EarthCheck certified Alila Seminyak resort in Bali

The island of Bali in Indonesia is a very popular tourist destination, often associated with sustainable, attentive tourism. Not surprisingly, Alila's most recent and fifth resort in Bali, Alila Seminyak has been certified to the EarthCheck environmental benchmark standard.



LYou'll find a possible solution to the eternal dilemma of how to have an environmentally-aware holiday and worrying about your carbon footprint at the Alila Seminyak resort in Bali, Indonesia, where sustainable solutions are combined with a corner of paradise.





Designed by Gaurang Khemka from Singapore-based studio URBNarc, the Alila Seminyak resort on the beachfront of the western coastline of Bali is a fusion of contemporary architecture, vertical gardens, large plants, green roofs and terraces. Not just a question of style, but habit, given that sustainability to protect the environment as a real tourist value has always been one of Alila's guidelines (link Alila Vilas Uluwatu).



At Seminyak, the sustainable design options also include the use of local, recyclable materials, energy-efficient lighting, harvesting of rainwater and drinking water that is bottled directly in the resort to avoid transport and pollution. 





Design options that earned the Alila Seminyak resort the prestigious EarthCheck certification, an environmental benchmark standard created by an international scientific group which has been classifying the tourist industry since 1987, following the rationale that anything that's good for the planet is good for business too. 



The even better thing is that the resort's sustainability is not just limited to the environment, it is also extended to the social aspects with equal pay, support for two local primary schools, and social assistance for the nearby Anak-Anak Children’s Home.

Christiane Bürklein

Project: Studio URBNarc
Location: Bali, Indonesia
Year: 2015
Photographs: courtesy of Alila Hotels 
Link: http://www.alilahotels.com/seminyak/