COLUMBIA BEACH RESORT The Five Star luxury Destination where sustainability matters

Epitomising our unique brand of hospitality with heart.

Columbia Beach Resort continues to forge ahead with powerful and empowering initiatives tasked with safeguarding their sublime surroundings.

Badge of Honour

Every year, Columbia Beach Resort’s team actively seeks out opportunities to engage in socially and environmentally mindful pursuits, and have been honoured with a collection of prestigious recognitions to this end, including being bestowed a Green Key Award (an international eco-label for tourism facilities that display high-standard compliance with a strict set of criteria, spanning environmental management, and water and energy efficiency, to green activities and corporate social responsibility), as well as being welcomed into Small Luxury Hotels’ (SLH) founding ‘Considerate Collection’, a bespoke community of 26 hotels, which go the extra ‘eco-mile’ in proving that luxury is compatible with longevity. Indeed, now, more than ever, it is not a choice or a luxury to act upon the footprints of their operations to neutralise their impact: it is a necessity and a badge of honour that they wear proudly in leading by example that when there is a will, there is also, indeed, a way.

And, so Columbia Beach Resort continues to forge forward into a future uncompromising in its need for social and environmental awareness and action, investing themselves wholeheartedly upon a journey of sustainability, with many significant steps taken over the last 12 months to this end.

Seeking Solutions

The resort now operates ‘off grid’ in terms of water consumption following the installation of a 3 rd degree treatment facility that sees every drop of wastewater recycled for use on its lush 33,000 square meters of landscaped gardens. Excess treated water is supplied to local farmers and in times of natural water scarcity, the resort will turn to its desalination plant to ensure guest needs are met. Water saving devices are also established throughout the resort and include auto-stop taps and 2-phase flush toilets. Moreover, given the resort’s stunning backdrop of Pissouri Bay, they are particularly mindful of the detrimental effect of plastic pollution on the earth’s waters and the associated impact this has on marine wildlife. Thus, they are proud to have pursued a partnership with Minoa Water, a pioneering business that provides drinking water encased in fully recyclable packaging.

Eco-friendly products (such as chlorine-free cleaning chemicals and products derived from renewable resources) have long been utilised across the resort, and Columbia Beach Resort is now operating with zero CO2 emissions, thanks to the employment of sustainable alternatives to a traditional boiler and new electromechanical upgrades, which allow individual building systems to heat water as