustainability in the territory.
- They apply responsible production and consumption criteria.
- They adopt measures to minimize the waste they generate with their activity.
- They promote the 3Rs in their facilities and production models: reduce, recycle and reuse.
- They control, monitor and report on the management of their waste and impacts.
As a global response to climate change, the entity carries out actions such as:
- They encourage sustainable mobility.
Sustainable business management must include the perspective of respect for the marine environment and its resources. In this sense, Hilton Porto Gaia has carried out the following actions:
To strive for sustainable underwater life, from this entity:
- They support more sustainable uses of marine resources.
- They promote the respectful use of beaches and marine environments.
- They collaborate to prevent pollution of the seas, oceans and rivers.
As a strategy and measures relating to the prevention of negative impacts, from this entity:
- They strive to prevent the degradation of terrestrial ecosystems and habitats.
- They act to reduce the impacts of their activity on biodiversity.
- They carry out activities that respect the natural heritage and the local fauna.
Society and Culture
Hilton Porto Gaia's efforts to fight poverty are growing, read on to learn more:
In order to promote inclusive economic development, from this entity:
- They promote social-economic growth in their environment.
- They participate in international humanitarian solidarity projects.
- They collaborate with programs and social projects in their environment.
Hilton Porto Gaia has decided to strive to improve the well-being of others through initiatives related to Sustainable Development Goal 3.
To promote healthy activities and prevent health risks:
- They apply safety and risk prevention measures.
- They implement sanitary measures against Covid and other infectious pathologies.
- They collaborate with health systems in favor of collective health.
- They participate in projects aimed at promoting better health for people.
To ensure the existence of inclusive and quality training:
- They care about training their staff.
- They promote knowledge about sustainable development.
To become a powerful tool for women's empowerment, from this entity:
- They adopt labor measures for gender equality.
- They promote labor empowerment in their work systems.
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, Hilton Porto Gaia has decided to:
To work to avoid the pernicious effects of overcrowding, from this entity:
- They promote the conservation of the local cultural and natural heritage.
- They provide information and access to accessible and more sustainable transport.
- They offer information about the local heritage and the traditions of the place.
- Its offer includes local cultural products and activities.
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 care about knowing and improving the satisfaction of their customers.
- They inform about the available public services and the places of interest of the place.
- They promote more responsible and participatory management systems.
- They use indicators to measure quality
- They apply policies against all forms of corruption and exploitation
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 Hilton Porto Gaia has managed to prove it.
To ensure a responsible consumption model, actions are carried out, such as:
- They prioritize and publicize products from local agriculture and KM0.
- Its gastronomic offer is prepared following health safety protocols.
- They take measures to prevent food waste.
The creation of decent and productive employment is one of the fundamental pillars of economic and sustainable growth, which is why Hilton Porto Gaia 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 offer quality employment, promoting local hiring and training.
- They protect and respect the labor and equality rights of their workers.
We all have to put ourselves at the service of the communities, and to this end, in this entity:
- Prioritise the use of new technologies for more sustainable activity.
- Adopt resilience measures in the face of eventualities and disasters.
To incorporate equality criteria, in this entity:
- Facilitate universal accessibility for their customers and workers.
- They apply social integration, non-discriminatory and inclusive policies.
Now, more than ever, it is time to unite and cooperate for sustainability. From Biosphere we congratulate Hilton Porto Gaia for their efforts in SDG 17, an SDG perhaps more complex than the rest, but more necessary than ever.
It is necessary to build alliances for sustainability. To this end:
- They collaborate with academic institutions in favor of sustainable development.
- They create agreements and alliances in favor of sustainability
- They share their good practices and sustainable experiences with other entities.
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