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๐—–๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐—พ๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜. ๐—ง๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐—ฒ๐—ฟ. ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—”๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜๐˜โ€™๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—š๐—ฆ๐—ง๐—– ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป.ย  ๐ŸŒฟMeet Mansur Ahmed, GM, Somerset Greenways Chennai and Sustainability Champion, India โ€“ the first in our new series celebrating the #SustainabilityChamps driving real impact at The Ascott Limited. At 2am, when most of us are asleep, Mansur and his team are on Marina Beach saving over 100 endangered Olive Ridley turtle eggs alongside the Tamil Nadu Forest Department. But this is no surprise to those who know him; itโ€™s a natural extension of a lifelong passion from tending trees and aquariums in his youth to shaping a rooftop garden and koi pond at his property today. When #AscottCARES launched in 2022, Mansur volunteered to lead Ascottโ€™s first Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) certification. โ€œI felt I had gotten myself into something so huge โ€“ every process, every initiative needed evidence to calculate our carbon footprint. But when we achieved it, we felt acknowledged โ€“ we knew we were doing something right.โ€ Today, Ascott India has achieved 100% GSTC certification, as Ascott advances towards 100% GSTC certification globally by 2028. ๐—จ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฟโ€™๐˜€ ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฝ, ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—บ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜€:ย  โœ…Planted 3,500 saplings to preserve the cityโ€™s diminishing green coverย  โœ…Switched to nearly 100% renewable energy across our Chennai properties โœ…Pioneered Peour โ€“ a fully-automated water bottling plant that has phased out single-use plastic drinking bottles at Somerset Greenways Chennai and Citadines OMR Chennai, preventing more than 168,000 plastic bottles from entering landfills and oceans each year โœ…Cleaned up over 300kg of trash from Marina Beach โœ… Donated sewing machines and wheelchairs to vulnerable women at Srinivasa Gandhi Nilayam "๐˜š๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ด ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต๐˜บ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ," he says. With Mansur, every small step counts โ€“ and heโ€™s just getting started. Read more about our sustainability efforts in India in ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—”๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜๐˜ ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ ๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜ on DiscoverASR.com: https://lnkd.in/gixMiDag ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜š๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ ๐˜Š๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ด ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ด! #PeopleOfAscott #TheAscottLimited #SustainableHospitality #India #ESG #ResponsibleTravel #StayYourWay

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