About Hotels for Trees
Hotels for Trees is a non profit foundation established in May 2021. Hotels for Trees started in the Netherlands and has rapidly expanded in Europe since 2022. A separate entity is estabished in Australia and North America.
ANBI Status, many benefits
Hotels for Trees has a Dutch ANBI status (special charity trademark including tax benefits for people from Europe who donate). Similarly, for Australian and North American partners, the donations are tax-deductible.
The foundation is headed by a board of three and overseen by a Supervisory Board. All donations are spent on (re-)forestation projects and used for running and growing Hotels for Trees.
Floris Licht
Founder
Linde Borger
Chief Tree Planting Officer & Market Manager Europe
Edwin Schaerlaeckens
Tree Planting Officer North America
Duke Imo
Market Manager Germany
Hugo van Roermund
Tree Planting Officer Australia and New Zealand
Jean-Marc Ziadé
Market Manager France and Belgium
How it works
The door hanger
During a stay guests hang the unique Hotels for Trees door hanger outside their room for one or multiple days.
The room is skipped
Housekeeping will note the door hanger, skip cleaning the room, and enter 1 tree into our online portal.
Entry into the system
Once these figures are entered, the total number of trees planted will be displayed on the website for each hotel and each day.
Planting trees
Hotels for Trees invoices the hotels monthly and ensures the corresponding number of trees are planted.
Want to learn more about our collaboration with Mews? View the Hotels for Trees MEWS Operation page which explains the Hotels for Trees integration in MEWS.
Our partners
As an independent non-profit initiative Hotels for Trees is not linked to any specific country, brand, hotel chain, hotel size or star rating. On the contrary, we are extremely proud of our partnership with a large variety of hotels in the Netherlands, Europe, even on the Caribbean Islands and in Australia and North America as well.
