Palladium Hotel Group

Palladium Hotel Group is a Spanish hotel chain with fifty years of experience, owned by Grupo Empresas Matutes (GEM). The chain has 48 hotels and more than 14,000 rooms in six countries: Spain, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Italy and Brazil, and operates 10 brands: TRS Hotels, Grand Palladium Hotels & Resorts, Palladium Hotels, Palladium Boutique Hotels, Fiesta Hotels & Resorts, Ushuaïa Unexpected Hotels, BLESS Collection Hotels, Ayre Hoteles, Only YOU Hotels, as well as licensed brand Hard Rock Hotels in Ibiza and Tenerife. Palladium Hotel Group’s hotels are characterised by their philosophy of offering customers a high standard of quality in its products and services and excellent value.

Countries

Spain

Commitments:

Accommodation Providers (Chains)

Global Tourism Plastics Initiative

In the framework of the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative, the Palladium Hotel Group commits to:

Eliminating single-portion or single-serving packaging from their bathrooms by 2024.
Eliminating plastic items from their food and drink services by 2025.
Eliminating plastic packaging from their kitchens by 2025.
Boosting the circular economy by promoting the re-use of materials.
Introducing reusable solutions to replace single-portion or single-serving packaging in their bathrooms by 2024.
Introducing reusable solutions to replace plastic items in their food and drink services by 2025.
Introducing reusable solutions to replace plastic packaging in their kitchens by 2025.
Engaging the value chain to provide data on recyclability and compostability of plastic packaging to facilitate the move towards 100% of plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025 by engaging suppliers to provide data on recyclability and compostability, of plastic packaging, and by establishing procurement criteria on reusability, recyclability, and compostability, as well as a 2025 target on % of plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable, or compostable.
Taking action to increase the amount of recycled content across all plastic packaging and items used by 2025 by engaging suppliers to provide data on % of recycled content in plastic packaging and items, and by establishing procurement criteria on % of recycled content in packaging and items, as well as target of % of recycled content in packaging and items by 2025.
Collaborating with others and investing in collection and segregation of recyclable and organic materials in their facilities to help increase recycling and composting rates in practice by providing proper training and means for staff to sort solid waste (especially plastic waste), according to local regulations, sustainability standards, and/or technical guidance from waste management service provider, by engaging waste service providers to receive information on recycling rates, and factors contributing/affecting them, by engaging other business and key stakeholders to discuss and take action to improve the performance of waste service providers (e.g. recycling rates), and by investing resources ($, time, personnel) to promote innovation that results in increased recycling rates, either through actions at own operation or elsewhere in the process.