Case Study: Evason Phuket & Six Spa Social And Environmental Conscience
Fares Samman
Professor Edward Joffe
HFT 1000
8th March 2016
Evason Phuket resort
Evason Phuket & Six Spa Social & Environmental Conscience is a company located on the southeast side of Phuket Island in Thailand which was established in 1995. They are a resort that are main objective is to be sustainability focused resort and spa management. They are dedicated to be an environmental friendly and a social responsible business which is executed throughout the company’s whole environmental management program. Every Resort in their company donates 0.5% of it’s revenue to the collection, which carry through a number of projects to encourage and back up the local communities’ and to raise awareness of essential environmental concerns. Their dedication and …show more content…
At Evason Resort their return on their investment for the technologies ranges from 1-8 years, depending on the specific technology system installed. For example: their investment for the energy monitoring system was $4,500, which enabled the resort to reach a 10% energy savings which is about $50,000. Evason being a environmentally friendly operating resort brought them other benefits, as the resort has shown a large increase in energy efficiency since the installments of environmental management system. Between 2002 (35% occupancy) to 2007 (75% occupancy) Evason witnessed a higher occupancy even though they operated as ecotourism. To add on, not only does Evason Resort benefit, their employees who could be people from nearby local communities get benefits as well. Evason gives preference to the hiring of local staff and does not let nationality, age, sex, ethnic religion or social background effect their chances in being employed at the resort. All men, women and children get paid equally and receive training so that they are aware and prepared for the tourism
Professor Edward Joffe
HFT 1000
8th March 2016
Evason Phuket resort
Evason Phuket & Six Spa Social & Environmental Conscience is a company located on the southeast side of Phuket Island in Thailand which was established in 1995. They are a resort that are main objective is to be sustainability focused resort and spa management. They are dedicated to be an environmental friendly and a social responsible business which is executed throughout the company’s whole environmental management program. Every Resort in their company donates 0.5% of it’s revenue to the collection, which carry through a number of projects to encourage and back up the local communities’ and to raise awareness of essential environmental concerns. Their dedication and …show more content…
At Evason Resort their return on their investment for the technologies ranges from 1-8 years, depending on the specific technology system installed. For example: their investment for the energy monitoring system was $4,500, which enabled the resort to reach a 10% energy savings which is about $50,000. Evason being a environmentally friendly operating resort brought them other benefits, as the resort has shown a large increase in energy efficiency since the installments of environmental management system. Between 2002 (35% occupancy) to 2007 (75% occupancy) Evason witnessed a higher occupancy even though they operated as ecotourism. To add on, not only does Evason Resort benefit, their employees who could be people from nearby local communities get benefits as well. Evason gives preference to the hiring of local staff and does not let nationality, age, sex, ethnic religion or social background effect their chances in being employed at the resort. All men, women and children get paid equally and receive training so that they are aware and prepared for the tourism