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UNICEF Friends of Hotels program a great success
27/05/2024
May 27, 2024. This morning, Casual Hoteles presented the check to the UNICEF Valencian Community Committee for the awareness-raising and fundraising activities carried out throughout 2023 at 13 of the hotel chain's properties, totaling €27,009.27. This amount allows UNICEF to provide drinking water to 2,571 children for a full year.
Since Casual Hoteles began collaborating with the UNICEF Valencian Community Committee in 2017 as part of the UNICEF Friends Hotels program, the chain's establishments have raised a total of €81,440.68 through this program, an amount that will enable UNICEF to provide drinking water to 7,755 children for a year.
During the event, the president and founder of Casual Hoteles, Juan Carlos Sanjuán, emphasized that "it is vital for us to always seek a balance between business and social development. To achieve this, since our inception, we have implemented social responsibility in everything we do, incorporating this awareness into all of the chain's operations and engaging both our employees and our customers. In this regard, we are very grateful to all the people who have participated in the various campaigns and initiatives we have organized to help children around the world have a better childhood."
For his part, Celestino Suárez, President of the UNICEF Valencian Community Committee, praised "Casual Hoteles' invaluable commitment to children, which has continued over the years and through crises, such as the pandemic. Thanks to their support, the lives of specific children are transformed with safe access to water and sanitation, which is their right," and encouraged other hotels in the Valencian Community to join the initiative.
About UNICEF Friends Hotels Spain:
UNICEF Spain's Friends of Hotels program allocates the funds raised to combat the effects of climate change on children. Thanks to this commitment, it is possible to expand access to adequate water, sanitation, and hygiene services for families and communities lacking them.
With the significant support of partners like Casual Hoteles and programs like Hoteles Amigos de UNICEF, the organization works in more than 100 countries to help provide access to safe drinking water and reliable sanitation.
These services are essential for children's survival and development. With the intensification of heat waves, floods, and droughts—natural disasters exacerbated by climate change—water distribution systems (reservoirs, pipes, fountains, etc.) are often destroyed. Furthermore, these phenomena leave contaminated water in their wake, endangering children's lives due to outbreaks of diseases such as cholera and diarrhea.
Through the Friends Hotels program, a program that promotes responsible tourism, all businesses in the tourism sector and their clients can contribute to combating the consequences of climate change for children. Participating hotels conduct awareness campaigns on the impact of climate change on water and raise funds for UNICEF's water and sanitation programs.
Guests can also donate during check-in at participating hotels or participate in events and activities sponsored by the hotels. For €1, UNICEF can provide drinking water to a child for a month.
Climate change directly affects the health, education, protection, and development of children, especially those living in the poorest areas. This can have irreversible effects on children, but it can be halted with actions aimed at improving access to adequate water, sanitation, and hygiene.
In 2022, nearly 120 million people gained access to safe drinking water, 26 million gained at least basic sanitation services, and 39 million people gained access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services in humanitarian emergencies (including crises in Gaza, Ukraine, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and others).
About UNICEF:
UNICEF works in some of the world's toughest places to reach the world's most disadvantaged children. In 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for all.
About Casual Hotels:
Casual Hoteles is a Valencian hotel company founded in 2013 by Juan Carlos Sanjuán, with the goal of becoming a benchmark for themed urban accommodations in Spain. All of its hotels feature unique decor inspired by the destinations in which they are located, and offer high-quality standards and central locations at affordable prices.
They are fun, surprising, and provocative, making Casual Hoteles a disruptive chain that, in 2018, was recognized with the Hostelco Award for “Best Hotel Concept”; and in 2023, it won the First Prize for Sustainable Tourism from HOSBEC, in the category of “Best Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy.”
In this regard, the group also stands out for its policy of strong social and environmental commitment through its own Code of Ethics, and for its collaborations with NGOs such as Save the Children and UNICEF, among others. Currently, Casual Hoteles has 24 hotels and 869 rooms in 13 cities in Spain, Portugal, and Italy, of which 1 is owned, 1 is managed, 15 are leased, and 7 are franchised.
Since Casual Hoteles began collaborating with the UNICEF Valencian Community Committee in 2017 as part of the UNICEF Friends Hotels program, the chain's establishments have raised a total of €81,440.68 through this program, an amount that will enable UNICEF to provide drinking water to 7,755 children for a year.
During the event, the president and founder of Casual Hoteles, Juan Carlos Sanjuán, emphasized that "it is vital for us to always seek a balance between business and social development. To achieve this, since our inception, we have implemented social responsibility in everything we do, incorporating this awareness into all of the chain's operations and engaging both our employees and our customers. In this regard, we are very grateful to all the people who have participated in the various campaigns and initiatives we have organized to help children around the world have a better childhood."
For his part, Celestino Suárez, President of the UNICEF Valencian Community Committee, praised "Casual Hoteles' invaluable commitment to children, which has continued over the years and through crises, such as the pandemic. Thanks to their support, the lives of specific children are transformed with safe access to water and sanitation, which is their right," and encouraged other hotels in the Valencian Community to join the initiative.
About UNICEF Friends Hotels Spain:
UNICEF Spain's Friends of Hotels program allocates the funds raised to combat the effects of climate change on children. Thanks to this commitment, it is possible to expand access to adequate water, sanitation, and hygiene services for families and communities lacking them.
With the significant support of partners like Casual Hoteles and programs like Hoteles Amigos de UNICEF, the organization works in more than 100 countries to help provide access to safe drinking water and reliable sanitation.
These services are essential for children's survival and development. With the intensification of heat waves, floods, and droughts—natural disasters exacerbated by climate change—water distribution systems (reservoirs, pipes, fountains, etc.) are often destroyed. Furthermore, these phenomena leave contaminated water in their wake, endangering children's lives due to outbreaks of diseases such as cholera and diarrhea.
Through the Friends Hotels program, a program that promotes responsible tourism, all businesses in the tourism sector and their clients can contribute to combating the consequences of climate change for children. Participating hotels conduct awareness campaigns on the impact of climate change on water and raise funds for UNICEF's water and sanitation programs.
Guests can also donate during check-in at participating hotels or participate in events and activities sponsored by the hotels. For €1, UNICEF can provide drinking water to a child for a month.
Climate change directly affects the health, education, protection, and development of children, especially those living in the poorest areas. This can have irreversible effects on children, but it can be halted with actions aimed at improving access to adequate water, sanitation, and hygiene.
In 2022, nearly 120 million people gained access to safe drinking water, 26 million gained at least basic sanitation services, and 39 million people gained access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services in humanitarian emergencies (including crises in Gaza, Ukraine, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and others).
About UNICEF:
UNICEF works in some of the world's toughest places to reach the world's most disadvantaged children. In 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for all.
About Casual Hotels:
Casual Hoteles is a Valencian hotel company founded in 2013 by Juan Carlos Sanjuán, with the goal of becoming a benchmark for themed urban accommodations in Spain. All of its hotels feature unique decor inspired by the destinations in which they are located, and offer high-quality standards and central locations at affordable prices.
They are fun, surprising, and provocative, making Casual Hoteles a disruptive chain that, in 2018, was recognized with the Hostelco Award for “Best Hotel Concept”; and in 2023, it won the First Prize for Sustainable Tourism from HOSBEC, in the category of “Best Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy.”
In this regard, the group also stands out for its policy of strong social and environmental commitment through its own Code of Ethics, and for its collaborations with NGOs such as Save the Children and UNICEF, among others. Currently, Casual Hoteles has 24 hotels and 869 rooms in 13 cities in Spain, Portugal, and Italy, of which 1 is owned, 1 is managed, 15 are leased, and 7 are franchised.
