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About IGBC Green Resorts

A Green Resort aims to reduce its environmental impact through conserving resources and generating less waste compared to conventional resorts. The Indian Green Building Council's Green Resorts initiative provides a framework to help resorts implement green features and certifications. Certified green resorts educate guests on sustainability through signage, nature walks, and talks to promote environmental stewardship and a green lifestyle.

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About IGBC Green Resorts

A Green Resort aims to reduce its environmental impact through conserving resources and generating less waste compared to conventional resorts. The Indian Green Building Council's Green Resorts initiative provides a framework to help resorts implement green features and certifications. Certified green resorts educate guests on sustainability through signage, nature walks, and talks to promote environmental stewardship and a green lifestyle.

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GREEN RESORTS

A Green Resort is one which uses less water, reduces energy consumption, conserves natural
resources, generates less waste and provides healthier spaces for guests’ & staff as compared to
a conventional resort.

A green resort follows a holistic approach where guests’ experience and wellbeing is given
importance. Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), with the support of all the stakeholders from
hospitality industry has launched an initiative “Green Resorts”. The main objective is to facilitate
resorts in implementation of green features and gain the maximum benefits. Approach for
greening a resort is:

A fundamental trait of the Indian hospitality


GUESTS’ PERSPECTIVE sector is its ability to link the economic, social,
Enhance Guests’ experience and reduce environment cultural and environmental aspects of
impact due to their stay in the resort sustainability and to act as a driving force for
their mutual enhancement. The IGBC Green
OWNER'S PERSPECTIVE Resorts rating system follows the triple
Reduce operation and maintenance cost and bottom line approach by popularising the
minimise the related environment impacts concept of “People, Planet and Profit”. A
holistic approach has been followed where
SOCIETAL PERSPECTIVE guests’ experience and wellbeing is given due
Promote the local economy and culture and help importance along with promoting the local
community development in the region economy & culture and preservation of
natural heritage

BENEFITS OF GREEN RESORT

Energy savings up to 30–40%, Reduction in Operation


with reference to Energy and Maintenance cost
Conservation Building Code

Water savings up to 20–30%, Enhancing the brand


with reference to Uniform image of the resort
Plumbing Code
Promotion of green lifestyle
Attracting more environmentally among guests through
conscious national and awareness and green
international guests. activities
Best Practices from IGBC Certified Resorts
Guest Education
Educating the guests on the green features implemented in the resort and creating
awareness on the green lifestyle parameters through nature walks, signages and evening
talks/ videos.

1. Pragati resorts, Hyderabad has implemented many of the green features and
is a platinum certified IGBC Green Resort. The signage installed by the resort is
educating the guests and creating awareness about the importance of
environment. For eg., the signage on importance of trees is through monetizing
the value of a lost tree. One 50-year-old fallen tree costs about Rs 400 Lakhs:
• Rs 4 lakhs worth of Oxygen
• Rs 2 Lakhs worth of animal flesh and bones
• Rs 6.5 Lakhs of soil fertility and soil erosion control
• Rs 100 Lakhs worth recycling of water and controlling temperature & humidity
• Rs 281 Lakhs worth of removal of SPM, CO and SO from air

2. The IBNII, Coorg is a platinum certified Green Resort. The project has a
introduced concept of Nature Walk. The guests’ are free to join a local guide for
walking around the entire property of resort and studying the local flora & fauna.
The resort has a Rudhraksha tree in the project periphery and many such
features are highlighted by the local guide.

3. Kensville Golf and Country Club, Ahmedabad is


India’s First Platinum rated IGBC Green Resort. The
resort has implemented a unique approach in guest
education by releasing a book on the flora &
fauna of the resort. The interesting element
introduced is all the pictures captured in the
book is taken by the guests inclined towards
photography.

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