Two of Apex’s hotels in Bath and Dundee achieved Green Tourism accreditation in February and May 2022 respectively, with the remaining seven hotels in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London receiving their awards in February 2023.
Apex Hotels’ sustainability practices have been independently assessed and verified by Green Tourism, demonstrating the hotel group’s ongoing commitment to responsible, ethical, and sustainable business practices.
Green Tourism assessed Apex Hotels against 15 sustainability criteria grouped under the pillars of People, Places and Planet. These consider the social, economic and environmental actions the business has undertaken, providing a holistic assessment of sustainability performance.
Apex Hotels is committed to sustainable tourism practices, with an embedded sustainability, social and governance strategy that sits at the heart of the organisation. Some recent actions taken by the hotel group include switching to 100% renewable electricity from Scottish wind farms, a zero-landfill policy, removing single use plastics and sourcing all produce locally to reduce transport emissions.
The hotel group has also put in place a long-term social engagement and community outreach programme, which includes support for a range of national charities. These include cancer support charity Maggie’s Cancer, and Mind, who provide mental health advice and support. The group’s nine hotels in London, Bath, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee also independently and pro-actively support local charities and organisations throughout the year.
Lisa Wilson, Lead Assessor, Green Tourism said: “Apex Hotels have done a fantastic job in achieving the Green Tourism Silver Award for all nine hotels following their first assessment. The team displayed an excellent understanding of sustainability as well as an awareness of the opportunities and challenges associated with running a responsible business. This along with the dedication, hard work and creativity of the on-site teams at all the hotels has been an important factor in achieving the award.
Across the hotels, the teams performed particularly strongly in the assessment categories of Awareness, Community, Health & Wellbeing, and Experiences. Huge congratulations to all the teams. I am sure they will only continue to progress and improve their score as they continue their sustainability journey.”
Michael Stott, Commercial Director, Apex Hotels said: “The Green Tourism Awards are the industry leading accreditation for sustainability, environmental and good governance practices across the tourism sector. We are delighted and extremely proud to be one of few independent hotel groups to achieve Silver Green Tourism accreditation across all our hotels.
Green Tourism’s independent assessment brings reassurance to our guests and members of staff that our sustainable tourism practices are evidenced and authenticated. It also represents an important step in our ongoing journey to contribute to the happiness and prosperity of our local communities, introduce sustainable and environmentally friendly business practices and be an open and inclusive hotel group for all.”
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About Apex Hotels
Apex Hotels is a family-owned 4-star hotel group with nine hotels in some of the UK’s most popular city centre locations, including London, Bath, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee.
The hotel group was founded by Scottish entrepreneur Norman Springford who opened his first hotel in 1996, Apex Grassmarket Hotel in the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town. Since then, Apex Hotels has grown into one of the UK’s leading independent luxury hotel chains, attracting tourists and corporate guests from across the globe.
Apex Hotels’ most recent hotel, the magnificent 177-bedroom Apex City of Bath joined the group in 2017. It is the group’s first purpose-built hotel and the first of its portfolio to be opened outside of Scotland and London.
As well as offering consistently high standards for its business and leisure guests, Apex Hotels has a committed approach to environmental and sustainable tourism practices. It is one of few independent hotel groups to win a Silver Green Tourism award for all nine of its hotels.
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Apex Grassmarket, Edinburgh 31-35 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2HS
Apex City of Edinburgh, Edinburgh 61 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2JF
Apex Waterloo Place, Edinburgh 23-27 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3BG
Apex City of Glasgow, Glasgow 110 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 2EN
Apex City Quay Hotel & Spa, Dundee 1 West Victoria Dock Road, Dundee, DD1 3JP |
Apex City of London, London 1 Seething Lane, London EC3N 4AX
Apex London Wall, London 7-9 Copthall Avenue, London EC2R 7NJ
Apex Temple Court, London 1-2 Serjeants’ Inn, London EC4Y 1AG
Apex City of Bath, Bath James Street West, Bath BA1 2DA |
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FURTHER INFORMATION
For media enquiries please contact:
James Walter: 07483 422912 / james.walter@apexhotels.co.uk
