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www.travelweeklyweb.com www.travelweeklyweb.com 12 | ■ TRAVELWeekly AsiA | MAY 2014 HoTels Art-inspired Rendezvous Hotel Singapore captures the imagination of guests Hotel is a refreshing departure of a typical city hotel. SINGAPORE – Ever since Far East Hospitality unveiled its radically transformed Rendezvous Hotel Singapore in January, it has captured the imagination of guests with its injection of numerous art-inspired elements across multiple experiential points for guests. Located at the heart of Singapore's art and cultural district, Rendezvous Hotel Singapore offers a canvas of unlimited opportunities to connect hospitality with art. In addition to bridging the gap for travelers who enjoy immersing in an artistic environment, the Rendezvous Hotel Singapore is primed to be an art hothouse via collaborations with budding and professional artists from Singapore and around the world. In reflecting the hotel's vibrant energy and new artistic personality, Far East Hospitality redesigned several guest touch points into a visual spectacle of art with the use of technology. Upon entering the hotel, guests are greeted by a floor-to-ceiling wall panel behind the reception counter that displays varying color tones throughout the day. In addition, the reception area subtly transforms its color palette from warm orange, purple and magenta to reflect a sense of vibrant excitement during the day, to a soothing, classy warm yellow, cyan and deep blue during the evening. As an active participant of the local arts scene, Rendezvous Hotel Singapore offers dedicated spaces to showcase collaborations with local art galleries. This is further enabled by the use of technology, where motorised drapes and tracks are installed in the hotel lobby and level two gallery spaces to facilitate art and design-related exhibitions. The bodies of work on display will be made available for guests to view and purchase. Rendezvous Hotel Singapore's lobby area. Inside Rendezvous Hotel Singapore. Crowne Plaza Changi Airport awarded Gold EarthCheck Certification Hotel is the first in Singapore to achieve the certification. SINGAPORE – Crowne Plaza Changi Airport has become the first hotel in Singapore to be awarded the prestigious and coveted Gold Certification through the world's leading sustainability certifier of travel and tourism Organisations, EarthCheck. This exciting "first" underscores the hotel's dedication towards leading sustainability practices in the hotel industry and building a responsible business with a firm commitment to the environment. EarthCheck is designed specifically for the travel and tourism industry. Organisations are evaluated against eleven EarthCheck benchmarks and a number of key indicators are measured including energy and water consumption, total waste production, and community commitment. Operational data submitted by similar organisations are compared before being rated against "Baseline" and Best Practice" levels. Attaining the Gold Certification involves a strict auditing process of reporting and verifying the hotels environmental performance for five consecutive years. Crowne Plaza Changi Airport is one of the rare organizations to have achieved the Gold Certification within five years. To promote sustainability, the hotel spearheads environmental activities and engages hotel staff, clients and suppliers encouraging them to participate in best environmental management practices. The hotel also consistently reduces resources and energy consumption introduced water saving control systems in guest rooms and public toilets, and carry out waste management technology techniques to reduce, reuse and recycle waste through effective waste separation. Crowne Plaza Changi Airport has been certified by EarthCheck for its environmental initiatives since 2010. The hotel has also been recognised by ASEAN Green Hotel Awards 2014 and Singapore Green Hotel Award 2013.

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