The Tamboho Boutik Hotel located in Antananarivo is the first tourism establishment to receive the Green Key in Madagascar.

Green Key is pleased to announce its first awarded establishment in Madagascar. Ideally located in Ankorondrano, in the private and secured Tana Water Front, the Tamboho Boutik Hotel provides guests privacy and tranquility just a stone’s throw away from the city center and close to the business area. Settled on the shore of a small lake on one side and on a mini-mall with cinema and shops on the other, the Tamboho provides a perfect blend of Malagasy traditional architecture and western comfort.

Despite the pandemic, the management of the Tamboho Boutik Hotel decided to pursue the Green Key to show their returning guests that they care for the local community and the environment.

The hotel has implemented some fantastic initiatives that showcase its commitment to sustainability. For example, they started the campaign “A brunch @ Tamboho = A tree planted with Bondy”. For each brunch sold, the hotel plants one tree with the organisation Bondy. So far, 1, 250 trees have been planted as part of this project. To ensure that the planted trees are taken care of, Bondy works closely with the landowners and ensures that they can benefit from the trees.

Another great initiative is the hotel’s cooperation with the project “Fanavotana”. The women working in the Fanavotana project collect selected materials from the hotel such as glass, plastic, metal and paper and sell them to professional recycling facilities. Parts of the materials are also used to make jewellery, which is sold at the reception of the hotel

Furthermore, the hotel offers free filtered water to its guests in the guest rooms and the restaurant, replacing the previously offered plastic water bottles with reusable glass bottles. With this initiative, the hotel avoided the use of 37,560 plastic bottles in the guest rooms in the past year.

In addition, the hotel supported the project “Diary Nofy” by “Teach for Madagascar”, which conducted a story writing contest for children. The five best stories were published in a book that was sold at the reception of the hotel. The earnings were used to produce more books which were then distributed to public schools nationwide by the volunteers from Teach for Madagascar. To promote the book, the hotel organised reading sessions in their garden for children from disadvantaged neighbourhoods.

François van Rens, cluster general manager of Tamboho Suites & Hotels about their sustainability efforts and Green Key certification:

Initiatives like these especially with engaged partners give us the opportunity to play an active and positive role in our community and environment. Seeing our efforts recognized by Green Key makes us immensely proud and motivates us to go further.

Green Key congratulates the first certified establishment in Madagascar that is leading the way to sustainable tourism development in the country.

Visit https://www.tambohosuites.com/ to learn more about the hotel.