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What is sustainable hospitality?

100 year old house. Samui.

What is sustainable hospitality?

Trish the Trash Fish at Tembo Samui Beach Club.

Find beach trash. Put it in.

What is sustainable hospitality?

Chao Ley man in Phuket.

What is sustainable hospitality?

“My grandfather was from Hainan.

Most Samui-Chinese are from there.
The wind blew him here in a big sailboat.

He used the mainland like a map until he saw Samui. Such a beautiful island!

So many fish!

When I was a teenager, ships from Bangkok started to pass by on their way to Malaysia.

We would take our boats out to the ship because it was too big to come up to the beaches. They brought food and clothes to sell to us and we sold them our coconuts.

That’s when things started to improve; some people began to send their children to Bangkok to be educated. I couldn’t go though because / was the eldest child.

I had to help my family.”

Khun Suvith
Samui-Chinese, 60 years old, Nathon

What is sustainable hospitality?

Khun Hok is pure Phuket Chinese. His family have been on the island for four generations, his forebears arriving upon one of the many boats filled with Chinese immigrants eager to work the island’s tin boom of the wighteenth century. The family later diversifi and were among the first to plant rubber on i mand and in Phang Nga province. It was al plantations that Khun Hok would get his i job, working the long quiet stands of ruta trees after he had finished his studies at the ire Thai Hua School (now a museum) in Phuket Town.
The peace of farm life has instilled itself in Khun Hok. He is a modest, quiet and, some would say, shy man. But this has not stopped him from forging his own path through life. Now 46 years old, Khun Hok - whose name means Good Luck in Hokkien - is still farming rubber, but at his own 120-hectare plantation near Wat Chalong.

Appreciating the vagaries of world economics and rubber prices, he was not content with resting on a latex laurel and over the years built one of the island’s largest chicken farms at plantation, supplying many of Phuket’s top dels with fresh poultry. When competition m cheaper off-island imports made it difficult compete six years back, he again diversified, wapping chickens for fresh water catfish and adding fruit farming to his repertoire, with durian, pumpkin and sator plants interspersed amid the rubber.

Having gained a degree in Economics from Suankruab University in Banglok, Khun Hok understands how the development of Phuket’s tourism industry has changed the island and the benefits it has given to many of its people.

His chicken farm prospered from it during the early days, and today his fruit and catfish sell to the restaurants that service the growing tourist trade.

But when asked what he misses the most from when he was young, his eyes brighten and his usual introspection is gone. “When I was a boy,” he says, smiling at the memory, “I remember my parents would take us all for picnics on the beach in Patong, We would catch sand crabs and cook them. There was no one else, except the fishermen. Patong was like our own private beach.”

What is sustainable hospitality?

“Ta used to go fishing and I would dry coconuts and extract the oil. It was used in lamps at night time. You know, we sent our child to study in Bangkok. We were so proud.

I’ve cooked for Ta everyday for nearly forty years. We eat good food: fish, vegetables- healthy food. Samui people like their food spicy, but not too hot. And coconut milk makes us strong for walking and doing
the gardening.”

Khun Yaai Yaei
75 years old and her husband
Khun Ta Ruam
78 years old, Bophut

We have news! 📣

We’re expanding our sustainability tracking offering to the hotel industry with the launch of our Eco Stay Awards 2024.

Opting, as always, for a data-driven approach, our free-to-enter awards help hotels celebrate their genuine sustainability efforts.

The no-nonsense awards are rooted in the GSTC Industry Criteria for Hotels across four categories:

🏆 Environmental Impact (13 Awards)
🏆 Sustainability Planning (6 Awards)
🏆 Local Community (5 Awards)
🏆 Cultural Heritage (3 Awards)

Know any hotel leaders in your network?

We’d love you to spread the word 🙏

Announcing! The "10% Challenge" - a 100-school race to reduce energy and water on campus by 10%.

Want to empower your students to lead real climate action on campus?

Using a lite version of our dashboard to track only 5 data points each month, this a sure way to add zing to your school's sustainability journey.

100 schools from around the world reducing consumption by 10% could mean a collective saving of more than 400,000 tons of Co2 - not to mention the 💰 savings on your monthly bills.

All 10% Challenge schools receive:

✅ Free access to the (lite) tracking dashboard during the challenge
✅ A free Sustainability online ECA for your eco-committee
✅ A free 100-page Teacher Resource Pack
✅ Certification for your eco committee students + teachers
✅ Access to a community of 10% Challenge schools for knowledge-sharing

Is this something your students can get behind?

Register your school's interest via the link in the comments 👇 All existing subscribers of the full Tuu dashboard will be automatically entered.

According to a survey of 4,600 students in the UK by Students Organising for Sustainability (sos-uk.org)...

✅ 71% are interested in learning more about the environment
✅ 84% agree that all schools and colleges should be encouraging and helping pupils to do things that protect the environment
✅ 51% say they would like to be involved with projects or activities at their school or college that help the environment

Now is the time for schools to nurture tomorrow's green leaders - our last hope to change generational thinking about climate change.

Announcing! The launch of our first multimedia sustainability course for secondary students. We're giving free access to the first 100 schools.

Read more here: bit.ly/3tSsIYr

Does your school track its sustainability?

With our dashboard and monthly rating there are three levels to tackle: Entry, Advanced and Expert.

We know sustainability can be a lot. So start simple, do better every month and use your Tuu Rating badge to easily communicate your progress ✌️

It's World Refill Day! 🌏

What are your students doing today to help tackle plastic pollution and waste? What are they doing every day?

We'd love to hear your ideas in the comments!

We're giving away access codes for our sustainability course to 100 schools!

Nurture tomorrow’s green leaders with this 12-hour course "An introduction to sustainability". It's perfect to use as an Extra Curricular Activity or summer coursework.

Apply for your school here:

https://tuu.eco/free-school-sustainability-course

There will soon be more plastic in our oceans than fish.

Based on current projections, the amount of plastic in the oceans is predicted to double by 2030 and nearly triple by 2040, to 29 million tonnes per year (imagine the weight of 193,000 blue whales).

Of the seven billions tonnes of plastic waste generated globally so far, less than 10 percent has been recycled according to the United Nations Environment Programme.

What does your school do with its plastic waste?

Now is the time to find out and inspire change among your students - the green leaders of tomorrow.

Imagine tracking your spending yearly as a way to desperately save money. Or tracking your calories annually to quickly lose weight 🤔

You wouldn't.

Which is why our sustainability rating for schools is a monthly score; real time tracking means immediate decision making.

Make operational changes more quickly, improve your Tuu Rating and share your school’s sustainability progress with stakeholders, parents and the community.

In real time - like the world depends on it.

With world leaders failing us, it’s now crucial to empower young people with sustainability in schools, says our co-founder Ian Paynton.

Simplicity is the key for sustainability in schools It’s now crucial to engage young people and keep things simple with sustainability in schools, says Tuu cofounder Ian Paynton

Empower a small sustainability team to spearhead action in your school.

It could be headed up by a member of staff and volunteer students, which meets every other week. Parents could be included too.

Give this team ownership to make sustainability proposals based on actual data while tracking monthly progress.

There is no time for inaction. Young people are our final hope.

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What impact does your school have on the wider community?

Track your existing outreach activities using the Tuu dashboard, set goals and improve your monthly Tuu Rating by…

✅ Encouraging students and staff to volunteer in the community
✅ Hosting community-led events
✅ Donating to local charities

It's estimated that U.S school food waste totals 530,000 tons per year and costs as much as $9.7 million a day to manage, according to a WWF report that sampled 46 schools in the U.S.

How does your school manage its food waste? Track it using the Tuu dashboard and set goals to reduce it over time.

By doing so, you will save your school money 💸 and help it contribute to the following Sustainable Development Goals:

✅ 1 - No Poverty
✅ 2 - Zero Hunger
✅ 10 - Reduced Inequalities
✅ 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
✅ 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
✅ 13 - Climate Action

Introducing! Tuu - the sustainability tracker for schools.

We help school leaders and students structure their sustainability efforts, measure improvements and simply report progress with stakeholders and parents.

Shape tomorrow’s green leaders. Put your students at the heart of your school’s sustainability efforts with our collaborative tracking dashboard and extra curricular sustainability courses - coming soon!

How much green space does your school offer its students?

According to the World Health Organisation, every *city* is recommended to provide a minimum of 9 square metres of urban green space for each person – provided that it's accessible, safe and functional.

How does your school stack up against these guidelines for cities?

There is no better time to find out and set improvement targets. By doing so, your school will be working proactively to achieve Sustainable Development Goals 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing), 4 (Quality Education) and 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities).