For a better future Sustainability
Our hotels primarily aim at providing the best quality service by keeping the guest satisfaction above all together with all of our employees. In accordance with this aim, BHM has adopted the principle of complying with legal requirements in all product and service processes.
As part of its commitment to promote gender equality and women's empowerment in industry and society, BHM has signed the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs), a joint initiative of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and the United Nations Global Compact.
By signing the Women's Empowerment Principles at a special ceremony, BHM committed to implementing the Women's Empowerment Principles with the aim of creating a fair, safe and equal opportunities workplace culture, which it will maintain through its knowledge, expertise and experience of more than 50 years in the sector.
BHM's commitments under the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs), approved by the Board of Directors, include the following principles:
1. Leadership in gender equality at high-level corporate
2. Fair and respectful treatment of male and female employees without gender discrimination
3. Ensuring the health, wellbeing, and safety of employees
4. Supporting the education, training and career development of employees
5. Monitoring enterprise development, supply chain and marketing practices to support women's empowerment
6. Promoting and defending equal opportunities through community initiatives
7. Regular measurement and reporting on gender equality progress
Mr. Haydar BARUT, Chairman of the Board of Directors of BHM, shared his thoughts on the WEPs principles: "We believe that our success is due to the fact that we have created a fair, safe and equal work environment for all our colleagues. As a signatory to the Women's Empowerment Principles, we recognize the important role of women. Our commitment to these principles is our responsibility to shape the future of our company and create value for our society. Our 2023-25 Human Values Strategic Plan reflects this commitment.”
Sima BAHOUS, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, said of BHM as a WEPs signatory: "We congratulate BHM for taking the first step on its WEPs journey. We see BHM as a key partner in closing gender gaps in the workplace, industry and society, and in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals." She emphasized the importance of BHM's role within the framework of the WEPs principles.
Sanda OKIAMBO, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, thanked BHM: "For more than a decade, the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) have helped companies accelerate gender equality and advance women's empowerment in the workplace, industry and society. With women making up half of the world's population but underrepresented in business, the WEPs provide a roadmap for breaking down barriers to women's economic empowerment. I welcome this growing community to BHM and thank you for using the WEPs as a guide to sustainability, leading and shaping the way to a more equitable world where women and girls thrive.”
İbrahim Hakan YILMAZ, Human Values Director of BHM Group, said: "As BHM, we want to provide a fair, safe, dignified and equal work environment for all our employees. By committing to the United Nations Women's Empowerment Principles, we dream of a future where gender equality in business is not just a goal, but the norm," emphasizing the value of the WEPs principles to BHM.
BHM on the UN Women WEPs website: https://www.weps.org/company/bhm-otelcilik
ON WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT PRINCIPLES
The Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) provide guidance to companies on how to promote gender equality and empower women in the workplace, industry and society. Developed jointly by the UN Global Compact and UN Women, the WEPs are based on international labor standards and human rights, and on the recognition that business has an important role to play in promoting gender equality and women's empowerment. Adopting the seven principles is the best way for businesses to achieve the gender equality and women's empowerment goals set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
ABOUT BHM
BHM, which continues to serve in tourism investments with 2600 employees and 4331 bed capacity, has brought a breath of fresh air to Antalya by entering into city hotel management for the first time as Akra and Akra V in 2014 after its businesses in Kemer and Sorgun with the strength and experience gained from its deep-rooted past. With more than 50 years of experience, Akra Hotels brand aims to be "above the competition" with its services, innovative human resources practices and gastronomic experiences in the rapidly growing international hotel industry. BHM continues its tourism investments with Akra Fethiye in 2015 and Akra Fethiye The Residence in 2019, serving the tourism sector with a total of 6 facilities. In addition to tourism, it has the most equipped and cleanest textile washing and cleaning facility in the region, serving with a daily textile cleaning capacity of 80 tons and more than 300 employees in its 12 thousand square meter industrial washing and cleaning facilities located in Antalya Organized Industrial Zone.
Our personnel are our most valuable assets. In order to minimize the risks that may endanger the health and safety of our employees and business partners, and to prevent occupational accidents, we continuously improve all of our processes by ensuring participation and consultation at all levels and follow the latest technologies. Our essential principles are based on training of our employees, protection of human rights and ensuring that they benefit from equal rights regardless of religion, language or race.
It is one of our main targets to prevent environmental pollution by using our natural resources in the most efficient way and to protect nature, reduce the amount of waste, enable recycling or to render the wastes harmless. We are determined to fulfill our obligations with respect to environment, and to ensure use of sustainable resource, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems.
We are committed to provide services better than our competitors with the most effective costs by determining in the best way possible the expectations and requirements of our business partners sharing the same objective with us and our investor, who provides a peaceful and safe working environment for our personnel.
We believe that everyone should bear responsibility for the protection of specially protected/vulnerable groups. We recognise that the well-being of specially protected/vulnerable groups and their protection from all forms of harm is important and that their protection from physical and mental abuse and harassment is our fundamental responsibility.
We are aware of our contribution to the local economy and therefore 95% of our suppliers and raw materials are local. For sustainable tourism, we make environment friendly purchases that result in less energy, water and waste.
We are aware of our contribution to the local economy and therefore 95% of our suppliers and raw materials are local. For sustainable tourism, we make environment friendly purchases that result in less energy, water and waste.
RESPONSIBILITY AND RESPECT FOR
THE ENVIRONMENT
We respect the environment and the Earth to gain respect in our world.
We aim to control water, electricity, energy, chemical, solid waste quantities; to minimize damage caused to the environment and natural resources while making no concessions regarding the comfort of our guests. The use of natural resources has been reduced with measures taken in line with sustainable tourism principles; And practices have been updated to minimize and, where possible, eliminate any damage to soil, water and air.
Recycled materials are sorted in all our hotels.
We are proud to share our recycling figures.
An average of 5.3 tons of paper waste per hotel was recovered in 2016. As a result of recycling one ton of used paper waste, 16 grown pine trees and 85 square meters of forestland will not be destroyed.
An average of 2.2 tons of glass waste per hotel was recovered in 2016. If this glass waste is used in production, 315 kg of carbon dioxide emissions are prevented for every one ton of newly produced glass
An average of 1.6 tons of metal waste per hotel was recovered in 2016. As a result of recycling one ton of metal waste, 1,300 kg of raw material is preserved.
An average of 1.5 tons of plastic waste per hotel was recovered during 2016. As a result of recycling one ton of plastic packing waste, energy savings of 14,000 KWH are achieved. Our hotel, Barut Sensatori Sorgun , has the most extensive greywater treatment system of Turkey’s tourism sector…
Water from hand basins and showers in the hotel is collected, purified, and used in garden irrigation with the greywater treatment system established in line with a project by Tubitak and the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization. The capacity of our system is 100 m³/day; therefore, 100,000 litres of grey water are purified per day and can safely be reused. The studies show that an average of 110 litres of grey water per day are produced by each guest.
