STAY SMALL STAY CONSIDERATE
'Staying small' goes hand in hand with travelling sustainably. 'Small' has always been in our name, and thinking global, acting local has always been in our nature. Most of our hotels have no more than 50 rooms, they are all independently owned and many have been in the same family for generations. From a biodiversity-promoting rainforest lodge in Costa Rica to a culture-preserving Provençal château, they are often repurposed or renovated properties - reinvigorated and revived - rather than large scale new-builds. People are the heart of our hotels. They champion their local community, and cherish their culture and environments.
Watch SLH's video venture from the Himalayas to the Arctic Circle, capturing pioneering members of the collection.
Considerate Connections Retreat
To mark the evolution of the SLH Considerate Collection, we wanted to challenge ourselves and our hotels to consider how we can keep inspiring positive impact across the luxury hospitality industry.
On the fringes of the desert in southern Morocco, we gathered hoteliers from Brazil, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Jersey, Bhutan, Cyprus and Portugal to join us at the inaugural SLH Considerate Connections Retreat at Dar Ahlam’s House of Dreams for a deep dive into Regenerative Hospitality. Exploring what the concept is and why small, luxury hotels are so well placed to lead the way.
Co-hosted with industry experts, Regenopolis and Thierry Teyssier, founder of Dar Ahlam, where regenerative principles are applied in practice across every experience, we encouraged our hoteliers to learn, question themselves…question one another, share knowledge, be inspired and simply, connect.
Here’s what happened…
What does it take to be Considerate?
The three pillars
Hotels within the Considerate Collection have been handpicked for achieving the highest categories of our Sustainability Criteria and Pillars, that are aligned with the UN’s Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) as well as Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) framework. They are Sustainable Innovators that are Community Minded, Cultural Custodians and Environmentally Conscious. Each property has either achieved a GSTC recognised certification or passed an assessment by the SLH Sustainability Advisory Panel, with independent & impartial review by the GSTC. They’ve been visited, vetted, and verified against these criteria and many other SLH quality measures.
Considerate Collaborators
We’ve partnered with the most respectable sustainable organisations in travel and luxury hospitality to create a trusted framework and criteria for the Considerate Collection, so you can book with certainty:
- Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) - SLH is a member of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), the leading global authority in setting and managing standards for sustainable travel and tourism worldwide.
A Considerate Corporation
As a brand, our vision is to create a future where people travel the world with intention, experience its intensity and protect its integrity. Quality is in our DNA, and we know this goes hand in hand with sustainability. Not only have we taken active steps to guide our hotels in their sustainability journey, but we’ve also adopted many of the UN’s Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) within our own corporate offices. Learn more about our corporate commitments here.
