I first came across the Kimpton Hotels experience while reading the fantastic marketing and branding book Mind Your X's & Y's. Kimpton is all about creating an environment that is much different than your typical Hilton or Marriott. Each boutique hotel is pet-friendly and they offer unique events such as hosted evening wine tastings. Each hotel reflects the distinct cultural "flavors" of the city you're staying in and for regular Kimpton patrons, they remember all of your personal travel preferences.
Well, I met up with my sister this week who is in Chi-town on business from the ATL and she happened to be staying at a Kimpton Hotel! Very cool indeed. However, while I was in her room I saw a table tent card talking about the Kimpton EarthCare program. The info I read stated that all Kimpton Hotels are eco-friendly. As I read the details, I got the impression that this hotel brand is a good fit for those living the PrairieMod Lifestyle.
From the Kimpton EarthCare website...
OUR MISSION
Lead the hospitality industry in supporting a sustainable world, by continuing to deliver a premium
guest experience through non-intrusive, high quality, eco-friendly products and services.
OUR EARTHCARE COMMITMENT
Kimpton Hotels has made a life-long commitment to environmental responsibility. Being environmentally
responsible is not a one day job. It is a commitment and one that Kimpton is dedicated to for life.
Every three months, new products and practices are introduced to Kimpton EarthCare, furthering our
vision to reduce our impact on the environment. Of course, all the while we protect the high quality hotel
experience our guests expect.
Whether you are an activist or active, hippie or hip, or simply hope to do good in the world while doing something good for yourself - we invite you to enjoy a Kimpton Boutique Hotel. You'll sleep easy if you do.
EARTHCARE PRODUCTS AND PRACTICES
As part of Kimpton EarthCare, every hotel adopts standard environmentally friendly
products and practices with high-impact and benefit to our planet.
Here's just a few of Kimpton EarthCare's efforts:
- Cleaning Supplies: All rooms cleaned with environmentally friendly cleaning products
- Soy Inks: All corporate collateral is printed on recycled paper using soy based ink
- Recycled Paper: Property wide printing on recycled paper
- Organic Beverages: All complimentary lobby coffee is organic, shade grown and/or fair trade
- Towel/Linen Reuse: Guests have the opportunity to do their part to reduce energy and detergents required for daily washings
- Recycling: Back of house recycling programs addressing glass, bottles, paper, cardboard, etc.
- Energy Conservation: Back of house lighting retrofitted and audited to ensure energy efficient bulbs are in place
- Water Conservation: Implementation and auditing of low flow systems for faucets, toilets, and showers
- Best Practices: At any hotel you may find environmental activities such as recycling of coat hangers, elimination of Styrofoam cups, paperless check-ins/outs, organic flowers, and more...
- In-room designer recycling bins: Guests are encouraged to participate in reducing our environmental impact
- Honor bar with organic food and beverage options: Honor bars include organic snacks and beverages
- Donation programs: Instead of being thrown away, unused amenity bottles are donated and used by local charities
- Shop for eco-friendly products like organic bedding and recycled glassware
Image and text copyright Kimpton
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