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SLH Corporate Commitments

Small Luxury Hotels of the World debuts Call-to-Action Report inspiring action from boutique hotels and beyond

Marking the 35th anniversary of the brand in 2025, SLH’s version of a Call-to-Action Report looks at the past, present and future of small luxury hotels and sustainability. The report shares the inside track of the SLH journey to date, valuable insights learned along the way from its standout Considerate Collection properties, impactful partnerships, and outlines commitments to come. 

The report is a continuation of an ethos that has always kept sustainable principles front of mind, with SLH championing small, independent and family-owned hotels since its inception. 

Spotlighting worldwide examples from the growing Considerate Collection, the report emphasises the power of amplifying solution-led success stories, with the hope that transparent knowledge sharing will continue to mobilise action and spark more creative solutions, not just in the SLH community, but also serve to inspire positive impact across the luxury hospitality industry.

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Our Sustainability Values

We are...

SLH Independent Spirits

Independent Spirits

We champion independently owned, family-run hotels who share our vision in how we travel and experience the world.

SLH Sustainable Values

People Powered

People are at the centre of our properties, and we passionately convey their heart and soul in everything we do.

SLH Community Minded

Community-Centric

We aim to cultivate a community spirit and help communities benefit from the hotels that we send guests to.

SLH Storytellers

Storytellers

We don’t just sell, we tell. By celebrating the small things, we hope to take a big step towards positive change.

SLH Brand Values

Thinkers & Questioners

We constantly look to the horizon and encourage long-term goals, helping hotels inspire each other to do better.

SLH Educators

Educators

We help hotels walk all this sustainability talk by providing bespoke toolkits developed by eco-experts.

Our Sustainability Commitments

A considerate corporation

We’ve implemented policies in our global corporate offices to do our part to contribute to the UN’s Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs). Below is a snapshot of some of the commitments we are undertaking within our corporate strategy:

  • We are a proud member of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) and we share and uphold the GSTC Criteria, which is the global standard for sustainable travel and tourism.
  • We are supporting our community of hotels to improve their sustainability efforts with comprehensive online resources and webinars aligned with GSTC criteria.
  • We are supporting local environmental and community-based projects through 50 volunteer days per year and charitable donations.
  • We champion diversity, inclusion and equality at every level and undertake due diligence relating to hotel members, partners, and direct and indirect supply chains.
  • We reflect our diverse locations, membership and global clientele through representative marketing, communications and partnership programmes that provide an equal voice to everyone.
  • We’re declaring a climate emergency in support of Tourism Declares which involves the following:
    • We publicly accept the current IPCC advice stating the need to cut global emissions to 55% below 2017 levels by 2030 to keep the planet within 1.5 degrees of global warming.
    • We are developing a Climate Action Plan, which sets out our intentions to reduce carbon footprint by 2030.
    • We commit to publicly communicating our plan and progress here on our website.
    • We are encouraging our community to make the same declaration and we are sharing best practice by providing resources.
    • We advocate for change and recognise the need for a system change across the industry to accelerate a just transition towards carbon-free tourism
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