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Thai hotel group bans plastic

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BANGKOK, 1 June 2018:  AKARYN Hotel Group has pledged to become single-use plastic free hotel group by 2020.

If successful the group will be 10 years ahead of Hilton that has said it will be partially plastic free by 2030.

The hotel group made the pledge during a press conference to announce the group’s soon to open akyra TAS Sukhumvit Bangkok Hotel.

From left: Thomas Singenberger (Hotel Manager of akyra TAS Sukhumvit Bangkok), Areerat Tachasompob and Theerapong Prachakvej owners of akyra TAS Sukhumvit Bangkok), Anchalika Kijkanakorn, founder and managing director of Akaryn Hotel Group, Richard Cohen, Lab Bangkok Fitness Centres.

AKARYN Hotel Group founder and managing director, Anchalika Kijkanakorn, also established Pure Blue Foundation, which is the group’s charity organisation that supports marine conservation projects in Thailand.

It will work with AHG properties to offer stainless steel water bottles to guests when they make a donation to the foundation.

“All Aleenta and akyra hotels aim to become single-use plastic free hotels by 2020,” she explained. “The akyra TAS Sukhumvit Bangkok Hotel is taking the lead on this initiative by becoming the first new hotel in Asia to launch without single-use plastic in its rooms or food and beverage outlets.

“This will be followed by akyra Manor Chiang Mai, which is on track to be free of single-use plastic by August this year,” she added.

Upon check-in, guests at akyra TAS Sukhumvit Bangkok guest will be given an opportunity to donate to the foundation in order to get a stylish Pure Blue Foundation branded stainless steel water bottle that can be refilled throughout their stay.

Self-service drinking water dispensers will be located on every floor of the new hotel to make refills easy and guests will be encouraged to take their bottles with them on excursions around the city.

“We are also encouraging our partners and suppliers to adopt a more environmentally sensitive approach to business, to extend a zero plastic policy into the wider Bangkok community,” she said.

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