Sustainability

At Regnum Hotels, we have built our sustainable tourism strategies on creating a positive and lasting impact in every area where we operate. We are committed to significantly increasing our social impact and reducing our environmental impact by 2030, and we are taking concrete steps to achieve this.

This commitment includes progressing with measurable targets across areas such as reducing environmental impact, contributing to the local community, employee rights, and ethical business practices; considering stakeholder feedback; and continuously improving our performance.

Our sustainability vision not only aims to protect our environment and community, but also to share sustainability values and responsibilities while delivering unforgettable guest experiences. In this context, we manage sustainability as a shared value by establishing transparent communication and feedback channels for our guests, employees, suppliers, and local stakeholders.

We manage our sustainability performance through a target–indicator–action approach and monitor our annual targets through internal audits and management review processes.

WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY?

Sustainability means meeting today’s needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. At Regnum Hotels, we embrace this understanding by protecting nature and the environment, supporting the local community, and offering our guests an ethical and responsible hospitality experience

We are located in an area surrounded by natural beauty. For this reason, respecting nature is one of our highest priorities. We focus on environmental protection by optimizing our water and energy consumption, maximizing our waste management practices, and selecting environmentally friendly practices and materials. We also protect natural habitats within our property and support the local ecosystem.

Social Responsibility

We are mindful of our responsibility to society. Therefore, we contribute through social responsibility projects and local partnerships. By supporting initiatives in education, health, and the environment, we help create a better community. We also strive to support the local economy and create employment opportunities.

We monitor our local sourcing, local employment, and social investment targets through measurable indicators and share annual targets and results transparently in our Sustainability Report.

Green Innovation and Technology

To support our sustainability vision, we invest in green innovation and environmentally friendly technologies. We continuously work on reducing our carbon footprint, increasing energy efficiency, and developing waste reduction strategies. We also aim to spread this awareness by training our employees and business partners on sustainability.

We are taking major steps toward energy efficiency at our hotel. Through a trigeneration system, we simultaneously generate electricity, heating, and cooling. With a total thermal capacity of 11.136 MWt for the Regnum Hotels trigeneration–cogeneration system, our system efficiency has reached 60%.

We further strengthen our energy transition journey with solar investments: our total installed solar power plant (SPP / GES) capacity has reached 20.13 MWm, and we meet approximately 80% of our energy demand from renewable sources.

We do not only implement sustainability practices; we also measure, monitor, and continuously improve them using digital systems. By regularly tracking environmental performance indicators such as energy, water, waste, and carbon, we manage our operations in a data-driven manner and accelerate actions that improve resource efficiency.

Our approach is not limited to environmental data. Across the entire operation, we are digitalizing documentation, records, forms, approval workflows, and on-site inspections end-to-end. To collect fast and standardized data from the field, we use mobile-friendly online forms and approval workflows, ensuring seamless execution through task assignment, automated notifications, and integrations. With this digital infrastructure, we make nonconformity, risk, and corrective action management traceable through a single system and strengthen our culture of continuous improvement based on evidence.

Green Construction

At Regnum Hotels, “nature-friendly” is not just a slogan—it is a defined goal. Our innovative nature-friendly programs and initiatives are designed to protect our environment and minimize our impact on the irreplaceable natural resources of Belek–Antalya, Türkiye. As Europe’s first LEED Gold Certified golf hotel, our daily operating culture is shaped by responsible and sustainable philosophies. In addition, Regnum Hotels was designed with a forward-looking approach to nature-friendly buildings and TURCEKO, awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council.

In line with the LEED approach, we prioritize practices that reduce environmental impact in areas such as energy and water efficiency, material selection, indoor air quality, and waste management.

Sustainable Environment

In addition to LEED certified programs, Regnum Carya is actively implementing numerous high-priority sustainability projects. These include:

• Waste management
• Energy management
• Water management
• Air quality preservation management
• Noise control management
• Control and management of vegetable oil waste
• Chemical management
• Garden management
• Natural wildlife balance

We regularly monitor, measure, and update our practices under these headings in line with relevant legal obligations, international standards, and internal audit mechanisms—following a continuous improvement approach.

Biodiversity Conservation

Biodiversity conservation focuses on protecting wildlife and local ecosystems in a sustainable way. In Antalya–Belek, we operate within an ecosystem adjacent to habitats such as pine forests, bird migration routes, endemic plant species, and sea turtles (Caretta caretta). For this reason, the protection of wildlife and the preservation of ecosystem balance are among our priorities.

To support biodiversity at our hotel, we implement the following strategies:

• Protected Areas and Habitat Management: Natural flora and fauna are protected within hotel boundaries; “habitat-friendly” landscaping practices are preferred in area management.
  
• Plant Protection and Reduction of Invasive Species Risk: Local/native plant species are preferred in landscaping; the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers is minimized in green area management.
• Habitat Restoration and Protection of Natural Resources: We support ecosystem resilience through erosion control and habitat improvement practices; and contribute to aquatic life protection with projects such as the reuse of treated water
• Training and Awareness: We carry out environmental/biodiversity awareness activities for employees and guests, promoting mindful interaction with nature.

Programs and examples of best practices:

Caretta caretta conservation practices: Nesting areas are protected; measures are implemented to prevent light pollution along the coastline.

Species information and digital guidance: Along the golf course walking route, TR/EN information boards and QR-code digital guides introduce bird, reptile, mammal, and endemic plant species to create lasting awareness.

Our biodiversity conservation efforts offer our guests unique nature-based experiences while contributing to the continuity of the local ecosystem. In this process, we also take into account Türkiye’s legal framework and public monitoring/protection practices for wildlife and habitats.

To safeguard wildlife welfare, we adopt the principles of non-intervention, not feeding, and not disturbing wildlife.

We manage our light pollution and noise control practices—especially during sensitive periods (e.g., breeding/migration)—to support species’ life cycles.

Our Commitment to Stakeholders

We view sustainability as a shared responsibility across all stakeholders. We commit to offering our guests a safe, ethical, and environmentally conscious accommodation experience; providing our employees with an equitable, inclusive, and development-focused working environment; building sustainable collaborations with our suppliers based on environmental and social criteria; and engaging with the local community through respect, cooperation, and mutual benefit.

We support this commitment through transparent communication and continuous improvement. Through in-room information and digital channels, we provide guidance on water/energy saving, towel/linen change preferences, and waste separation. We regularly evaluate feedback from guests, employees, suppliers, and local stakeholders to improve our sustainability practices. We use open communication channels and tracking mechanisms to ensure that feedback, suggestions, and complaints are handled in a traceable manner and responded to in a timely way.

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Our progress in sustainability reflects the tangible outcomes of our hotel’s sustainability efforts. Our Sustainability Reports, which include success stories and statistics, help us better understand this progress.

In our reports, we transparently share our progress not only in energy, water, waste, and carbon performance, but also in social indicators such as community contribution, supply chain practices, employee development, and guest satisfaction. We monitor our progress toward the targets we set on an annual basis and strengthen credibility through independent verification and certification outputs.

• Sustainability Report 2021
• Sustainability Report 2022
• Sustainability Report 2023
• Sustainability Report 2024

LEED certification is a green building certification system that stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. It was developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and is recognized worldwide. It covers multi-disciplinary topics from the design phase through completion.

LEED-certified green buildings not only deliver energy and water savings, but also place strong emphasis on human health and comfort. At Regnum Hotels, our buildings have been planned with elements that directly affect human health—such as indoor air quality, daylighting, temperature and humidity control, and waste management. In addition, a cleaner environment has been achieved through recycled materials and methods used in construction.

Our buildings are designed to reduce CO₂ emissions by decreasing energy, material and water consumption, and waste generation.

Green buildings do not harm the environment or human health during their design, construction, and operation. Regnum Hotels has implemented many nature-friendly strategies to serve these goals, including:

• Sustainable Sites (SS)
• Water Efficiency (WE)
• Energy and Atmosphere (EA)
• Materials and Resources (MR)
• Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ)
• Innovation in Design (ID)

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• In-room information: You can find sustainability information in the Room Directory in your room.
• Mobile application: You can access important sustainability announcements and information in our hotel application.
  
• Our social media accounts and website: You can follow our sustainability initiatives through our channels and website and review our annually published Sustainability Report.
• Biodiversity boards and QR guide on our golf walking route: You can learn about local species through biodiversity panels and the QR guide along our golf walking route.
  

Thank you for following on-site guidance in designated areas to protect wildlife. We also welcome your suggestions and feedback on our sustainability practices, which contribute to our continuous improvement efforts.

Our Sustainability Projects

• ReGreen Social Responsibility and Environmental Movement

Founded by Regnum Hotels volunteers, ReGreen has been working devotedly since 2018 to create a better world through numerous environmental and social responsibility projects, under the slogan “Move-on Regnum / Take action today for the future!” ReGreen has delivered many social responsibility projects that raise awareness with a growing number of new volunteers and continues to develop new initiatives.

Projects are planned through a target–impact–participation approach; volunteering-based participation is encouraged; and outputs/learnings are continuously fed into improvement.

You can follow their work on Instagram: @REGREENREGNUM.

• Environmental Impact Assessment Project (Carbon and Water Footprint Measurement)

In the fight against global warming, it has become increasingly critical for organizations to measure and verify their greenhouse gas and water consumption impacts and to base their targets on concrete data. In this context, Regnum Hotels has completed carbon and water footprint measurement/verification studies in order to establish our carbon emission limits and reduction targets.

In collaboration with Akdeniz University, Department of Environmental Engineering, and Noventech Environmental Technologies, our greenhouse gas inventory was calculated in accordance with TS EN ISO 14064-1:2018 and verified by QSI.

On the water management side, our Water Footprint verification process was completed in 2024 and we obtained the ISO 14046 certificate. We are converting this verified baseline into concrete actions through our Net Zero Water 2030 roadmap: as of 2025, we aim to commission a reverse osmosis (RO) system and increase alternative water source usage; and in the 2027–2030 period, we aim to strengthen water efficiency and recovery practices, progressing toward targets of 50% water savings and 100% water recovery.

Building on our verification infrastructure, we now monitor and report our environmental performance regularly through digital systems: with our Environmental Performance Dashboard, our energy, water, waste, and carbon emissions are continuously reported in real time.

Our goal is to develop reduction projects based on verified data to decrease carbon emissions and accelerate our transformation journey toward carbon neutrality in line with our Net Zero Carbon 2030 vision.

• Surplus Food Project

Within the scope of the Food Waste Mapping study conducted in cooperation with Fazla Gıda, we strengthened our technology-based waste tracking approach from 2018 onwards and analyzed our processes through data-driven food waste mapping.

By measuring daily food waste amounts in restaurant and kitchen areas using smart weighing systems, we optimized menu planning, portion control, and production processes based on this data.

Using the collected data, we strengthened our waste-reduction approach in menu planning and transformed our kitchen operations into a data-driven sustainable kitchen management model.

In addition, in line with the food hierarchy approach, we explored revalorization options for products that cannot be used (e.g., animal feed, composting, and energy recovery alternatives) and carried out awareness activities for our employees and guests.

• Respect for History – Aspendos

We provide in-kind and material support to lecturers and students involved in the Aspendos excavation works. We carry out this support with the aim of contributing to the conservation of local cultural heritage, encouraging scientific studies, and developing a long-term sustainable partnership with the region.

• Caretta Caretta Project

Every year, we provide in-kind support to projects aimed at protecting endangered Caretta caretta sea turtles. In addition, to support the protection of sensitive areas during breeding seasons, we implement measures to reduce light pollution in coastal areas and inform our guests not to disturb wildlife.

Our hotel is engaged in a wide range of sustainability efforts such as energy efficiency, waste management, water conservation, and biodiversity protection. We also focus on contributing to local communities and wildlife, and on investing in green innovation and technology.

• We generate electricity, heating, and cooling simultaneously through a trigeneration system and achieve 60% system efficiency.
• We continuously make new investments to reduce our environmental impacts. We replaced all fuel-powered equipment used on-site and more than 90% of our vehicles with electric alternatives.
• We replaced all buggy batteries with lithium batteries.
• We use a 100% fully automated system for the hotel’s garden irrigation.
• We reduce fertilizer use by employing robotic lawn mowers.
• We prioritize eco-friendly suppliers and products with lower environmental impact in procurement.
• We focus on reducing single-use plastics and prefer reusable/recyclable alternatives.
• We manage our food waste prevention efforts based on measurement and monitor kitchen processes with a smart weighing system.