Grand Mercure Hongqiao Shanghai recently honored as “China Green Hotel”

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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 31, 2010 -- Grand Mercure Hongqiao Shanghai was recently honored as “China Green Hotel” voted by National Green Hotel Committee.

Grand Mercure Hongqiao Shanghai is dedicated to the green environmental protection since its opening. As a Green Hotel, Grand Mercure Hongqiao shows its excellent performance in green design, energy conservation, management, and material consumption reduction.

In Grand Mercure Hongqiao, the management convinces its hotel guests to choose reusable amenities to replace the disposable ones, replace incandescent lamps with energy-saving bulbs in guestrooms, and more importantly, the hotel is also one of the pilot hotels that participate in the Accor “Plant for the Planet” program. This program proposes guests to reuse their barth towels during their stay. Each time when 5 bath towels are reused, one tree is pledged to be planted in a forest in order to stop global deforestation. In addition to these improvements, Grand Mercure Hongqiao also advocates its guests to follow environmental protection project.

As an excellent unit, the hotel has won good reputation among the community by improving hardware and services, and it will surely continue to support the energy conservation and sustainable development as usual.