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𝗖𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁. 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗰𝘂𝗲𝗿. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁’𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗚𝗦𝗧𝗖 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.  🌿Meet Mansur Ahmed, GM, Somerset Greenways Chennai and Sustainability Champion, India – 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; it’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 Ascott’s first Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) certification. “I felt I had gotten myself into something so huge – every process, every initiative needed evidence to calculate our carbon footprint. But when we achieved it, we felt acknowledged – we knew we were doing something right.” Today, Ascott India has achieved 100% GSTC certification, as Ascott advances towards 100% GSTC certification globally by 2028. 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿’𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗵𝗮𝘀:  ✅Planted 3,500 saplings to preserve the city’s diminishing green cover  ✅Switched to nearly 100% renewable energy across our Chennai properties ✅Pioneered Peour – 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 ✅Cleaned up over 300kg of trash from Marina Beach ✅ Donated sewing machines and wheelchairs to vulnerable women at Srinivasa Gandhi Nilayam "𝘚𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯," he says. With Mansur, every small step counts – and he’s just getting started. Read more about our sustainability efforts in India in 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁 𝗟𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 on DiscoverASR.com: https://lnkd.in/gixMiDag 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴! #PeopleOfAscott #TheAscottLimited #SustainableHospitality #India #ESG #ResponsibleTravel #StayYourWay