Fabrice Moizan, General Manager of Hotel Fouquet's Barriere in Paris, was awarded the prize by the European Hotel Managers Association.
The Sustainability Award in its third edition was given to a consistent and long term innovative project which involves the reforestation of 40 hectares by means of fund raising and cooperation with the local community and other industry stakeholders. Fabrice Moizan succeeded in building up a strong team spirit within his hotel staff members thus distinguishing himself for commitment and leadership qualities.
The criteria of the EHMA Sustainability Award by Diversey Care were perfectly met: they are meant to make the most of hospitality professionals’ initiative and courage in an economically sustainable business. The nomination was announced on occasion of the last EHMA General Meeting which took place in Monaco. The meeting title itself was “Hospitality, Sustainability… what’s next?”.
The winning reforestation project, the Hotel Fouquet’s Barriere Grape Harvest, started in 2009 in cooperation with wine grower Marie-Laure Lurton and the Municipality of Gabardon. They partnered up around a charitable and sustainable project: the idea consisted in harvesting grapes, put the harvest up for auction and use all the proceeds to help replanting 40 hectares of forest in the Landes Department of France as well as research into biodiversity.
The activity still goes on and involves every year, in the month of September, the Hotel Fouquet’s Barriere staff members. They work closely with Marie-Laure Lurton and her wine grower team to harvest grapes on the estate which is endorsed by Terra Vitis, an important French eco-friendly association of wine growers and wine makers. In the reception of the Hotel Fouquet’s Barriere then, during the following spring, the result of the harvest is auctioned and the relevant proceeds are donated to finance the award winning sustainable development program.
Training programs on forestry and its future outlook are also organized.
Diversey Care, the EHMA Sustainability Award sponsor, specializes in the supply of sustainable and innovative cleaning and hygiene solutions, EHMA and Diversey Care together mean to improve and award the concept of sustainability by means of forward-looking plans and out-of-the box approach which facilitate the perfect matching of sustainability with bottom line accounting, security, risk management and corporate responsibility issues, actually related to the triadic concept of People-Profit-Planet.
Fabrice Moizan was appointed General Manager at Fouquet’s Barriere in 2010. In his past experience he supervised the opening of Radisson Blu Monastir Resort, Thalasso & Spa, in Tunisia and held hospitality professional top positions: Food & Beverage Manager, Incoming Sales Manager, Deputy Manager and Director of Operations at Hotel Normandy Barriere, Royal Barriere and du Golf Barriere in Deauville.
Since the beginning of his career at the Hotel Fouquet’s Barriere in Paris, Fabrice Moizan has been deeply personally involved in the winning project, in fact he has participated with his staff 4 harvesting editions from the start, in the vineyards, to the auction supervision in the hotel premises. A great experience which, in his opinion “would never have been possible” without the strong team spirit he was able to build up with 400 hotel employees.
Many outstanding personalities convened to the Award ceremony in Monaco. The sponsor was represented by Dr. Ilham Kadri, President of the Diversey Care Division, vice president and officer at Sealed Air Corp. global leader in food care and packaging, facility hygiene and product protection. She stated that by now sustainability is the new ‘quality index’ within the hospitality industry: “The either “green” or profitable bottom line” dilemma is disappearing –we can have both. Diversey Care is committed to using its knowledge and expertise to identify the best solutions for the hospitality industry…”.
Other Award finalists really deserve to be mentioned for their outstanding projects:
- Serge Ethuin, General Manager of Rome Cavalieri Waldorf Astoria, Italy, that became the first hotel in Italy to implement in 2010 the system of “White Certificates” related to energy efficiency measures and developed a project to save energy through a complex incentive system promoted by the Government.
- Robert Herr, General Manager of InterContinental Berlin, Germany, raised exceptional achievements in the reduction of environmental energy impact by means of a new Combined Heat and Power System which besides costs savings entailed a strong reduction of CO2 emissions.
- Emmanuel Sydney Manousos, General Manager of Apollonia Beach Hotel, Crete, Greece, for over a decade the hotel has been involved in an environment protection and hotel customer sensitization on sustainability.
- Friedrich Niemann, General Manager of Hilton Frankfurt, Germany, contributed to energy costs saving, UV-A and UV-B rays and heat reduction thanks to the installation of a Sun Protection Foil on the hotel building.
- Palmiro Noschese, Melia Hotels International, Italy Area Manager attended to a project for the training and access to job of six young people affected by Down Syndrome in cooperation with AIDP (Italian Association of Down Persons).
- Patrick Recasens, General Manager of Pullman Timi Ama in Villasimius, Italy, in support of WWF’S biodiversity conservation concept invited clients to make a free donation, in exchange they got a free entrance to one of the Italian WWF Oases.
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