FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY—Deutsche Hospitality, as part of its group-wide sustainability strategy, will ensure that all eggs and egg products used in its European hotels are sourced from barn hens by the end of 2019. This will be a minimum requirement. The new regulation will apply to all Deutsche Hospitality’s brands and hotels regardless of the type of contractual arrangements that are in place. The regulation excludes all forms of cage keeping and applies to hotels that reopen. Deutsche Hospitality will become the first European hotel chain to have introduced such a changeover in Europe by the end of the present year.
All Deutsche Hospitality brands and hotels will have made the global switch to cage-free eggs and egg products by 2025. This global policy also excludes any form of cage rearing and will apply to all new hotels opened.
Higher standards already apply in many hotels thanks to the initiative shown by the responsible staff locally. All hotels in Austria, for example, only source their eggs from producers with standards of animal welfare above barn egg farming.
This represents an important step within the sustainability strategy adopted by Deutsche Hospitality as an umbrella brand as the group seeks to bring about positive ecological change at an international level. A further and wider objective is to help encourage the responsible consumption of foodstuffs.
