Sustainability

INCREASING THE VALUE

CORNARO'S GREEN BUSINESS

Effective sustainability planning, maximizing social and economic benefits for the local community, enhancing cultural heritage, and reducing negative impacts to the environment have always been our utmost concern. Cornaro Sustainable Program is our way of showing our guests how we’re constantly working on making our hotel environmentally-friendly and how much we care about people and the planet.

Cornaro Hotel***** Split complies with EU environmental laws and requirements, and seeks to go a step beyond. With our business record, water and energy consumption data, which improve continuously our facilities and our policy making them more economical. 

The purpose of our Sustainability Management Plan is to manage both long-term decision making and day-to-day business operations in a sustainable manner, with environmental, socio-cultural, health and safety issues and standards in mind.

Cornaro Hotel ***** Split is committed to communicating this plan to our partners and our guests.

CLEAN AND SAFE STAY

Daily houskeeping is available on request; guest may choose if they don’t want their rooms cleaned which means less water and energy usage.

All our rooms are smart rooms and Cornaro App is available for all services during your entire stay.

HUMAN AND HEALTH WELLBEING

We created safe and healthy workplace for our employees with health and safety protocols for employees, upgraded cleaning and sanitizing protocols, social distancing rules and personal safety equipment and protocols followed with trainings and education of our employees. That is how we have emphasized our priority in human health and wellbeing of both our guests and our employees.

RECYCLING & SOLAR PANELS

We’ve bid farewell to plastic straws, plastic cutlery, plastic cups and plastic toothbrushes. 

We manage plastic, paper and battery waste in an organized manner, which leads to energy conservation and recycling

Our goal for 2021 is to have a recycling rate of 90% of all waste. We know it’s not going to be easy, but we will do our best to achieve this goal and you can follow all updates on our socials.

Solar cells are installed on our rooftop, wherever possible, to ensure greener energy consumption.

GASTRONOMY AND LOCAL TRADITION

In our gastronomy we turn to local community and incorporate local food with traditional meals. Our suppliers are domestic producers who use fresh, local and seasonal food which means more quality for our guests and less waste.

All of our meals and snacks on offer follow the calendar to ensure maximum freshness of finest domestic ingredients. We offer at least one vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free menu option. All our food is thoughtfully served with minimised human handling.

MEETINGS AND EVENTS

Once you’ve chosen Cornaro, you’ve elected to stay in a sustainable hotel which continually strives to make both the establishment and the planet greener. We pride ourselves with:
  • Natural ingredients and materials on offer throughout our property, plant and equipment
  • Minimum usage of disposables
  • Seasonal and organic meals and snacks
  • Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options
  • Flavored filter water, organic coffee and tea on offer
  • Coffee-break options
  • Reducing food waste by pre-planning meals with group leaders or delegates
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  • Green Meetings Program

    • GREEN TRANFERS & E-CHARGING STATION

    Our acclaimed green transport service is focused on your satisfaction throughout your stay.
    Cornaro Hotel provides a charging station for electric vehicles, available around the clock every day.

    CORNARO HOTEL Sustainability Policy

    We offer and guarantee:

    • A safe and healthful workplace
    • Environmentally responsible neighbor in community
    • Conserving natural resources by reusing and recycling
    • Using operational processes that protect the environment
    • Responsible use of energy
    • Participating in efforts to improve environmental protection and understanding
    • Taking steps to continually improve environmental performance 
    • Suppliers who promote sound environmental practices
    • Enhancing awareness among employees
    • Promote sustainability principles to third parties

    We particularly focus on:

  • Equality
  • Non-discrimination
  • No child labor
  • Zero tolerance on any type of abuse directed towards any living being
  • No harsh or degrading treatment/harassment
  • No forced/bonded/compulsory labor
  • Freedom of association/collective bargaining
  • Health and safety
  • Working conditions – including working hours
  • Fair wages/compensation
  • Accessibility for persons with disabilities
  • Maternity protection
  • Right to strike
  • Law compliance

    • We are proud to say we:

  • Perform acceptable sustainability standards
  • Are locally owned and managed
  • Minimize our environmental impact
  • Support local community
  • Protect and do not endanger the resources of the local community
  • Support local tradition, culture and lifestyle
  • Promote the quality of the destination and its authenticity
  • Responsibly use local resources
  • Support purchase of local products, food and souvenirs
  • Contribute to local citizens and community wellbeing
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    We recognize and respect the importance of indigenous peoples' culture,
    heritage and traditional rights and we support the identification, recording,
    management and protection of indigenous cultural heritage sites.

    CORNARO SUSTAINABLE GREEN MEETINGS PROGRAM

    Sustainable meeting commitment with clean & safe stay
    Stay Cornaro, stay safe!

    SUSTAINABLE GREEN MEETINGS BROCHURE