Casual Hotels chosen as the "Chain with the best Corporate Social Responsibility"

June 7, 2024. Casual Hoteles is in luck, as it has just been chosen "Chain with the Best Corporate Social Responsibility" in the 14th Edition of the Roca Awards for Hotel Initiative, one of the best-known in the tourism sector in our country.

According to Juan Carlos Sanjuán, president of Casual Hoteles, who was responsible for collecting the award during a gala held yesterday in Barcelona, "these awards recognize the effort we are making to reduce the impact that our actions have on the environment, to guarantee the future of new generations through a change in society, and to ensure that our business offers an absolutely responsible and sustainable tourism activity."

In this sense, he recalled that, "since we created our own Sustainability department in 2023, we have intensified the development of initiatives that are helping us reduce our company's carbon footprint and drive a change in our society. Among them, it is worth highlighting the signing of an agreement with the marketer Conecta2 Energía, which provides our establishments with clean and 100% sustainable energy, sourced exclusively from renewable sources; the implementation of an ecological cleaning system with ionized water, and the recent participation in the regeneration of a forest that was deforested 500 years ago to build the ships of the Spanish Armada, among many others."

At the same time, he concluded, "we have been the first hotel chain to create a social movement with the aim of changing its environment, going beyond the purely economic objective. The Casual Movement, which we presented last March, seeks a shared transformation of society, through a positive change in which we have invited companies, people, and institutions to participate. For us, every personal change, no matter how small, contributes to the transformation of the world."

This is the second award obtained this year that rewards Casual Hoteles' Corporate Social Responsibility strategy, after the chain was recognized last January with the First HOSBEC Tourism Sustainability Award, in the "Best Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy" category.

About Casual Hoteles:

Casual Hoteles is a Valencian hotel company, founded in 2013 by Juan Carlos Sanjuán, with the goal of becoming the benchmark for themed urban accommodation in Spain. All their hotels have a personalized decor, inspired by the destinations in which they are located, and offer quality standards and central locations at affordable prices.

They are fun, surprising, and provocative, making Casual Hoteles a disruptive chain that, in 2018, was recognized with the Hostelco Award for "Best Hotel Concept"; and in 2023, it obtained the First HOSBEC Tourism Sustainability Award, in the "Best Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy" category.

In this regard, the group also stands out for its policy of firm social and environmental commitment through its own Code of Ethics, and for its collaborations with NGOs such as Save the Children and UNICEF, among others. Currently, Casual Hoteles has 24 hotels and 869 rooms in 13 cities in Spain, Portugal, and Italy, of which 1 is owned, 1 is under management, 15 are operated under a rental regime, and 7 are franchised.