Manali accommodation, Himachal Pradesh

The Hotel has been constructed with local materials and traditional design, which maintains the social and cultural values and heritage of the area. The hotel uses local crops, dairy, poultry produce like fresh vegetables, fruits, fruit juices, milk, eggs etc. that are produced in the local area.

All the employees in the hotel are local and most of them are from less privileged classes. We employ local people as guides for the tourist groups to aid interaction with the local people, local bodies, visits to handicraft centres, community welfare centres, weaving centres, village fairs/festivals, historical monuments etc. We offering gifts and souvenirs to the guests that are locally produced such as Himachali caps, mufflers, shawls, socks and other handicraft products which are made from the local material by the community welfare centres, co-operative societies etc.

The hotel is founder member of an orphanage and old age home which is established at about 500 yards distance from the hotel. We donate food grains, fruits, cloths, money etc. every month.

The hotel has eco-friendly solar heating system providing hot water around the clock. After installing the solar system in the hotel, the local people of the area are also inclined to install solar system for their domestic use, which is a great step forward to reduce environmental hazard and to minimize the carbon dioxide’s ill effects. Mostly the local methods of cleaning are eco friendly. The products used for cleaning are made from natural materials. We discourage use of artificial materials etc.

The hotel has a compost pit where kitchen waste and other waste like fallen leaves, rotten material etc. around the hotel are put to make compost/manure, which is used in the kitchen garden of the hotel. The use of plastic bags is banned in the hotel and we ensure that these instructions are meticulously followed by our staff as well as our honoured guests. Such points are told to the guests at travel desk. Our garden is completely organic. Indeed all the local people of this area mostly use cow-dung as manure in the fields and gardens. We purchase fresh vegetables, fruits etc. from locals when our own garden falls short. Regarding wildlife, hunting is prohibited here. This point we make very clear to the guests at travel desk or when some body shows interest in hunting. We have formed women’s associations, youth clubs, community policing committee where the hotel staff actively participate to bring awareness in promoting environment, ecology, wildlife, community welfare projects etc.