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In order to provide our guests with a Balinese experience in terms of culture, environment and ambience, management recognises the need to work in harmony with the local community.
We demonstrate this through achieving recognition with the Bali Tri Hita Karana Awards which promote a balanced relationship between fellow human beings, their God and the environment and through adopting the Green Globe 21 approach to sustainable tourism. To promote our community relationship we commit to select the majority of our employee’s from the local area and region of Gianyar regency. Over 85% of our staff are from local villages.
We utilise fresh local products and services from local suppliers with a preference to those from profit sharing co-operatives organisations and surrounding villages.
It is our commitment to measure our greenhouse gas emissions, energy and fresh water usage, waste water discharges, minimize our solid waste and set targets etc., in all areas to improve our environmental performance through benchmarking with Green Globe 21 every year and to comply with the relevant environmental public and occupational health and safety, hygiene and employment legislation and other requirements of Indonesia to which we are obliged to adhere. Our environmental practices are as per Green Globe 21 requirements including creation of 100% recycled water treatment system in the form of a waste water garden so no effluent is sent into polluting local river and waterways.
We use energy saving light bulbs, encourage recycling and reduced packaging with suppliers and encourage our guests to reuse linen and use bicycles instead of cars for transport. We also offer our guests walking tours and bird watching experiences to appreciate local flora and fauna.
We are very proud to support the East Bali Poverty Project where we are currently working towards providing a sustainable nutrition and education programme for a remote village nestled in the slopes of Mt Abang in northern East Bali called Jatituhu. With the guidance of David Booth (MBE) we and our guests we have been able to make a difference to these children’s lives and offer a future less bleak.
We participate in clean up the world weekend every September combining hotel staff, schools, restaurants, other hotels, environment organisations in local tourism area. We also co-ordinate the presentation of Is it really rubbish play to all the school children to teach about recycling.
We invite every traveller who books a holiday via us to send in a review. Because we don't run the holidays they're completely independent and unedited... remember to read between the lines though, as two people on the same holiday can have different views!
