Responsible Tourism
Initiatives

Name: Royal St. Andrews Hotel
Address: 19 St. Andrews Road, Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, 6170, ZA
Telephone: +27(0)46 604 5400

The Royal St Andrews Hotel is a proud beacon of
Responsible Tourism

As a proudly local establishment in the heart of the Sunshine Coast, we take great pride in our commitment to the community and our environment.

In small ways we can make the world a better place.

Minimizing Negative Impacts on the Environment

With our state-of-the-art inverter room, 500 panel Solar Plant and 3 onsite EV chargers, we are committed to conserving energy. Furthermore, the electricity usage in all our rooms is controlled by ESU's (Energy Saving Units), that work with a magnetic strip card.

Similarly, we conserve water through our 220 000-litre capapcity, onsite Reverse Osmosis water plant, micro irrigation sustem and water saving.

The original Tudor Style Hotel (Built in 1924), is now a Heritage Site and has been preserved during the renovation process.

Maximizing Positive Contributions

We fully support our local economy sourcing products and services locally as far as possible.

The Hotel is involved with various local NPO's including NEMATO Change a Life, Mzansi Rugby Academy and Sunshine Life Centre.

We are super proud of our Staff who has adopted the spirit of giving back by organizing, funding and executing their own events in the community, which allows them to "pay it forward" as the feel blessed and privledged to be employed by the Royal St Andrews.

We also support local business, schools and organizations like SPCA in the form of various sponsorships.

Maximizing Positive Contributions, Continued:

The Hotel is the driving force behind the Port Alfred Easter Festival by providing the town with free marketing platforms to promote all Easter Weekend sporting events and festivals. The Hotel is the main sponsor behind two of the country's biggest surfing events hosted by Surfing SA and RipCurl ove 5 Days and also a big music festival that sees some of South Africa's best and biggest bands coming to Port Alfred. All these events result in vast increase in occupancies accross all hospitality establishments in Port Alfred.

Shared Responsibility

The Hotel plays a leading role, in partnership with the Sunshine Coast Tourism Board, in doing destination marketing for the entire Sunshine Coast. Destination marketing, and not just marketing for the Hotel, is crucial in the long-term sustainability of the Hotel and Tourism along the Sunshine Coast.

We ensure that there are communnicational materials in all rooms and public spaces, providing information to all our Guests about local activities, ensuring that many service providers in town benefit from tourists.

Ethical Responsibility

Royal St Andrews Hotel is quite probably the only - or at least one of the very few - Hotel in the area where all permnent staff receives a full basic salary each month (and are not hourly paid). The salary is also above minimum wage. We are proud to say that also offer our staff a provident fund scheme, of which the company contributes 50%. It is extremely important to us that our staff is well looked after, is prioritized and valued.