SOCIETY

Within the framework of its corporate social responsibility, our Group contributes to the economic development of the local communities where we operate, through the implementation of a 100-million-euro investment plan for the period 2018-2021, in refurbishment projects with impressive architectural impact and environmentally sustainable techniques.

A top priority of our operation is to contribute to the preservation of social coherence. We support and cooperate with local businesses and the local community in order to protect local culture and traditions, intellectual, social and cultural development and the wider prosperity of local societies.

Protecting the health and safety of our employees and guests is of outmost importance to us and our hotels and we have established thorough processes and systematic inspections to this end.

For our Group, responsible and sustainable travel is connected to the respect of the local cultures and tradition and trying to create socially and environmentally conscious guests we urge our guests to follow the below suggestions before and during their stay:

• Learn about your destination’s culture before traveling
• Don’t take pictures that could be considered offensive
• When visiting archeological sites, avoid touching the monuments, take pictures only where it is permitted, do not litter and do not take any of the artifacts displayed or fragments of any rocks, metal or clay found on the ground
• When visiting sites of religious importance, such as churches or monasteries, always respect the dress code, avoid taking pictures, even if they are permitted, turn off your mobile phone, lower your voice, avoid eating and drinking inside the temples and always check the opening times
• When visiting natural parks, avoid feeding the wildlife, do not litter, support tourism that does not exploit animals and do not buy souvenirs made from animals
• Give back to the community by supporting local charities, local artists and always prefer buying products from local suppliers

Finally, Mitsis Hotels advocates the global guiding principles and the human rights’ legislation and we are steadfast to ever making a stand for their protection, both, generally and specifically, vis-à-vis to their relevance to working practices, in the context of our business activities and partnerships.

We therefore state that:

• We uphold and respect human rights in every area of our influence
• We remain vigilant and ready to ensure that we will never put ourselves in a position of being accountable for human rights’ violations
• We are against all forms of exploitation of children and we will be advocates for all actions that aim to effectively abolish child labor
• We acknowledge each person's privacy, as a human right
• We expect every employee and partner of ours, to respect any law relating to human rights and any respective practice, as we do
• although the State is responsible for establishing a legal framework for the protection of human rights, it is our belief that as a company and in the context of our activities and our reach, we have a responsibility to respect human rights and to demonstrate the deserving awareness, if it so occurs, to discern violations and immediately call them out for that matter
• We uphold the elimination of all forms of forced labor
• We oppose any kind of discrimination in the workplace
• We create new jobs & business opportunities