sustainable travel

Healing the world through travel

Ownia Collection’s main goal is to make sustainable travel the norm and not the exception, that is why we take best practices so seriously.

In order to be a member hotel of Ownia Collection we have created a set of sustainability standards that each hotel must follow to be part of our collection. Having in mind the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) standards, we have created 12 pillars that rule our standards in order to become a more sustainable and effective community.

As proud members of the GSTC we are actively promoting sustainability as a common goal for travel and tourism.

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SUSTAINABLE & REGENERATIVE TRAVEL

The World Tourism Organization defines sustainable travel as the “management of all resources in such a way that economic, social, and aesthetic needs can be fulfilled while maintaining cultural integrity, essential ecological processes, biological diversity, and life support systems.”

Now let’s talk about regenerative travel! This concept refers to the act of leaving a place better than it was before you arrived. For a journey to be truly regenerative, it must contribute to the well-being of the land, animals and humans of that place. The regenerative travel experience isn’t just about lowering your carbon footprint or buying local, it is about actively improving the social or environmental conditions of the place you’re visiting.

WHY IS IT URGENT TO CHANGE THE WAY WE TRAVEL

Some shocking facts about tourism’s impact on the environment:
Every year the hotel industry produces around 1700 tons of waste this is the same as 16 Cloud Gate Sculptures of waste
The tourism industry is responsible for 8% of the world's carbon emissions.
455 million liters of water get wasted = 182 Olympic size swimming pools
Annually the tourism industry produces 18 billion tons of single-use plastic waste it's equivalent to 1854 Eiffel Towers of plastic waste
The hotel industry must reduce its carbon emissions by 66% by 2030 and be a net zero industry by 2050 to positively impact climate change and reduce global warming.

Now that you have some of the facts, for this and many reasons more, it is so important to support sustainable travel. It is in our hands to heal our planet, take care of it, and give something back to it since Earth gives us so much!

We know we all love to explore each and every single corner of the world. And when we travel we expect the destination to be clean, perfect, beautiful, healthy, and pristine. In order for you to keep enjoying these magical experiences, we need to change the way we travel. We need to support sustainable hotels that have so many efforts to support the local environment, community, and economy.

It's all about balance and consciousness, and together, we can heal the world through travel!

Ownia'S SUSTAINABILITY Stamp

Booking with us is completely guaranteed you’re booking your vacations at a genuinely sustainable hotel. With Ownia’s Stamp, it’s easier to identify at which step of their sustainable journey each hotel is.

Close To Net Zero

Environmentally conscious, with sustainable initiatives helping the environment, only one step away from becoming carbon neutral.

Net Zero

Achieving carbon neutrality, a balance of carbon dioxide emissions with its removal or by eliminating emissions from society.

climate Positive

A Hotel goes beyond achieving net zero carbon emissions to actually create an environmental benefit by removing additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Ownia Collection’s 12 IMPACT PILLARS

At Ownia we base our sustainability criteria on 12 different pillars. Every hotel or resort in our collection is committed to each of these pillars focusing not only on not damaging the environment but on regenerating it.

Equality Regeneration Community Energy Education Heritage Design Justice & Legislation Wellness Food Water Waste

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