The Van der Valk Hotel Rotterdam-Blijdorp regards the highest possible consideration of the environment as one of its most important objectives. The controlling of the environmental load and the restriction of the environmental risks are a primary responsibility of both the management and each staff member of the Van der Valk Hotel Rotterdam-Blijdorp.

The care for the environment will be a structural part of and closely connected to the other company objectives. All staff members are obliged to carry out their work in accordance with the stipulated procedures and with the related comapny's policy and to consider this as a self-evident way of acting. 

The policy of the Van der Valk Hotel Rotterdam-Blijdorp includes providing services that comply with and respond to the expectations of the visitors. The operational management should be carried out in such a manner, that it protects the environment and guarantees the safety and health of its staff members, visitors, suppliers and the public.

In order to realise this policy the Van der Valk Hotel Rotterdam-Blijdorp complies with the following rules: 
- Acknowleding the importance of the environment in terms of corporate and commercial matters - act in line with the laws and regulatiosn regarding environmental concerns.
- training and instructing each staff member, hold him or her responsible with regard to the compliance with the policy and enabling each staff member to remove obstacles for the continious improvement of the environmental accomplishments - Measuring the environmental progress by means of monitoring.  

Finally our company's objective, as result from the policy, includes minimising the production of waste and restricting a negative effect on the air, the water and the soil as a result of the implementation of the operational management, by means of an effective environmental care system.

Management                                                                                              mr. M. Brakman