Corporate Social Responsibility
From sustainability to focus on our team
Attention to our team
Our guests visibly enjoy every day with us, they have our attention because a relaxing day for our guests is top priority for us. Behind the scenes, our attention goes much further than that.
Our team delivers top performance, they make our company a success. Their well-being is incredibly important to us. That's why we give them the opportunity to take training courses, attend fun team outings and work on a healthy lifestyle with various workshops. They can also take advantage of free Spa & Wellness entrance and discounts on treatments, products and in our restaurants.
Sustainability
Fort Resort Beemster is one of the most luxurious and sustainable resorts in the Netherlands. Eco-chic is what we call it. So with us you can really unwind with a good feeling. These are our sustainable initiatives:
- Rainwater is collected, filtered and used for toilet flushing.
- Residual heat from the saunas is used to heat the fort and baths.
- We have solar panels on the roof that we use to generate some of our own power.
- We no longer use plastic in wellness. Scrubs, for example, are handed out in the bowl of your hand.
- We encourage our guests to bring their own water bottle. This can be refilled at the water tap. If they do not bring their own water bottle, there is the option of purchasing a reusable Fort Resort Beemster drinking bottle.
- Guests do not receive plastic bags from us for their belongings in the wellness, but sustainable reusable bags.
- The kitchen uses ingredients from the season and as much as possible from the region.
- We do waste separation and have our own cardboard press.
- There are rechargeable LED mood lights and candles in our restaurants.
- For cleaning, we use natural means. We make little to no use of chemicals.
- We encourage vegetarian eating among our staff and have a vegetarian day at least once a week.
- Appliances and lights are only turned on when in use.
- We are conscious of our print usage. We print as little as possible and are trying to digitize more and more.
- We handle laundry sustainably. For example, bathrobes are no longer put in the room by default; each guest gets what he needs at check-in.
- The laundromat no longer wraps our laundry carts in plastic but uses reusable covers.
- The small bottles of shampoo and dochegel in our hotel rooms have been replaced with large, refillable bottles
- Our straws are eco-friendly and fully biodegradable.
- Whenever possible, we print on environmentally friendly paper such as Paperwise, made from agricultural waste.
- At the spa, we use reusable cotton pads.
- We partner with Hotels for Trees. If people spend several nights with us, they can skip the cleanup. For this, Hotels for Trees plants a tree.
Future developments
Every day we try to make our products more sustainable without compromising on quality and comfort. All our employees are responsible for continuing to make our products more sustainable and for keeping in mind whether there are better alternatives with every choice. Everyone is free to come up with ideas and to call others to account for behavior or actions that are not sustainable. In a special Green Team consultation, all departments are represented to continue to look for opportunities to become more sustainable.
As a result, the list of sustainable examples will certainly grow in the future. For example, we are in the process of installing automatic lighting with sensors.
A great opportunity to become even more sustainable is the purchase of a bio-digester. This will allow us to generate biogas. We can use the residual product as fertilizer for our future vegetable garden.
Do you have any ideas on how we can become more sustainable? Mail it to us: info@fortresortbeemster.nl.
Surroundings
As one of the large companies in the Beemster, we also have an eye for our environment. We support local causes such as the hospice and donate toys to children for whom this is not obvious. We partner with Hotels for Trees an organization that helps hotels reduce their environmental impact by planting trees for every overnight stay where a guest chooses not to use a cleaning service. Thus, a stay at our resort becomes not only a moment of relaxation and luxury, but also an investment in a more sustainable future.
We are an accredited apprenticeship company and offer internships and apprenticeships throughout the year. In addition, we are happy to give tours to interested parties.
