In my week one post I educated the readers on what the hotel chain, Hyatt is doing to lead the way in the hotel industry regarding sustainability. Hyatt has named their global corporate social responsibility platform, “Hyatt Thrive”. 
Hyatt Thrive is designed to make Hyatt’s communities, places where their associates are proud to work, their guests want to visit, their neighbors want to live and their owners want to invest.
Hyatt Thrive has more than 95,000 associates working for them at over 500 properties around the world. Hyatt’s goal is to bring together teams of passionate people to focus on local projects that contribute to the prosperity and well-being of their communities. Hyatt has four areas that they are focusing on to help the community around them thrive.
The first of the four areas is environmental sustainability. This area of Hyatt Thrive is focused on the commitment to implement more sustainable business practices across their operations. Through a program in their environmental sustainability process, Hyatt Earth, they have been measuring the environmental performance of their managed, full-service hotels against a 2006 baseline. They have continued to set goals to reduce the energy and water they use, the waste they send to landfills, and the greenhouse gases they emit. Hyatt’s environmental sustainability commitment has been based on a simple phrase, “leveraging innovative strategies that reflect the unique environment of their properties around the world, harness the passion of their associates to deliver change and rigorously track and measure their progress.”
Hyatt has initiated Green Teams that help make positive changes in their hotels and communities around the world. Some green teams in action are taking place in Baku, Azerbajin, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Chicago, Illinois, Santiago, Chile and Kauai, Hawaii.
Hyatt is also responsible for their Global Initiatives program which includes the linen reuse program, reducing their resource consumption, carbon emission and waste and their properties. Hyatt has developed a sustainable building design for the construction of their new hotels that are being built currently and for the renovation of their existing hotels around the world. Hyatt will be addressing the siting, design and construction of their buildings and incorporate technology and design
features to help them operate more efficiently by conserving resources and incorporating environmentally preferable materials.
Click this link to see some of the responsible purchasing that Hyatt is doing. Some examples include:
1. Packaging amenities like shampoo and lotion in bottles made of recycled plastic.
2. Switching to Zero-VOC paint.
3. Offering sustainability and responsibly sourced menu options.
Hyatt has produced a video called “Hyatt Earth in Action” which explains some of the projects they are working on, the progress they have made and their goals for the future.
This only on a small portion of what Hyatt as a hotel chain is doing to help the environment and the people in it. Some other programs to check out that Hyatt has established is their economic development and investment page where they discuss how they are constantly creating jobs for the community, and the disaster relief that they provide the communities surrounding the Hyatt hotels. Their education and personal advancement page where Hyatt discusses the money they are investing in children’s education to help better the community around them. And their last page, the health and wellness program. This page is devoted to explaining how important living a healthy lifestyle is not only for their employees, but also for Hyatt’s guests, associates and the community around them.
As you can see, Hyatt is leading the way in the hotel industry with their amazing work in sustainability. They are not only a successful hotel that guests love to stay at, but they are also helping the environment and trying to better the people in this world. Hyatt is a business that all hotels should strive to be like.
Enjoy!
-Taylor
CSR in the Hospitality Industry 
