Thai Hotel Environmental Quality Standards

Thailand has received a lot of tourists every year and out of which many are repeat visitors. The Thai people are planning to improve their lifestyle. They have already stopped smoking in public places as passive smoking is equally dangerous as active smoking even not more than that. The city’s smoke free campaign has become famous worldwide. In Thailand you can find smoke free buses, trains, flights, and other types of public transportation. People have become aware of the thing and thus you will have smoke free restaurants, theatres, cinema halls, public buildings, and most recently many of the government offices are also included in the list.

As recent development seventeen hotels in Thailand set themselves as smoke free. It is done by the Green Leaf Foundation with the help of Thai Health Promotion Foundation. At present ten to twenty percent of the hotel rooms are smoke free. But the organizations think that they will be able make the whole city smoke free. Hotel accommodations ill be completely smoke free and thus pollution will be less. The Green Leaf Foundation was officially registered in the year 1998. The founder partners of this organization are Thai Hotels Association i.e. THA, Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand i.e. EGAT, Association for the Development of Environmental Quality i.e. ADEQ, Tourism Authority of Thailand i.e. TAT, United Nations Environment Programme i.e. UNEP, and Metropolitan Waterworks Authority i.e. MWA.

These Green Leaf hotels are renowned as they promise to conserve the environment. They have strong in house programme which implement some environment friendly exercises. They have campaigned for some environment friendly activities such as recycling, water management, proper waste management, etc. The smoke free program in Thai hotels is funded by 6 million baht from Thai health promotion. The fund will rolled out from 2006 through 2007. It is estimate that after completion of the project there will be three hundred smoke free hotels which will be formally certified in Thailand.