Reduce Hotel Costs.
Create Lasting Impact.

Give guests the choice to skip a scheduled room clean. Your hotel saves on housekeeping costs, and a small contribution from that saving funds a tree.

✓ Reduce unnecessary room servicing and laundry costs
✓ Lower water and energy consumption
✓ Create measurable environmental impact

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A SIMPLE IDEA WITH A COMMERCIAL BENEFIT

How Skipping a Room Clean Can Save Money and Support Hotel Sustainability

Every occupied hotel room has a servicing cost.

But many guests staying for several nights don’t necessarily need their room fully serviced every day.

Gift a Tree gives those guests a positive reason to opt out.

They simply hang a card outside their door before housekeeping arrives. One less interim clean can reduce your operating costs — and a small part of that saving can fund a tree.

Your hotel keeps the majority of the saving while your guest becomes part of something positive.

Skip a Clean. Plant a Tree. Save the Difference.
Hotel sustainability programme with a housekeeper placing a Gift a Tree door hanger encouraging guests to skip room cleaning

A Hotel Sustainability Initiative That Pays Its Way

REDUCE COSTS

Reduce unnecessary room servicing and associated operating costs.

SAVE RESOURCES

Use less water, energy and cleaning products while reducing unnecessary laundry.

PLANT TREES

Turn a small proportion of the savings into real tree planting.

ENGAGE GUESTS

Give guests a simple environmental choice they can understand and participate in.

How Much Could Your Hotel Save?

Every hotel is different, but even modest guest participation could create meaningful savings over the course of a year. Here’s a simple illustrative example for a 100-room hotel.

Here is a simple illustrative example for a 100-room hotel.

100

Hotel rooms

75%

Average occupancy

27,375

Occupied nights per year

25%

Illustrative guest participation

At 25% participation, that equates to approximately 6,844 avoided interim room cleans per year.

The Financial Impact

When a guest chooses to skip an unnecessary interim room clean, your hotel avoids many of the costs associated with servicing that room — including housekeeping time and potentially laundry, water, energy and detergent.

YOUR SAVING

100% OF THE SAVING CREATED

From each qualifying skipped room clean

20%

FUNDS THE PROGRAMME

With one tree funded for each qualifying skip

YOU KEEP 80%

OF THE SAVING CREATED

Based on our illustrative saving example

See What That Could Mean for a 100-Room Hotel

Illustrative UK example — use our calculator for your own currency and hotel figures.
Based on the figures above (100 rooms, 75% occupancy, 25% guest participation).

6,844

Potential avoided interim
room cleans per year

X

£5.00

Estimated saving
per skipped clean

=

£34,220

Potential annual
operating saving

After Funding the Trees

6,844 × £1 = £6,844 + vat

Tree-planting contribution
through Gift a Tree

£34,220 − £6,844 =
£27,376
80% SAVING RETAINED BY YOUR HOTEL

The programme contribution is a fixed regional rate per qualifying skipped room clean. The percentage retained will vary according to each hotel's actual saving per clean.

Save First - Fund a Tree - Keep the Difference.

As a simple illustration, where the programme contribution represents around 20% of the estimated saving, approximately 80% remains with the hotel.

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Illustrative example only. Actual savings will vary depending on housekeeping costs, staffing, laundry arrangements, occupancy, guest participation and existing room-servicing policies.

SIMPLE TO INTRODUCE. EASY TO UNDERSTAND

From Guest Choice to Growing Impact

Your guests make a simple voluntary choice. Your hotel reduces an unnecessary operating cost. A small part of the saving funds tree planting — and you gain a positive impact story to share.

1   GUEST CHOOSES
Skip an interim clean or reduce unnecessary towel and linen changes.
↓
2   YOUR HOTEL SAVES
Reduce housekeeping, laundry, water, energy and associated costs.
↓
3   TREES ARE FUNDED
A small part of the saving supports tree planting through Gift a Tree.
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4   SHARE THE IMPACT
Show guests the growing difference they're helping to create.
Gift a Tree hotel sustainability door hanger encouraging guests to skip room cleaning and plant a tree

SIMPLE FOR YOUR HOTEL. SIMPLE FOR YOUR GUESTS.

Front and back of the Gift a Tree hotel room door hanger

One Door Hanger.
One Simple Choice.

There’s no complicated technology and no difficult process for your guests. Simply place a Gift a Tree door hanger in participating rooms.

Guests staying more than one night simply hang it outside their door when they don’t require an interim clean.

Your housekeeping team can identify participating rooms, avoid an unnecessary service and reduce the associated operating cost.

1 GUEST HANGS
THE CARD

"I don't need my room cleaned today."

2 YOUR HOTEL
SAVES

The scheduled interim room service is avoided.

3 A TREE IS
FUNDED

75p of the estimated saving funds a tree through Gift a Tree.

The hotel keeps the majority of the saving.

Your guest gets to make a positive environmental choice.
And together, you create measurable impact.

SIMPLE FOR YOUR HOTEL. SIMPLE FOR YOUR GUESTS.

A Small Decision for Your Guest.
A Bigger Environmental Impact.

Not every guest will want to skip their room clean — and they don’t have to.

Guests can also choose to reuse towels or bed linen when a change isn’t necessary, helping your hotel reduce laundry, water and energy consumption.

That means your programme can encourage several small voluntary choices — all contributing towards lower operating costs and greater environmental impact.

Skip a clean. Reuse a towel. Reduce unnecessary laundry. Every small choice can add up.

Hotel towel re-use card explaining how guests can support tree planting

THE EXAMPLE HOTEL

– Our Environmental Impact –

Together, Our Guests Have Helped Plant

18,427
TREES

Thank you for helping us make a difference.

Every small choice made during your stay can contribute towards a growing environmental impact.

Trees planted in partnership with Gift a Tree

Woman holding a young tree at a Gift a Tree planting project in Tanzania

Your Hotel. Your Guests. Your Impact.

Each participating hotel can have its own branded impact page, giving guests a simple way to see the growing difference they are helping to create. The page can be accessed by QR code from guest rooms and shared through your hotel’s website, social media, newsletters and other communications

QR Code

Easy Guest Access

Live Impact

A growing tree total

Hotel Branding

Your hotel's own impact story

Social Sharing

Something positive to communicate

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Your branded impact page gives guests a simple way to see the growing difference they’re helping to create.

WHY GIFT A TREE?

Why Hotels Choose Gift a Tree

Your hotel shouldn’t have to take on another costly or complicated sustainability programme. Gift a Tree is designed to work alongside your existing housekeeping operation — turning savings you are already making into visible environmental impact.

✓ No joining fee
✓ No monthly subscription
✓ Contribute only after you save
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Real Trees. Real Communities. Real Impact.

Your hotel's trees are planted in the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania - helping to restore forest habitat, support local communities and fight climate change.

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Native tree species

Restoring vital habitat

Supports communities

Creating opportunities

A healthier planet

Capturing CO2

The lasting legacy

Forests for generations

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Download the Hotel Programme Guide

Everything you need to introduce the Gift a Tree hotel programme to your team — how it works, potential savings, guest engagement and the measurable environmental impact your hotel can create.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Your Questions Answered

Everything you need to know about introducing the Gift a Tree hotel programme.

How much does the hotel programme cost?

There is no joining fee and no monthly subscription. For each qualifying skipped room clean through the Gift a Tree programme, your hotel makes the agreed programme contribution, funding one tree. The contribution is designed to represent only a small part of the saving created, allowing your hotel to keep the remainder. Printed guest materials may be charged separately depending on your requirements.

As a simple illustration, if a qualifying skipped room clean saves a hotel £5 and the programme contribution is £1, approximately 80% of that saving remains with the hotel. (This works with any currency). The programme contribution itself is a fixed regional rate rather than a percentage, so the actual proportion retained will depend on each hotel's saving per clean.

No. There is no joining or programme setup fee. We'll create your hotel partnership, branded impact page, unique QR code, partner listing and reporting setup as part of the programme. Printed guest materials, such as personalised door hangers or room cards, may be charged separately depending on quantity and specification.

No. Apart from any separately agreed printed guest materials, there are no upfront or monthly programme charges. Your hotel makes the saving first. At the end of each month, you report the number of qualifying skipped room cleans and we invoice the agreed programme contribution for each one, funding one tree. Your hotel keeps the remainder of the saving.

A room only qualifies when a guest actively chooses to participate in the Gift a Tree programme — for example, by displaying the Gift a Tree door hanger to skip an unnecessary interim clean. Your housekeeping team simply records each qualifying room as part of its normal daily room checks. At the end of the month, the total number of qualifying rooms is reported to Gift a Tree. No guest names or personal information are required. Each recorded room then contributes £1 + VAT to the programme, funding tree planting while allowing your hotel to retain the majority of the estimated saving.

A qualifying skipped room clean is a scheduled room clean that a guest specifically chooses to skip through the Gift a Tree programme. The hotel records that choice through its normal housekeeping process as a Gift a Tree/Green Stay skip.Only room cleans specifically declined through the Gift a Tree programme count towards the hotel's monthly total and tree planting contribution.

No. Guest participation is entirely voluntary. Guests can choose to skip an unnecessary interim room clean or reduce unnecessary towel and linen changes during their stay. Those who prefer their usual housekeeping service can continue to receive it.

Trees funded through the programme are planted through Gift a Tree's tree-planting projects in Tanzania, including the Usambara Mountains. We provide updates, photographs and information that hotels can use to show guests the environmental impact they are helping to create.

We help you introduce and communicate the programme, provide tree-planting information and updates, and create a measurable impact story that can be shared with guests, staff and customers. Participating hotels can also have a dedicated branded impact page showing their growing tree total and the difference their guests are helping to make.

Each participating hotel can have its own branded impact page, giving guests a simple way to see the growing difference they are helping to create. The page can be accessed by QR code from guest rooms and shared through your hotel’s website, social media, newsletters and other communications

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Every participating hotel receives a dedicated, branded impact page showing their live tree total, photos, location and the positive difference they are making.

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