good conscience

We proudly buy from local producers and businesses as much as possible. We continuously are on the lookout for unique, small and family businesses as our suppliers. Well over 50% of our business partners are small businesses run by women.

Construction and travel are wasteful. Few resorts want to talk about construction emissions. From healthy wood constructions, modular buildings, plastic free concepts and local contractors, we tried. Operationally, all our electricity comes from renewable energy contracts.

Why “ish”? We believe small changes will make significant progress. Livestock is one of the largest polluters, which is why Hilltop Forest is vegetarian and largely vegan (but we can’t help ourselves to some cheese). We use local produce where possible and compost our food waste on site.

We have seen too many hotels and resorts call themselves carbon neutral because of the size of land/forest they sit on or because of the carbon emissions they offset (financially). Many also overlook their construction emissions which can account for more than 70% in some cases!

Hilltop Forest’s 16 hectares of land far offsets the carbon footprint of our resort, and would make for lovely green-marketing. But to be honest, the forest was here far before us and our initiatives for a better planet needs to be greater than hiding behind carbon emission calculators.

We call for all businesses to focus on concrete green steps instead of greenwashed numbers!

Hilltop Forest is a proud and loud member of ‘We Speak Gay’ & ‘Gay Travel Finland’ communities.

We hope we would not need to have this section on our website still in 2023 but, sadly, safety and the feeling of inclusion is not given for all. Did you know, still today in Finland, 92% of the LGBTQ+ community does not feel like they can be open about themselves in their workplace.

But let’s be clear where we stand; love is love. Whether you are gay, straight, bi, trans or anything else in between or beyond; you are warmly welcomed at Hilltop Forest.

We donate 1% of our accommodation revenue to environmental charities and 1% of our food & drink revenue to global hunger charities.

For transparency we promise to tell you (on instagram) where the donations have been made.

A tiny gesture in financial terms but an important stand for the responsibility we believe all businesses have towards the wellbeing of our planet.