HONOLULU—As ocean temperatures reach record highs and coral bleaching events accelerate globally, OUTRIGGER Resorts & Hotels is mobilizing its full network of resort communities for World Ocean Month—activating guests, hosts, students and conservation scientists across five countries in what represents the company’s most coordinated environmental effort to date.
Coinciding with this activation, OUTRIGGER is releasing its inaugural Sustainability Report, incorporating “The OUTRIGGER Way”—the company’s integrated approach to environmental stewardship, community wellbeing and long-term responsible growth across Hawaii, Fiji, Thailand, Mauritius and the Maldives.
“The ocean doesn’t recognize borders and neither does our commitment to protecting it,” said Sean Dee, Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer. “World Ocean Month is a reflection of the relationships we have built with marine scientists, Indigenous cultural practitioners, students and fishing communities across every destination where we operate. The Sustainability Report is our public accountability for that work.”
All Properties Now Operate Water Refill Stations
The report documents meaningful operational progress: 100 percent of hosts completed human trafficking awareness training in 2025; 94 percent of properties have transitioned to bulk guestroom amenities; and all properties now operate water refill stations to reduce single-use plastics. Across Thailand alone, World Ocean Month 2026 programming includes the planting of 3,000 mangrove trees, 24,000 seagrass plants and the release of 10,000 prawns to restore native marine populations.
At the center of OUTRIGGER’s environmental strategy is OUTRIGGER Zone, the company’s global conservation platform operating across all five destination countries. Through OUTRIGGER Zone, the company has expanded coral reef restoration efforts, supported mangrove planting and native tree restoration and launched a Sculptural Coral Gene Bank with Counting Coral—a first-of-its-kind resilience initiative—now housing 464 coral fragments hand-selected by marine scientists for their genetic resilience to warming ocean temperatures. Unlike one-off corporate sustainability gestures, OUTRIGGER Zone provides the operational infrastructure: resident marine biologists, conservation partnerships, host training and guest programming that makes these activations scientifically grounded and annually renewable.
“Reefs aren’t restored in a season, and they’re not restored by a single gesture,” says Brooke True, the Executive Director at Counting Coral. “OUTRIGGER and Castaway have joined us, wanting the same thing we do: sustainable, lasting restoration for their island. Together we’ve installed our Sculptural Coral Gene Bank, designed to hold genetically diverse and resilient parent corals for generations, to be followed by coral nurseries and a seamless system of propagation. As the pressure on our oceans keeps climbing, we value our shared, long-term thinking. We’re here to minimize what we take and maximize what we give back.”
Throughout June, OUTRIGGER Zone will activate more than 40 programming moments across five countries, mobilizing guests, hosts, marine scientists and local communities in coral restoration, mangrove reforestation, cultural ocean education and marine species recovery.
Learn more at www.outrigger.com/sustainability.
