With sustainability at its core, voco Alkhobar celebrates 3 years

With sustainability at its core, voco Alkhobar celebrates 3 years

Voco Alkhobar, an IHG hotel, recently celebrated three years of growth and success, also coinciding with the third anniversary of 100 other hotels of the voco brand around the world. Several officials, managers and employees of the hotel attended a function in Alkhobar to mark the occasion. M. Allaf, regional general manager of IHG and general manager of voco Riyadh, said: “We are celebrating three years of success and achievements at voco Alkhobar and look forward to many more similar achievements in the years to come, as we are committed to serving the community, and improving the quality of life and well-being of our guests, in order to achieve the goals of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030.” As one of its most laudable achievements, the environment friendly voco has taken up several sustainability practices in accordance with the Vision 2030 goals, which aim at zero carbon neutrality by 2060. voco makes use of large-sized containers for bathroom facilities to reduce plastic waste, in addition to using glass water bottles, thus abandoning more than 300 plastic bottles in each guest room annually. Moreover, the hotel mattress padding is made of 100 percent recycled materials, and ventilated shower heads in the bathroom cut