Mercure Bucharest City Center - Positive Hospitality

Positive Tourism with Planet 21

Mercure Bucharest City Center participates in Accor’s Planet 21 Programme and acts in favor of Positive Hospitality. The hotel has been ranked as Planet 21 Gold. Planet 21 summarizes Accor’s ambitions around four key goals: work with its employees, involve its customers, innovate with its partners and work with local communities. Two of the key issues tackled are food waste and buildings’ efficiency.

10M trees planted by Accor x ALL by the end of 2021

Accor’s solid commitment to a healthy business is rooted in our day to day operations. We spend half of the savings resulted from our guests’ decision to reuse towels as subsidies for eco-farmers. Our CSR partners help them restore and develop organic orchards, so that old varieties of fruits don’t disappear.

To date, there are 7M trees planted worldwide through Plant for the Planet. Out of the total, 2.5 M trees are in Transylvania, Romania as of 2020. By the end of 2021, Accor x ALL aims to plant 10M trees.

Removal of all single-use plastics

Accor acts as a responsible tourism provider at a local and global level. The group has committed to the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative led by the United Nations, with the primary goal to remove all single-use plastics in its hotels by 2022.

As of 2019, the group cut most of its use of straws, cotton buds and stirrers. In 2020, all personal toiletry bottles will be replaced with dispensers. Plastic cups will disappear too. By 2022, all single-use plastics will be removed, such as toiletry sets, bottles, cleaning bags and access cards.