Grifid Hotel Vistamar

Beautiful GRIFID HOTELS are situated in one of the best sea resorts in Bulgaria - Golden Sands resort. Being wonderful place for vacation, the hotels are offering exceptional food and excellent service combined with the natural beauty of the sea and the gentle touch of the golden sands.

Realizing how important is nature for functioning of their business, the hotels’ management developed and implemented a policy that keeps and protects the natural resources, but also minimize business operational impact on the environment through good practices and modern methods in our work.

Hotels activities which contribute to the environmental protection:

• The hotels strictly comply with the Bulgarian and European legislation and norms with respect to the environmental protection, labor and human rights, health and safety, financial norms and requirements;
• Introduced a set of criteria not only with respect to guest satisfaction, but related to reduction of electricity, gas, water and fuel consumption, less use of hazardous substances and detergents;
• inform, invite and make aware their customers and staff how to save water and electricity, to separate the waste, to be involved in activities related to cleaning and protection of the environment. They invite their guests to use their bath towels more than once in order to reduce the negative impact of the laundry detergents. Information on sustainable tourism can be found in the kiosks situated in the lobbies, on the information boards in the common areas in each of the hotels;
• All rooms and common areas are with energy efficient lighting, movement censors and censor for automatic shutdown of the air conditioning in the room upon an open door. Showers, sinks and toilets are with minimum water consumption;
• GRIFID HOTELS Laundry is opened in 2015, the machines are with highest class of energy efficiency and low consumption of water and laundry detergents;
• All cleaning detergents used in the kitchens, restaurants and bars and housekeeping are environmentally safety – quickly or absolutely dissolved;
• Transportation for all employees to the working place in order to minimize the negative effect of the car emission;
• Organized waste separation: paper, metal, plastics, glass, biodegraded waste. All goods are delivered in big packaging in order to minimize the disposal waste;
• GRIFID HOTELS organize and take active part in social and charity activities to improve the touristic infrastructure, cultural and natural resources of Varna region;
• Purchasing food products for the restaurants from local producers;
• Stimulate the clients during summer season to visit more cultural and natural places of interest;
• Use electronic mail communication in order to reduce print outs and paper use;
• Train their staff on environmental commitments, so they understand the role they play in delivering objectives and targets of the environmental policy;
• Invite the guests to support their efforts to reduce our environmental impacts.

Reduce the waste production in all areas of the hotel by:

• Purchase in bulk to avoid excess packaging;
• Refill toner and printer cartridges;
• Separating as much as possible our waste streams including glass, paper, cardboard;
• Ensure that all solid waste is disposed in compliance with national and international waste regulation and keeping a record to reflect the compliance.