DISCOVERY KARTIKA PLAZA HOTEL & VILLAS
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABLE POLICY 2006/2007

We are aware that our business in the hospitality industry has a close relation with the nature and culture. We strongly believe that if the nature and culture are not well managed and sustained it will lead to the vanishing of our industry. Our business plays an important role and has a great interest in conserving and sustaining the nature and culture. It is paramount to protect and enhance the nature and culture for our future generation and to contribute to the sustainable tourism development.

Below are the Discovery Kartika Plaza Hotel & Villas Bali commitments toward environment and cultural in order to sustain tourism development:

1. Undertake environmentally practices across the entire operation.
2. Commit to continual improvement and comply fully with the relevant local and national legislation and also to the international best practices for Sustainable Tourism.
3. Undertake all actions necessary to minimize the impact to the environment and to minimize the waste of energy, water, materials such as paper, and non-biodegradable chemicals through awareness program and internal management policies.
4. Do best practice to minimize solid waste and waste water, to reduce, re-use, and re-cycle wherever possible at all levels of operations.
5. Minimize air and other pollutions in daily operations including noise by installing pollutions prevention mechanism and treatments.
6. Ensure that all goods purchased are environmentally friendly and have recyclable and degradable containers whenever possible.
7. Commit to provide priority to use local products and services including to employ persons living in nearby communities.
8. Provide all employees with training and resources required to meet our environmental objectives.
9. Encourage employee to continue conducting and spreading out environmental friendly practices in their family homes and their local community.
10. Openly communicate our policies to interested parties and all stakeholders.
11. Encourage our customers, suppliers, contractors and stakeholders to participate through-out environmentally and socially responsible actions.
12. Work together with others in the tourism industries, public agencies and the communities to spread out the sustainable environment goals.
13. Monitor and record environment programs regularly and compare our performance against our policies, objectives, and targets requirement for Green Globe 21 and Tri Hita Karana Tourism benchmarks.
14. Set annual target for each relevant Green Globe 21 sustainability performance indicators to make appropriate yearly basis improvements benchmarking.
15. Follow the concept of living in harmony (Tri Hita Karana) whenever applicable in the management system.
16. Review this Environmental and Sustainability Policy annually and update when necessary with any changes in legislation, hotel policies and Green Globe 21 policies.
17. Improve the grade from B to A achievement in Tri Hita Karana environmental Tourism Award.

In Discovery Kartika Plaza Hotel & Villas Bali Management and Environmental Team are committed to implement this policy accordingly.

Kuta, February 2007