CONTRIBUTING TO PRESERVE OUR PLANET

Casa Santa Mónica, a boutique hotel located in Cali, certified with the Colombian Environmental Seal, likes to share with you the important process for Environmental Management from its building design to our day by day…

We generate environmental reliability looking forward to satisfy all aspects for our guests and consolidating the respect for life, plus solidarity between people and earth…

We would like to leave this environmental legacy , and satisfaction and enjoyment from a hotel that thinks in the environment, health, and

peacefulness for whom share our services

• Constantly improve our process and procedures.

OUR ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENT…

Environmental Policy

• To meet with environmental applicable law• To preserve natural resources such as water, power, natural gas, looking for decreasing their spend• To prevent contamination through the management of solid and liquid waste• To promote an environmental culture in our guests, providers and staff in Casa Santa Monica.

To fulfill this commitment we base our effort in an Environmental Management System to integrate all services we offer.

Specific Goals

• Minimizing, separating, and properly disposal for all dangerous garbage we produce

• Using water efficiently to achieve a better use and contribute the preservation of it.

• Rationalizing power and gas use to optimize their use

• Minimizing and handling properly all chemical products used on our hotel

• Building an information system to follow up and evaluation to allow permanent environmental management process

COLOMBIAN ENVIROMENTAL S EAL

With our Environmental Management System, and compliance of NTC 5133 we were one of he first ones hotels in Colombia certified with Colombian

Environmental Seal, which is the tag for distinguish the hospitality and touristic facilities that offer services with environmental responsibility on their process.

THIS IS OUR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGMENT

EFFIC IENT POWER US E…

We use natural light and ventilation

The huge windows allow natural light to invade the areas offering a warm environment and comfort

integrated with everything around

Being conscious about the need to ration power use, fluorescent light - yellowing

type- is generalized.

WE PREFERE FLOURES CENT

LIGHT

WE US E NATURAL GASFor cooking, washing, laundry and

hot water supply and dish wash.

Gas Stove - Extractor Gas heater

EFFIC IENT WATER US E

We use saver water system on taps and sanitary

We do physical chemical and biological analysis each semester to verify water quality.

We do residual water treatment through grease traps.

We collect rain water for watering plants, washing the streets and cars.

GARBAGE HANDLING

We do an appropriate garbage disposal

We prefer biodegradables or recyclables packing.

We reuse paper, tonner, or packagesWe choose garbage according to each type (recyclable, reusable, or dangerous) properly.

PROPER HANDLING FOR CHEMICAL PRODUCTS

FOTO TEMPORAL. NO ES DE CSM

•We prefer biodegradable products• We use adequate doses suggested by our provider• We train our staff about prevention, handling and safety procedures in chemical spills. •We assure properly signaling and disposition

WE ARE READY TO RES POND TO AN EMERGENCY

We have positioned extinguishers according to industrial safety. Evacuation maps are

shown on visible places around public areas

We design wider stairs with non-skid edges to prevent falls or accidents.

Our areas are properly marked according to the

hotel standard

Casa Santa Mónica has two accessible rooms, with their accessible bathrooms, adequate with bars and wide areas to make easier the comfort and safety to

our guests.

ACCES IBILITY

We are privileged having a forest area near by, where there is a hiking way to take on mornings or practicing some outdoor exercise. We participate on its maintenance

AROUND US

The area we are located is wooded, giving the sensation of freshness, peacefulness, harmonized

by the birds and cicadas singing

The windows are double glasses,

laminated to give double function: to isolate the noise plus make them safer in case a window is

broken, due it was added to a film and it wont be break as

a regular glass.

REDUCING THE NOIS E TO KEEP THE PEACEFULNES S

The toilets are Prestige line, which are the most silent in the market. The noise produced by the drain tubes

has been controlled by the fiberglass all the way long the pipes.

S ILENT TOILETS

WE PROMOTE EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION PROCES S

FOTO TEMPORAL. NO ES DE CSMWe offer permanent education to our team members, qualifying them in every aspect, which is reflected in the excellent care and service provide

to our guests and providers.

We fortalice our organizational culture by environmental awareness, highlighting the value of

life, and the conviction to continue building balanced relationships with our surroundings,

reflecting a warmest approach with our fellows.

Communication is the art for weaving relationships, ideas and meanings… It is the so vital reason to continue

communicating with those whom share our services. We prefer personalized communication and we complete it with

announcements inviting to think and act environmentally

WE PREFER ECOLOGIC

• Our fruits and flower are organically produced.

• We prefer organic supplies to take care of our gardens.

• We have the Garden Hotel´s Guide to teach you identify many of our species.

Pictures for slide 15 y 25 : from Internet Pictures for slide 26 y 29: fromwww. natgeo.com

Other pictures: Matilde y Patricia Escobar – File made for Casa Santa Mónica.

Music: Storms in Africa – Kitaro - Enya

Matilde Escobar J .Arquitect – Enviromental Design

Cel. 313 782 90 04

Patricia Es cobar J .Agricultural – Biologist

Enviromental Managment

Cel. 313 699 00 18

E-mail: gestionambientalenhoteles@gmail.com