Clean, Green record propels Heritance internationally
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Malin Hapugoda
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Heritance Ahungalla
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Managing Director of Aitken Spence Hotels Malin Hapugoda, says the
pioneering global best practices in managing the impacts on the
environment and sustaining win-win relationships with communities and
stakeholders have helped the leading resort operator to expand its
presence overseas.
Hapugoda, who is spearheading the expansion of Aitken Spence’s
present portfolio of 25 hotels and resorts in South Asia and the Middle
East, made his remarks subsequent to the announcement that three of its
resorts have been recognised nationally for championing cleaner
production.
Heritance Ahungalla and Heritance Kandalama bagged the top two awards
under the Services category at the National Cleaner Production Awards
2008, organised by the National Cleaner Production Centre (NCPC)
recently.
Sri Lanka’s NCPC has been functioning for the past six years
promoting cleaner production in over 200 enterprises.
It is a member of United Nations International Development
Organisation’s and United Nations Environment Programme’s global network
of cleaner production centres.
Heritance Ahungalla was also awarded for Excellence in Water
Efficiency and Excellence in Energy Efficiency. Ramada Resort, Kalutara
also managed by Aitken Spence Hotels and Heritance Kandalama received
Certificates of Merit for Energy Efficiency.
NCPC says that the awards recognise progressive companies and service
organisations that have voluntarily adopted cleaner production as a tool
for increasing their production efficiency while at the same time
eliminating or at least minimising their wastes and emissions at source
rather than treating them after they have been generated.
Heritance Kandalama is the first hotel in Asia to be certified by
Green Globe 21 and the first in the world to be certified under
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).
Heritance Ahungalla, formerly The Triton, is Sri Lanka’s first
five-star beach resort which had won the Thomas Cook Best Property award
and the Kouni Green Planet Award.
Heritance Hotels and Resorts which is steadily building a reputation
for bringing the local flavour to life in each of its outstanding
resorts is expected to commence operations of its first property in
India, the Heritance Madurai later this year. |
