Jaya House Hotels: How Can Luxury Hotels be Sustainable?

For the hotel industry, sustainable operations is a growing priority, with more than 5,000 properties adopting the World Travel & Tourism Council’s Hotel Sustainability Basics.

Jaya House Hotels aims to embed sustainable practices into its business model, with tree planting initiatives and plastic free operations.

Plastic-free tourism

The Jaya House River Park hotel, located in Siem Reap, Cambodia, is a luxury hotel focused on sustainable operations.

The company is a signatory of the Global Tourism Plastic Initiative, led by the UN Environment Programme and the World Tourism Organisation.

The Jaya House River Park hotel has been single-use plastic free since December 2016 and its leaders are aiming to support other hotels on their journey towards becoming plastic free.

This initiative aims to tackle plastic pollution by promoting a shift towards a circular economy of plastics in tourism operations, where plastics never become waste, instead of completely eliminating them.

The hotel company has launched its own range of skincare and body products, called Jaya Organics.

These are packaged in glass containers, in order to reduce packaging waste, with the company aiming to set up an option for customers to refill their empty containers.

The products are made in-house to reduce costs and environmental impact, while cutting overseas transportation pollution.

All of the ingredients used are locally sourced and natural extracts are added to enhance the quality and luxury feel of the products.

Dennis Reinhard, Co-Founder of Jaya Organics, says: “There are a lot of beauty products that we use every day and after a short time, you throw it away which is a huge waste.

“Imagine how much waste we create in a year.

“Following in Jaya River Park’s footsteps, we wanted to do something that was environmentally friendly.”

Christian de Boer, Jaya House Hotels’s Managing Director, will be speaking at Sustainability LIVE: The Net Zero Summit in March 2026.

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Who manages Jaya House Hotels?

The Managing Director of Jaya House Hotels is Christian de Boer, who runs the Jaya House River Park hotel.

For his career so far, he has worked in hospitality around the world, working in management roles at hotels in France, Vietnam, Singapore and Cambodia.

As Advisor to the United Nations, he has spoken at major global forums including the United Nations General Assembly in New York and the Plastic Smart Cities seminar with WWF UN, where he shared actionable insights grounded in his decades of industry experience.

Christian’s commitment to system changing solutions is exemplified by his Refill not Landfill initiative which he launched in 2016.

Since its inception, the campaign has saved more than 500,000 plastic bottles as well as large amounts of other SUP materials from oceans and landfills.

It has now expanded into 19 destinations worldwide, showing how a simple behavioural shift can be scaled to create monumental environmental impact.

Christian regularly publishes guidance, insights and frameworks aimed at helping destinations and businesses accelerate their transition away from harmful materials and towards future proof models of tourism.

Christian said on LinkedIn: “Hotels and resorts are uniquely positioned to lead climate action through operational innovation, community engagement and regenerative business models.

“We’re here to show how hospitality can go beyond reducing harm – to creating positive change.”

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Net Zero Travel & Tourism at The Net Zero Summit

Christian de Boer will be speaking at The Net Zero Travel & Tourism Summit at Sustainability LIVE: The Net Zero Summit.

This industry forum will bring together experts to discuss strategies for greener operations, sustainable practices and ways to build resilience into business models.

Christian will share insights on reducing carbon emissions, becoming plastic free and embedding responsibility into long-term sector strategies.

Christian says: “I’m looking forward to speaking at Sustainability LIVE: The Net Zero Summit because it brings together people who are ready to move beyond intention and into action. 

“Real change happens when practical, scalable solutions are shared openly, and this event is a powerful platform to accelerate that shift toward truly sustainable systems.”

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