Earth Guest day
Every April 22, on the International Earth day, Accor mobilizes its own 145,000 employees around the world to organize actions and events in favour of sustainable development.
In 2010, the fourth edition of Earth Guest day brought together Accor employees from 71 countries.
This year again, Accor employees mobilized in 71 countries through hundreds of various actions around the Earth Guest program’ eight priorities: tree planting, distribution of mosquito nets and condoms to employees, organic lunches, and many other actions…
Earth Guest day 2010 was also marked by Accor’s support to “Stop Talking. Start Planting”, another initiative that partners UNEP’s “Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign”. Involving 132 children from 45 countries, the campaign is intended to raise awareness among the general public and political leaders of their responsibility to future generations. Accor hotels in a number of large cities provide these young ambassadors with free access to their conference facilities so that they can more effectively transmit their message to schoolchildren, customers, employees, and important local figures.
In 2009, Accor employees of 77 countries mobilized for Earth Guest day.
- In 2008, more than 77 countries participated in the event through hundreds of actions.
In 2007, the first edition of Earth Guest day brought together teams from 69 countries.
This first day in the history of the Group brought employees together to conduct a large number of projects around the world: planting of 20,000 trees in the United States, creation of an ecological arc to fight the advance of the desert in Ivory Coast, actions taken to protect animal species in Austria, France and the Netherlands, organization of a march for the protection of children in Thailand, gift of one day from the employees in 35 cities in Latin America to support local development, repair of health care centers for children suffering from HIV/AIDS in South Africa and India, sale of chocolate to finance a literacy project in the club cars of Compagnie des Wagons-Lits in France, Spain, and Portugal, and the clean-up of nature sites in Saudi Arabia, Hungary, Egypt and Reunion Island.