The cooperation of Radisson Hotels with the international water charity “Just a Drop” brings safe drinking water to water-stressed communities in Kenya, Nicaragua, Peru and India. Radisson Hotels collect donations through the towel reuse program. Every 500 times a guest chooses to use their towel for a second night, Radisson Hotels donate funds to Just a Drop to provide a child with safe drinking water for life.

Just a Drop projects help communities to improve health and nutrition, provide food security and stimulate the community’s rise out of poverty. Especially the women and children are positively impacted as they no longer have to walk long distances to collect water. To date, funds collected through the initiative have funded the construction of a sand dam, a water abstraction shallow well, a rock water-catchment, and two school water tanks, agricultural training and seeds high in quality. Thanks to this initiative, over 17,250 people now have access to safe water tanks.

Radisson Hotels partners with Diversey and launched the Soap for Hope™ program in September 2016 as part of Think Planet. This program recycles used hotel soaps into fresh bars for distribution in local communities with limited access to hygiene and sanitation. Currently more than 50 hotels in Middle East, Africa & Asia Pacific are participating.

Radisson Hotels do everything they can to protect the local environment and respect its unique, champion local cultures and the people who preserve them, preserve and encourage natural biodiversity. The Radisson Collection Royal Mile Edinburgh created its own signature honey by welcoming 180,000 bees around the hotel. After eight weeks of hard work, the bees produced their first batch of delicious honey, offered to guests at breakfast.

Radisson RED, the new lifestyle select brand centred around art, music and fashion, connected fashion with responsible consumption. Radisson RED hotels held a fashionable Swap Party (Trading your unwanted ones with the originals for the sake of community). In the scope of this initiative, the people were asked to bring their long used and unwanted items (Clothes, shoes, bags, books, music items….) and were given tokens for each item they brought. With these tokens, they bought original items which were brought to the party by the community. The remaining items were donated to a local charity.

Park Inn by Radisson partnered with Joel Bergner for a third time, supporting local youth at risk, allowing local youth and hotel employees to create murals in Stuttgart (Germany); Riga (Latvia); St Petersburg (Russia) and Bucharest (Romania).

In 2017, Radisson Blu and Park Inn by Radisson hotels in the Middle East took part in our annual Box Appeal, a month-long annual charity campaign in which the general public including the support from prominent companies to give back to those who need it most.

The Appeal distributed 11,000+ boxes filled with 12 essentials (a t-shirt, a cap, a disposable razor, shaving cream, deodorant, a toothbrush, toothpaste, hand towels, a comb, anti-bacterial soap, shampoo and talcum powder) to underprivileged laborers and people in need. What started as a small charity project by Radisson Blu Hotel Dubai Media City in 2008, has now grown to be a major success story, and is now firmly established in the UAE by exceeding the donation over 110.000 boxes in its tenth year. This represents a total in-kind donation of about €2.3 million.

Dealing with youth unemployment is a global responsibility. Youth Career Initiative is an employability program that partners with local hotels to give disadvantaged young people (aged 17-24) the chance to learn a range of skills across a variety of departments.

Radisson Hotels have been a partner of YCI for many years with its more than 24 hotels in seven countries. During its partnership, Radisson Hotels have contributed to train more than 200 students and more than 85% of them either get a job or continue their education proving the high success of this program. By giving career opportunities to the vulnerable youth, the company gains great, new, young and dynamic colleagues.

One of these hotels that participated in this program is Radisson Blu Lusaka, Zambia, helping Dalitso discover a talent for work in the kitchen. Dalitso is an unprivileged youth that had to leave school to look for a job as he had to earn money for his grandmother with her 6 orphanages. His dedication and enthusiasm throughout the training and mentoring process convinced managers to offer him a role once the programme was completed, giving him a future he could never have envisaged before. Dalitso is one of those whose dreams came true thanks to the partnership with YCI.

One of these hotels that participated in this program is Radisson Blu Lusaka, Zambia, helping Dalitso discover a talent for work in the kitchen. Dalitso is an unprivileged youth that had to leave school to look for a job as he had to earn money for his grandmother with her 6 orphanages. His dedication and enthusiasm throughout the training and mentoring process convinced managers to offer him a role once the programme was completed, giving him a future he could never have envisaged before. Dalitso is one of those whose dreams came true thanks to the Radisson Hospitality AB Partnership with YCI.