Riu Sri Lanka, the all-inclusive resort with 501 rooms, recently held a tree planting and beach cleaning programme as part of its social and community responsible activities. The resort is ambitious and confident to actively take part in a number of similar initiatives in the future.
The hotel planted many king-coconut trees along the shore with the participation of government officials, staff and locals. Planting trees undoubtedly produce clean air, reduce carbon, and provide shelter to birds and other wildlife.
The hotel also recently spent a whole day together with its staff in a beach cleaning activity with unlimited food and beverage spread out on the shore, and surprisingly many of their guests too volunteered for this worthy cause. Tons and tons of rubbish, especially, plastic find its way into the world’s oceans every year and is causing a significant threat to marine life and sea birds. Riu Sri Lanka managed to collect a total of around 126kgs of trash on that day with plastic accounting to over 30kgs.