Kinan Al Ghraoui, General Manager, Villa Rotana Dubai was awarded the Hotelier Middle East CSR Champion Award by the leading Hospitality Magazine Hotelier Middle East.
Mr. Kinan was the backbone in launching practices to manage negative environmental impacts across the operation in the areas of energy, waste and water; Community's contribution and engagement activities; Guests involvement in hotels activities, initiatives encouraging Environmental, social and economic sustainability across Villa Rotana and Rihab Rotana.
This hotels initiative, a first-of-its-kind humanitarian project initiated in the UAE in 2009, was launched with an aim to open the door to specialized training of special needs students from Rashid Centre. Each year, the project receives students in each of the three hotels, to receive six to eight months of training under the supervision of human resource department of the hotels.
