I am pleased to confirm that Oriental Resorts for Touristic Development reaffirms its support of the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact in the areas of Human Rights, Labor, Environment and Anti- Corruption.

In this annual Communication on Progress, we describe our actions to continually improve the integration of the Global Compact and its principles into our business strategy, culture and daily operations. We also commit to sharing this information with our stakeholders using our primary channels of communications.

Also we will point out in this report our new CSR projects with cooperation of universities and foundations.

Sincerely Yours,

Mr. Sherif ElSayed Ibrahim
Chairman

Fighting Child Labor

A very good and clear example of active actions taken toward the concept of protecting human rights in Oriental Resorts is the cancellation of a contractor’s contract that was hiring workers below allowed working age violating the principle of human right of no allowance of children work, as it will be mentioned in more details later in this report.

LABOR
Promotion Plan

Oriental Resorts apply annually its promotion plan and upon the request of employees, a work load measurement meeting is conducted by the Human Recourses department to measure the new tasks assigned to the staff and based on the appropriate recommendation is communicated to the Managing Director to take the necessary decision of promoting the selected staff.

Employees’ Health Care

As per Oriental Resorts last Communication on Progress Report, a new service provider is contracted which increased the coverage age of the insured members and provided a wider service providers network to facilitate more reaching the service for all medically insured employees and their families and the insurance covering two family members of each employees is still applied.

In addition to the previous implemented activities that are still in progress such as:

• Oriental Resort Hotel Committee of Trustees

• Monthly recreational programs for hotel staff

• Freedom of workers to volunteer at any voluntary local community services

Exit Plan

Planning an exit strategy is the most commonly overlooked consideration of a business strategy, yet the exit strategy plays a key role in determining the strategic direction for the company. Good employees are hard to find and just as hard to keep. And while turnover is a natural phenomenon in every workplace, dealing with an unexpected employee exit effectively makes all the difference to all parties concerned.

Comply with minimum wage standards

Salary Surveys provide the necessary market data to build competitive pay structures for our organization and provide us with the information needed to ensure that packages offered by Oriental Resorts are competitive.

Highlights of other initiatives in progress covering Labour principle:

• Employees Development and Training
• Social Insurance plan

The hotel is one of the GS Certified Hotels in Sharm El Sheikh with 3 stars.
The “Green Star Hotel” Program – Egypt’s Green Certification Program in support of Sustainable Tourism
The Green Star Hotel (GSH) is a national green certification and capacity-building program managed by the Egyptian Hotel Association (EHA) under the patronage of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism. The GSH program offers an opportunity for hotels operating in Egypt to be internationally recognized for raising their environmental performance and social standards while reducing their operational costs

In the process to build a solar system plant in the hotel with the corporation of TAQA Power Company which will reduce the hotel annual consumption of electricity by 20%.
LED Lamps instead of normal lamps

Currently Oriental resort hotel is replacing the indoors normal lamps with LED lamps for saving more amounts of energy consumption and the same is planned to goes on with the landscape as well.

New Irrigation System Using “Sprinklers”

Oriental Resort hotel is planning to replace the normal irrigation system through the usual water hoses by new “Sprinklers” system to be surrounding the whole landscape for saving water consumption.

Advanced Water Tabs and Showers

In 2014 it is planned for Oriental hotel to Implement new flushes technique that will consume lesser amounts of water in all rooms’ bathrooms in addition to installing new beach showers that use advanced push technique that produces certain amounts of water each time in order to achieve less water consumption.

Oriental Resorts attended regularly the events and conferences organized by the Egyptian Junior Business Association (EJB) in collaboration with the UN Global Compact as part of the Siemens Integrity Initiative in which multiple top notched different speakers are invited each time to enhance the conference with the experience regarding the role of the private sector in fighting corruption. Additionally, Oriental Resorts is planning to be a member of the Integrity Network that is going to be formed by EJB.