Environment

Employees at the Holiday Inn Bandung, Indonesia take part in an environmental preservation project.

Now in its third year, this program puts into action the concept of taking steps today to protect our natural resources in order to ensure the sustainability of the environment for our children and succeeding generations.

InterContinental Hotels Group 2001 Conserving Our Planet Winners

The Conserving Our Planet program is a means of putting into actual practice the key tenets of the InterContinental Hotels Group Environmental Policy. The contest was open to both hotel employees and their children.

Hotel-level submissions contained the following criteria:

1. Involvement in local environmental clean-up events.
2. Participation in the Conserving For Tomorrow program.
3. Completion of Environmental Self-Audit.
4. Fund-raising to benefit the United States for UNICEF's global clean water campaign.

Three general managers (one from each region) have won ONE MILLION Priority Club^® points. They are:

Americas: Daniel Blachut -- Crowne Plaza, Toronto Centre
Asia Pacific: Prahasto Soebroto -- Holiday Inn, Bandung, Indonesia
EMEA: Malcolm Rann -- InterContinental, Asmara, Eritrea

The Children's Contest:

Children of hotel staff submitted entries that visually illustrated "How I Can Make A Difference" to preserve the environment at home, at school, and in the community. The winning entries best illustrate the following criteria:

1. Originality and practicality
2. Impact on the environment
3. Creativity
4. Geographic and community relevance

Six children (two from each region -- one pre-teen and one teen) won fully-loaded iMac desktop computers. They are:

Americas
Name: Edgardo Alejandro Garza Castro
Age: 11
Hotel: Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites, Tampico, Mexico

Name: Prichila Kirubakaran
Age: 13
Hotel: Holiday Inn On King, Toronto

Asia Pacific
Name: Ashish Shrestha
Age: 12
Hotel: Crowne Plaza, Soaltee, Nepal

Name: Narissara Boonsarn
Age: 14
Hotel: Crowne Plaza, Bangkok, Thailand

EMEA
Name: Achintha de Alwis
Age: 9
Hotel: Hotel InterContinental, Dubai

Name: Meron Akalu
Age: 14
Hotel: Hotel InterContinental, Asmara

Another important and popular aspect of the Conserving Our Planet program is hotel participation in the Conserving For Tomorrow initiative, the company's linens and towels reuse program. Conserving For Tomorrow saves approximately 6,000 gallons of water and 40 gallons of detergent monthly (based on an average-sized 150-room hotel) by asking guests to use towels and bed linens more than once during their stay.

To find out more about the global corporate responsibility activities of InterContinental Hotels Group PLC or one of its subsidiaries, take a look at the company's Group Environmental and Social Report 2002 and the quarterly online "Our Planet" publication.