August 16, 2019

RED PLANET TO BECOME FIRST BUDGET HOTEL CHAIN FREE OF SINGLE-USE PLASTIC

BANGKOK – As part of its environmental sustainability goals, Red Planet Hotels announced today that all its hotels will phase out single-use plastics. The first-of-its-kind initiative in the budget hotel segment tops the company’s ongoing green programmes across all its properties, including waste management, energy conservation, and responsible procurement.

Red Planet Hotels is committed to becoming 100 per cent single-use plastic-free in all hotel operations as its contribution to arresting the disposal of eight million tonnes of plastic ending up in oceans every year. This year, the company removed all plastic straws, cutlery, cups, and lids from its coffee bars. Red Planet hotels uses only refillable bathroom amenities, and it has recently eliminated all in-room single-use plastics across its South East Asian hotels. The company has further expanded its supplier partnerships with Rethink Plastic in Indonesia and EcoKoala in Thailand to offer additional eco-friendly alternatives to in-room amenities.

Today, the brand’s hotels in Thailand and Japan have switched from selling plastic bottles to recycled glass bottles, thereby reducing the burden on landfills and ultimately saving coastlines and beaches from continually accumulating everlasting garbage. Red Planet Hotels will extend the initiative to all its properties in the Philippines and Indonesia, making the move from plastic water bottles to either plastic-free alternatives or easily accessible water dispensers — a programme the company implements to offset the one million plastic bottles sold every minute.

“Travellers across Asia are rapidly becoming environmentally sensitive and rising numbers of hotel customers are looking for more eco-friendly alternatives,” said Tim Hansing, Red Planet Hotels’ CEO. “The transition to plastic-free tourism requires commitment and collaboration. We hope that the importance and outcome of our initiative to embrace sustainable tourism will encourage the hotel industry to sharply reduce the proliferation of single-use plastics.”

Red Planet Hotels will continue to expand its plan of action to reduce the company’s environmental footprint, whilst continuing to address the damaging effects caused by plastic use in the hotel industry. Through avoiding single-use plastics altogether, and working with suppliers to ensure adequate recycling processes are in place, Red Planet Hotels seeks to ensure that it generates less waste and refuse such that zero plastic ends up in oceans or landfills.

For more information or high-resolution photography, please contact:

Aline Massart
Vice President Marketing
Red Planet Hotels
Tel: +66 2 613 5818
Mobile: +66 80 453 2570
E-mail: aline@redplanethotels.com

About Red Planet Japan, Inc.

Red Planet Japan, Inc. is the JASDAQ-listed Japanese operation of Red Planet Hotels Limited. The company commenced operations in Japan in August 2013 with the opening of Red Planet Okinawa Naha, followed by the opening of Red Planet Tokyo Asakusa in 2015. Red Planet Nagoya Nishiki subsequently opened in October 2017. In June 2018, Red Planet opened Red Planet Sapporo Susukino South, its first property in Sapporo. Red Planet Sapporo Susukino Central and Red Planet Hiroshima are currently under development and are expected to open by 2019 and 2020, respectively. The company’s newly established joint venture intends to acquire another 5 development sites by mid-2019. Red Planet Japan has also acquired its parent company’s Thailand-based operations and development sites in Bangkok, Thailand and Manila, Philippines, with three hotels sequenced to open by 2020. The Company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol 3350.

About Red Planet Hotels

Red Planet Hotels, founded in 2010, is a privately-owned regional hotel group focused on Asia’s expanding budget hotel sector. The company owns and operates 30 hotels in Indonesia (7), Japan (5), the Philippines (13), and Thailand (5) for a total of 4,779 rooms. 14 additional hotels, comprising 2,669 rooms, will open across Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines in 2019 and 2020. These hotels will open using Red Planet’s robust and scalable technology platform, providing both advanced reservation software, ensuring a fast and efficient booking process, and local attraction guides for customers. Red Planet comprises a stylish budget hotel offering, with all its properties centrally located and equipped with high-speed Wi-Fi. Red Planet’s companies based in Jakarta (Red Planet Indonesia - PSKT:IJ) and Tokyo (Red Planet Japan - 3350:JP) are listed on the Indonesian and Japanese stock exchanges, respectively. For more information, please visit: www.redplanethotels.com