Sustainability by Raffles
Empowering a positive exploration of every destination
Our sustainable future at Raffles Hotels & Resorts
As the authentic heart of our global destinations, loved by generations, Raffles has been a devoted environmental and social leader for over a century, preserving cultural, natural and local heritage throughout our sphere of influence.
Now with the next 100 years in our sights, our supercharged vision is to redefine the meaning and experience of luxury through the lens of sustainability and sustainable practices. We believe this is a path we can walk side-by-side with our guests: where every touchpoint of your luxury experience is mindful, and real-time opportunities arise to co-create a positive impact during your stay.
Our sustainable future is the future of luxury. Inspiring, enchanting and, above all, positive, for all those whose lives and communities we touch.
Hosting Change, our sustainability roadmap for 2026-2030.
We are proud to support and contribute to Accor's sustainability efforts. Hosting Change carries one clear ambition: turning sustainability into shared value for every stakeholder. Our approach is structured around four strategic pillars, each mapped to a core dimension of our business and the stakeholders at its heart. Together, they define what it means to operate responsibly in hospitality today. Within each pillar, beyond the essentials, we push the boundaries with extra mile initiatives that pioneers bold moves to lead our industry forward.
Ensure Future-Proof Places
The places we operate are our foundation. We are decarbonizing our activity and reducing and optimizing resource consumption across our business, from development to daily operations.
Empowering All Talent
Delivering more responsible hospitality starts with empowering our people. We uphold fundamental human rights to ensure that all Heartists work in a safe, fair and dignified environment. We equip our people at every level with knowledge and tools to contribute to our sustainability transformation. And our social elevator programs create unique opporunities for training and employment.
Elevate the Guest Experience
Sustainability becomes even more meaningful when guests can feel it. From inclusive places to health concious food operation, Removing barriers for guests with disabilities and creating safe experiences for LGBTQI+ travelers; Answering the growing expectations of guests and online travel agencies with third-party eco-certifications; Transforming our culinary offer in line with rising demand for healthier, more sustainable choices.
Engage with Broader Ecosystems
Hosting Change extends beyond Accor. We mobalize those around us - suppliers, partners, local communities and destination stakeholders - to turn common values into collective action
Capturing the world’s imagination since 1887
Transcending hospitality, Raffles strives to create a world of beauty, wonder and inspiration for its guests, employees and communities – all those whose lives we touch. It is loved by generations past, present and future.
In 1887, at the dawn of the Golden Age of Travel, four entrepreneurial Persian-Armenian brothers, the Sarkies, opened a modest 10-room hotel in Singapore. They named it after the founder of modern Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles, a distinguished British diplomat and pioneering botanist. With such a resonant name, Raffles Hotel caught the imagination of a new generation of well-heeled globetrotters, beginning to discover for themselves the allure of the exotic East.
As the hotel grew to be the splendid Victorian-colonial landmark we know today, it attracted a glorious cavalcade of guests. Writers such as Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham and Noel Coward came for inspiration – and returned for more; while Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor and Jackie Kennedy found a rare place whose refinement mirrored their own elegance and glamour. With grace and generosity embodied by its impeccable butlers, the Raffles name became the stuff of legend, known to connoisseurs worldwide for its unique blend of British etiquette, tropical magnificence and Asian grace.
In time, the birthplace of stories and legends became also the birthplace of a family of elegant and culturally well-connected landmark addresses, all of them evoking the timeless old-world glamour, literary heritage and enchantment of the original. All share a unified aspiration to honour the Raffles name. Beyond hospitality, today Raffles strives to create a world of beauty, wonder and inspiration for its guests, employees and communities – wherever in the world it is found. It is loved by generations past, present and future.
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