World TB Day

For the fourth consecutive year, Kempinski Hotels (72 hotels in total) celebrated World TB Day in its properties across Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa.

Hotels are places where people are very mobile: our guests travel from and to different destinations and our employees move between hotels from one continent to another. Anyone can carry infectious diseases, also without knowing it.  Health is without a doubt a shared value between our company and society, particularly in countries where TB is a high burden. For that reason, Kempinski feels responsible for its guests and employees’ health and committed to fight against tuberculosis by becoming an active partner of the Stop TB Partnership in 2008.

To mark the World TB Day, Kempinski hotels’ executive teams served food to staff members at staff canteens, while distributing informative flyers about tuberculosis. Hotel staff were given specifically designed in-house training sessions about tuberculosis, held by either the hotels’ training managers, or in-house doctors or nurses.

Quite a number of hotels organised original events for their staff to mark the day. A bowling tournament was set up in the Çiragan Palace in Istanbul, while staff in Kempinski Hotel River Park Bratislava organised soccer and volleyball competitions. Kempinski Hotel Zografski organised a football tournament, including six teams from other hotels, to raise funds for the University children clinic for lung diseases in Sofia. Hotel Adlon Kempinski ensured TB awareness at the Brandenburg gate.

Hotel Indonesia Kempinski Jakarta held a Health Seminar in Rumag Susun supported by doctors and specialists, and led by Rico Ceper, a well-known Indonesian radio and TV presenter. More than 120 people attended the seminar.

Kempinski Hotel Huizhou in China organised a mountain climbing activity for their staff and distributed on their way to the top flyers to citizens in order to raise awareness about TB.

To celebrate World TB Day in a different way, Kempinski Hotel Mall of the Emirates organised a fund collection amongst their staff to support the Stop TB Partnership ().

Kempinski Hotel Dukes’ Palace in Bruges mobilised their guests to donate 1 Euro per night to the Stop TB Partnership.

Change knowledge, educate on and de-stigmatise tuberculosis amongst staff worldwide as well as raise awareness in employees’ local community was the heart of this year’s campaign. We are proud that our hotels showed that TB communication campaigns can be both inspired and powerful.