Responsible Tourism Commitment

Responsible Tourism Feedback September 2012

The Vineyard Hotel

We acknowledge as a 207 room hotel, the Vineyard Hotel &

Spa has a significant environmental impact via its

consumption of energy, water and the creation of waste.

We operate & market our hotel in a manner that upholds the

guiding principles for Responsible Tourism, i.e. we Minimize

any negative economic, environmental and social impact we

may have.

In doing so the staff and management of Vineyard Hotel &

Spa strive to continuously improve our performance in the

context of sustainable development and management of

tourism.

“you cannot ask hungry people to save the environment, recycle waste and eliminate their carbon footprint. we have to take care of the social side

first.” Lex petousis – group operations director – the vineyard group

• We have made a commitment via Our Kids of the Cape Fund and

other CSI contributions to uplift the life of children in the community, Baphumelele children's home ,Woodside special care Centre, St Michael's home for girls.

• Planting trees at schools • Alien clearing project SANP Silvermine Amy Biehl Foundation • Voluntourism: introducing the guest to the community • Cork It collection for donation of cork flooring , Woodside Centre • Up cycling: Shopping bags from Puro coffee bags • Paradise Park community project • Waste recycling facilities made available to the local community

What we do concerning RT

Alien Clearing & Tree Planting

Puro Fair-trade bags

Uncorked Initiative

• To achieve the responsible tourism sustainability objectives we have produced a water, energy & waste minimization programme which will be used to assist us in achieving our targets.

• Monitor:If you can’t measure it you can’t save it.

• Targets

We have set ourselves the following targets to achieve for 2012 .

Reduce water consumption by 6% .

Reduce our energy consumption by 5%.

Waste percentage recycled to 94%

Progress & Monitoring

Water: consumption was up?, solution: efficient showerheads, laundry, borehole Energy: consumption down?, new initiatives: LED lights 6%,laundry 6%, solar, showerheads 8 % Waste: recycling up, separation at source, up cycling of Puro coffee bags, Collection of Corks & attention to detail

RT Sustainability Monitoring 2012 Triple bottom line 7 indicators Indicators Baseline Data Target 2012 Quarterly Report 2012 Total Average to date

Jan- Mar Apr- Jun Jul- Sept Oct- Dec

Environment Water L per bednight 530 475 444 520 492.25

Energy kWh per bednight 34 30.5 32.5 23.6 30.15

Waste Kg per bednight 0.4 0.4 0.35 0.23 0.345

volume generated

volume recycled Kg per bednight 0.35 0.33 0.30 0.28 0.315

86% 93% 89% 93%

Responsible Tourism

Thank You!

If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of co-operation . To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common

good - George Meyer