To take care of the world
as we take care of our guests through responsible procurement

The Hospitality Alliance for Responsible Procurement (HARP) is an EcoVadis-powered sector initiative created by a group of hospitality companies and their key global procurement organizations. Each HARP member is committed to accelerating positive impact across the industry by improving the sustainability performance of hospitality suppliers and strengthening actions to support environmental, human and ethical practices over time.

Members benefits

HARP members engage suppliers in their sustainability rating and improvement journey as a peer group. Participating in this process offers various benefits, such as:

  • Strengthen supplier outreach resulting in an increased coverage of the assessed supply base (higher supplier participation)
  • Expand visibility of the broader hospitality industry’s supply chain sustainability performance allowing more informed decisions
  • Enhance synergies in driving improvement with suppliers and third parties
  • Directly engage with industry peers and influential external stakeholders without infringing antitrust regulations

Supplier benefits

If you have received a sustainability assessment request on behalf of HARP, you are considered as a trading partner for at least one member of this Initiative. Engaging in this process offers various benefits, such as:

  • Increase efficiency through sharing your scorecard with many customers at once
  • Gain visibility of industry leaders’ commitment to go beyond compliance and drive sustainability efforts in partnership with trading partners like yourself
  • Strengthen long-term customer relationships and valuable information about your positioning in all aspects of sustainability
  • Accelerate improvement via access to focused capacity building and improvement activities

Within our initiative, companies can:

Capitalize on synergies
Learn and adopt best practices
Reduce workload and avoid redundant, manual SAQs, etc.
Mitigation of duplication of effort (multiple, manual SAQs)
Concentrate on industry-specific criteria
Improve recognition and collaboration
Acceleration of their sustainability journey

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Become a member

HARP membership is open to hospitality companies that are committed to sustainability and fulfill the HARP membership requirements. As part of the application process, each applicant must present their case to the HARP Steering Committee. There are two application slots per year.

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