Corus hotels plc recognises its responsibility to respect the environment and will strive to achieve environmental best practice throughout its business activity.

We believe that everyone has a duty of care for the environment and to seek ways to conserve natural resources. We are conscious of environmental issues and we believe that the pursuit of economic growth can be linked to ecological protection. This is a collective issue which is the responsibility of government, business and the community at large. In pursuit of our business goals, we will seek to minimise the wastage of raw materials and energy, and to minimise harmful emissions resulting from our activities. We will apply all relevant legislation concerning the environment and will actively co-operate with the authorities on environmental protection matters. Where regulations do not exist we may set our own standards of environmental performance. To this end we will conduct internal environmental reviews and annually assess our progress towards an improved environmental performance. We will inform our suppliers and contractors of our environmental policies to ensure that the goods and services they provide meet our environmental objectives.

Our customers and guests will be made aware of our initiatives and we will encourage them to help us achieve our environmental goals.

Our employees will be provided with the information, instruction and training necessary to fulfil the requirements of the policy.

All Regional Operations Control Managers and hotel General Managers will implement this policy and report annually on its progress. The policy will be monitored to ensure it is effective and will be reguarly reviewed and revised as necessary.

September 2005
Peter Kirschner, Director of Operations
Corus hotels