HOTEL CARLOTA
Pichincha Province, Ecuador
October 2019
Accommodation
Service with Significant Environmental Footprint
Ecuador
CARLOTA presents a concept of sustainable tourism that is focused on preserving the environment with high impact solutions and social awareness. CARLOTA the 1st hotel in Ecuador and the 1st in a world heritage center to obtain the LEED Gold certification and the 1st in Ecuador to become a triple impact B company. CARLOTA is a hotel of sustainable design, which takes into account all its stakeholders honoring values and dignity as individuals, whose concept of value we hope is scalable and contributes as an example to the solution of inequality in the country and in the region. CARLOTA presenta un concepto de turismo sostenible que está enfocado en precautelar el entorno con soluciones de alto impacto y conciencia social. CARLOTA el 1er hotel en el Ecuador y el 1ero en un centro patrimoniado del mundo en obtener la certificación LEED Gold y el 1ero en el Ecuador en convertirse en una empresa B de triple impacto. CARLOTA es un hotel de diseño sostenible , que toma en cuenta a todos sus stakeholders honrando los valores y dignidad como individuos, cuyo concepto de valor esperamos sea escalable y aporte como ejemplo a la solución de la inequidad en el país y en la región.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 15.3
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Governance 15.3
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 30.0
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Community 22.6
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 15.0
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
Customers 3.2
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.