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IHG Hotels & Resorts supports you with impactful options
InterContinental Maldives Maamunagau Resort

Enjoy a more sustainable stay

IHG Hotels & Resorts supports you with impactful options

True Hospitality For Good

With destinations across the globe, we're passionate about making a difference in the world around us, and in the thousands of communities we call home. Your choice to stay with us empowers our hotels to bring to life their shared vision for making a positive impact. The next time you plan a trip, know the many options that support you with a more sustainable travel experience.

LOW CARBON PIONEERS

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Low Carbon Hotels

Our Low Carbon Hotels are energy efficient, have no fossil fuels combusted onsite*, are backed by renewable energy, and have a globally recognized sustainability certification.** Explore Low Carbon Hotels.

*with the exception of backup generators
**Newly opened hotels obtain certification within 12 months
Hotel shower

Low Carbon Ready Hotels

In our markets where hotels cannot be fully backed by renewable energy, we have Low Carbon Ready hotels. They demonstrate energy efficiency over global standards, have no fossil fuels combusted onsite*, optimize renewable energy, and have a globally recognized sustainability certification.**

*with the exception of backup generators
**Newly opened hotels obtain certification within 12 months
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Inside a Low Carbon Hotel

All electric hotel kitchen
All electric kitchen with induction hobs

Removing any fossil fuel requirements for catering and enabling a more efficient kitchen.

High hotel efficiency showers
High efficiency showers and taps and hot water heat pumps

Reducing the energy required to heat hot water and reducing energy and water usage.

High-efficiency heating and cooling for hotels
High-efficiency heating and cooling

Keeping guests at a comfortable temperature whilst reducing energy use through heat pump systems.

Hotel pool with solar thermal or heat pump pool heating
Solar thermal or heat pump pool heating

Reducing the energy required to keep pools at a comfortable temperature.

Solar PV panels in hotels
Solar PV panels where possible

Generating renewable energy which can be used across the hotel.

Well-insulated hotel building with heat recovery
Well-insulated building with heat recovery

Limiting heat loss and reducing wasted energy by recycling heating and cooling energy across the hotel.

Explore our Low Carbon Pioneers

Holiday Inn Express Asuncion Aviadores

Holiday Inn Express Madrid - Airport

Kimpton BEM Budapest

Iberostar Cristina

Join us on the Journey to Tomorrow

IHG's approach is guided by our Journey to Tomorrow, a responsible business plan that sets out our commitment to help shape the future of responsible travel together with those who stay, work and partner with us. Aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it’s a powerful framework for how we can focus our efforts to deliver our purpose of True Hospitality for Good.
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