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KOLKATA | 5 JUNE 2026
Responsible Luxury is a phrase that could easily belong to a brochure. At ITC Hotels Limited, it is the operating principle that has shaped every infrastructure decision, every energy choice and every sustainability milestone the brand has quietly been accumulating for years.
The commitment runs deeper than intention. Across its portfolio, ITC Hotels has systematically moved away from fossil fuels, embedding electrification and renewable aligned energy solutions into kitchen operations, laundries, boilers and hot water systems. Sustainability was not retrofitted into these spaces. It was designed into them from the ground up, integrated into every asset upgrade and new development as a non-negotiable part of how the brand builds and operates.
This World Environment Day, that distinction carries particular weight. ITC Hotels holds 23 LEED Platinum certifications, the highest achieved by any hotel chain globally, alongside 12 LEED Zero Carbon and 13 LEED Zero Water certified properties. Multiple hotels in the portfolio today operate majorly on renewable energy, a standard of environmental performance that no other hospitality group in India, and very few globally, has been able to replicate.
What distinguishes ITC Hotels is not just the scale of these achievements but the philosophy behind them. Where sustainability has often been treated as a communications exercise across the industry, ITC Hotels has embedded it as an operational one, making resilience, efficiency and lower carbon performance structural qualities of the business rather than seasonal talking points.
The recognition has followed, with the brand being named World’s Leading Sustainable Organisation 2025 at the World Sustainable Travel and Hospitality Awards and receiving the USGBC Leadership Award 2024, acknowledgements that reflects not a single initiative but years of disciplined, consistent execution at scale.
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