Under the international neighborhood’s guarantee to accomplish the United Nations Sustainable Advancement Goals (SDGs), lots of efforts have actually been established that over the long-lasting goal to make the world a much better location. Even little actions can develop to form the brand-new world.
” AWC identifies the significance of sustainable tourist and is happy to sign up with forces with TAT and partners throughout the worth chain to drive sustainable tourist, raising Thailand as a worldwide sustainable travel location, and ‘constructing a much better future’ for the nation”– Mrs. Wallapa Traisorat, CEO and President, AWC
Property World Corp Public Business Limited (AWC), Thailand’s leading incorporated way of life real-estate group, has actually established efforts which might be little in scale however their effects are tremendous.
AWC is dedicated to sustainable service operations that follow both nationwide and global structures and comply with producing worth in all measurements and prioritise every action of business from the start to providing worth to its stakeholders. It creates and explains sustainability methods making use of AWC’s sustainability policy as a standard and product problems as thorough info of the business threats and chances.
The business has actually established a 2020-2025 tactical strategy to detail 3 clear functional structures to cultivate AWC’s sustainable advancement.
The Sustainability Structure and Objectives have actually been gotten with a detailed idea to browse the business’s engagement in the 3 pillars and 6 measurements of sustainability: environment method, circular economy, human capital advancement, occupational health and wellness, social and neighborhood combination, and worth development.
The GALLERY
Mrs. Wallapa Traisorat, President and President of AWC, stated that the efforts to accomplish the sustainable advancement structure are done under the motivation of 3BETTERs, which are Much Better World, Better Individuals and Better Success, with an objective to “Construct a Much Better Future”.
BETTER world intends to shift towards carbon neutrality and circular economy service operations from preparation, building and construction, management, and administration procedures. It teams up with partners to incorporate the global structure into the task advancement in accordance with green structure requirements.
Second Of All, BETTER individuals consists of the advancement to improve occupational health and wellness operations in the organisation. It likewise includes cooperation with regional neighborhoods to improve understanding and profession advancement to produce sustainable earnings through “The GALLERY”, a task that offers a market to function items developed by Thai artists in the regional neighborhood. AWC plans to welcome partners and neighborhoods to get in touch with “The GALLERY” to include more creative productions as a circulation channel, reaching consumers all over the world.
And lastly, BETTER success prepares business methods in line with the National Economic and Social Advancement Strategy. Through financial investment and management of different realty jobs of AWC, constructing more professions for individuals, producing earnings for neighborhoods and regional organizations, producing more worth and strong environments to raise Thailand as a worldwide sustainable tourist location and promote the nation’s rapid financial development.
Mrs. Wallapa Traisorat, CEO and President, AWC and Mr. Yuthasak Supasorn, Guv, TAT
Contribution of quality surplus food to the neighborhood with SOS Thailand
Under the objective of “Construct a Much Better Future”, Mrs. Wallapa stated that another action the business has actually taken is to sign up with hands with the Tourist Authority of Thailand (TAT) to drive sustainable tourist and empower the nation as a “Worldwide Sustainable Tourist Location”.
TAT remains in the procedure of developing a brand-new basic structure to support sustainable tourist and intends to welcome and support business owners in the Thai tourist market to join this cooperation in accordance with the structure of sustainable tourist advancement. This will be the structure for Thailand to end up being a worldwide sustainable tourist location in a concrete and quality method accordance with global requirements in the future.
” AWC identifies the significance of sustainable tourist and is happy to sign up with forces with TAT and partners throughout the worth chain to drive sustainable tourist, raising Thailand as a worldwide sustainable travel location, and ‘Structure a Much Better Future’ for the nation. AWC, dealing with partners from all sectors and global hotel chains, intends to bring all homes to TAT’s brand-new basic accreditation in the sustainable tourist classification,” she stated.
She kept in mind that AWC has actually complied with TAT in driving and being a centre for all business owners to develop sustainable worth in tourist together.
It likewise shares sustainability objectives with economic sector partners, leading banks and global hotel chains such as Marriott, Banyan Tree, Okura, Hilton, IHG and Melia.
The Athenee Hotel, a High-end Collection Hotel, Bangkok
They all stress the significance of sustainable tourist to drive Thailand’s sustainable financial development together with its continuous jobs for long-lasting sustainability.
On The Other Hand, TAT is positive that the shared cooperation can drive sustainable tourist, particularly an effort to improve the “sustainable tourist” requirement. It has actually intended to be a synergy centre to support Thai business owners to run sustainably and set brand-new requirements for them in line with the SDGs. Such a sustainable advancement structure has actually put a concentrate on the ecological measurement, neighborhood economy and regional culture to promote Thailand as a worldwide sustainable tourist location.
To enhance its strong position of the 3BETTERs, AWC has actually just recently released the “AWC Alliances for Better Future” task to drive its objective of “Structure a Better Future”, under close cooperation with its 2 essential partners: Ikigai, a specialist in food cycle sustainability with an innovative service design from upstream to downstream, and Scholars of Nourishment Structure (SOS Thailand), the very first food rescue structure to handle and lower food waste through the contribution of quality surplus food to the neighborhood.
The task is under the circular economy idea to drive food and surplus food management to increase the advantages while producing holistic worth for the environment, society and regional neighborhoods.
Mrs. Wallapa stated that the business wishes to improve the strength of, and thoroughly broaden, the food cycle management of the business’s hospitality service, that includes objectives to move on to long-lasting sustainable development and to raise Thailand to end up being a worldwide sustainability location.
She included that food waste has actually long been a concern in the neighborhood, which the business is dedicated to enhancing through the advancement of food management jobs in AWC associated hotels. This consists of The Athenee Hotel, a High-end Collection Hotel, Bangkok, which was the very first hotel worldwide to get the one hundred percent All-Star award from The promise on Food Waste after it decreased food waste in accordance with UN requirements. In addition, Hilton Sukhumvit Bangkok got the Food Waste Hero Quality Award 2021 from SOS Thailand.
” We wish to welcome partners who share the exact same worths to collaborate for ‘Structure a Much better future’ under the task as we do think in the alliances’ power in producing robust sustainability management. Through this, they are assisting take on the issues triggered by disposing of big quantities of food waste. The task has likewise highlighted the business’s dedication to lower waste-to-landfill from its operations to no by 2030,” she stated.
Organic The Athenee Hotel, a High-end Collection Hotel, Bangkok farm in Chiang Mai
Quality surplus food will be contributed to neighborhoods and impoverished groups in Bangkok, Phuket, Hua Hin, and Chiang Mai, while other food waste will be utilized as animal feed and composting.
In cooperation with AWC, SOS Thailand has actually provided surplus food to 178 regional neighborhoods, with 158,580 meals to develop equivalent access to quality food for individuals. On the other hand, by 2025, SOS Thailand intends to provide 40 million meals from surplus food to regional neighborhoods, supported by AWC, which is dedicated to broadening their food management operations to all hotels under AWC situated in Bangkok and broadening to their retail homes.
AWC has actually likewise dedicated to executing its sustainable advancement method throughout its operations and jobs. The Athenee Hotel Bangkok, for instance, is the very first hotel worldwide to be certificated ISO 20121, a sustainable management requirement.
Presently, AWC’s portfolio includes 19 hospitality, 9 retail, 4 business and 2 wholesale organizations, amounting to 34 jobs. There are 15 brand-new jobs under advancement, consisting of the InterContinental Chiang Mai Mae Ping Hotel and INNSIDE Bangkok Sukhumvit. These jobs are being built under green structure requirements and have actually gotten EDGE accreditation. They will be open by very first half of 2023.
AWC’s other jobs that will fulfill the green structure basic consist of Aquatique the Beach front Pattaya that intends to accomplish LEED accreditation by 2026, while the extension of Asiatique The Riverfront Location intends to accomplish LEED & & WELL accreditation by 2029.
AWC continues to run under the structure of sustainable advancement and has actually been associated with Sustainability Indexes at both nationwide and global levels, noted on the Thailand Sustainability Financial Investment (THSI) of The Stock Market of Thailand for a 2nd successive year, ranked AA in the MSCI ESG Rankings and noted in the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook 2022 as a member in the Hotels, Resorts & & Cruise Lines subindustry index, ranked “Quality CG Scoring” in the Business Governance Report and licensed by the Thai Economic Sector Collective Action Versus Corruption (CAC).
