Scenic Hotel Group’s Strategy for a Sustainable Future

For over forty years, New Zealand-owned and operated Scenic Hotel Group has led the way in caring for visitors from around the country and the world. Part of this uniquely New Zealand hospitality experience is connecting guests with people, experiences and places – particularly in many of New Zealand’s most treasured environments and communities where tourism along with primary industries are the key drivers to their economies.

It’s all talk until you measure

Scenic Hotel Group has partnered with Toitū Envirocare to certify and measure our emissions and reductions so we can be confident in our work and actions. We are serious about positive change, and this will be proof our actions speak louder than words.

We have achieved our 2023 Toitū  Certified Carbon Reduce Certification for our New Zealand properties.

• Reduced Carbon Dioxide emissions per room sold by 32% compared to our 2022 baseline year with an average 6.8kg CO2e per room sold.
• Diverted up to 23.4% of waste from landfill
• The total emissions for 2023 were 2,164.43 tCO2e, which is 3% lower than our 2022 baseline year total of 2,233.23 tCO2e

Toitū Carbonreduce Certification

Scenic Hotel Group, a respected leader in New Zealand’s hospitality industry for over four decades, is excited to share its recent Toitū carbonreduce certification (ISO 14064-1). 

Our Environmental Journey

Scenic Hotel Group cares about our people and our community, and strives to always leave a positive impact on both. We are committed to being a leader in responsible and sustainable tourism. We continually review and adapt our internal and external practices to ensure we’re taking advantage of all appropriate initiatives to influence our impact on the world and communities around us.

With the cooperation of our guests, staff, business partners and the wider community, we strive for a better tomorrow. The Scenic Hotel Group Sustainability Team ensures the implementation of any new environmental initiatives, administers the group’s environmental plan, plus reviews and ensures all introduced procedures are being adhered to.

Our Sustainability Commitment & Vision

At the end of 2021, Scenic made a strategic decision to shift our direction and deliver on each of the pillars of sustainability for our staff, our customers and our community. We partnered with Third Era Sustainability to help us reshape our organisation so that we were not only the best in the world but also the best for the world.

We are committed to delivering the highest level of social, economic, cultural and environmental sustainability for our staff, guests and the communities in which we operate. For us, being sustainable is not mutually exclusive to providing an exceptional guest experience. Our sustainability journey has shown us that by being better stewards of the environment and for people, tourism is going to thrive.

Our Sustainability Priorities

At Scenic, sustainability includes environmental, social, economic and cultural sustainability. Our promise is to work towards a healthy and prosperous NZ and Pacific across each of these pillars.

To help identify our sustainability priorities we committed to Agenda 2030 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs). We talked to our staff and stakeholders about what sustainability issues were most important to them and where they believed Scenic could have the most positive impact.