Environmentally Friendly Hotel Operation
Since 2004, through the German Management of Oliver Esser Soe Thet, the Bagan Hotel River View, old Bagan is fully committed
to promote, educate and actively support an environmentally
friendly hotel operation and a sustainable environmentally friendly
Tourism in Myanmar. Certain projects are in place to reduce
garbage, such as dispenser systems in all Deluxe Room bathrooms.
Plastic bags are not used anymore in any room for garbage collection
or for Laundry Service. The Bagan Hotel staff take active part
on collective activities to preserve Old Bagan as a garbage
free zone.
Recycling
Items of plastic, aluminium, tin and other materials, that are
consumed within the hotel are collected by the staff, and are
either sold in the local market or directly recycled for re-use.
The purchasing of products at Bagan Hotel promotes and gives
priority to recyclable products and to others with packaging
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Bio Filter - Waste Water Treatment System
A Bio Filter Waste Water Treatment System was installed
in 2004 for all Suite Rooms to treat all waste water in an
environmentally friendly way using a Biological Trickling
Filter, which is a bed of permeable media which contains bacteria.
Waste water is trickled through the bed, and organic material
from the liquid is absorbed into a biological film called
Bioslime, which is attached to the media. The bacteria present
within the bioslime degrade the organic material.
Advantages of the Bio Filter are:
- Small installation
- Effluent quality to WHO standard
- Effluent is safe for discharge or irrigation re-use
- Odour free and noiseless
- Low power consumption
- Fail safe
A bigger Bio Filter system is just now in
planning to upgrade the entire Bagan Hotel River View with
such an environmental friendly system. The Bagan Hotel plays
a leading role in nature preservation in Myanmar.
The budget has already been estimated and it is expected to be approved soon by Bagan Hotel owning family.
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Environmental Progress & Success in Myanmar
Click below to read some of the environmental stories connecting
with the Bagan Hotel River View's German management by Oliver Esser Soe Thet since 1995 in Myanmar (Yangon, Ngapali Beach , Ngwe Saung Beach and since 2004 in Bagan).
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Solar Power
A solar powered hot water system is planned by GM Oliver Esser Soe Thet and in process for
all rooms at Bagan Hotel to save energy here in Bagan Region,
where we are supplied with over 340 days of sunshine a year.
Tree Planting for a Green Zone
Bagan Hotel River View have 10 years ago
planted over 100 Star Trees as a small forest around the whole
hotel compound, which can be seen on the southern side, just
between the Museum and the Ayeyarwaddy River. Annually hundreds
of new trees are planted to help in a small scale to create
the Bagan Region again as a Green Zone of Upper Myanmar. Oliver E Soe Thet arranged with Dr Win Maung (UK) that The Bagan Hotel supports the “OTOT“, One Tourist
– One Tree international activity for the Bagan
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Off the Menu:
Endangered Species
As an initiative by the President of Myanmar Chefs Association – Oliver E Soe Thet in 1999, the Chefs at Bagan
Hotel also object to the use of endangered species on the Bagan Hotel Menu or to be cooked in its kitchens,
such as turtle meat or turtle eggs, shark fin soup, baby lobster
or mother lobster, and any others to support regeneration.
The chefs follow a commitment made by the Myanmar Chefs Association
to protect endangered species in Myanmar.
Chefs at the Bagan Hotel River View, do not use
" Monosodium – Glutamate", we are cooking
only the Natural and Healthy way for you.
Chefs at the Bagan Hotel River View, do not use " Monosodium – Glutamate", we are cooking only the Natural and Healthy way for you.
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Under the management of Oliver Esser Soe Thet,
The Bagan Hotel River View strongly believes in Through
Tourism against Poverty and welcomes everyone to join this global movement.
We need you, the tourists, to come as many times as possible and
visit the people of Myanmar,
observe with a fair eye the positive developments in
Myanmar's Tourism Industry, come take pictures and show to your friends.
Welcome to Myanmar to seek the truth
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| Education for
Young Myanmar
Since 1999, the Educational and Vocational support to Myanmar People was arranged and coordinated by Oliver E Soe Thet and Mrs Khin Khet Khet Khaing, where many of their friends and first Tourists, after some years of guidance established their own and well supporting Micro NGOs for a 100% benefit to Myanmar's People through Tourism.
Several times a year, the Bagan Hotel sponsors foreign teachers (Prof. Victor Buga from USA and Mrs. Reichenberger from Germany) for vocational training, and foreign language classes in English,
German, Spanish as well as basic computer skills, International
Cooking for people of Bagan's Tourism Industry. All courses
and educational materials are provided free of charge to students.
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A Smile for
Life: Free Cleft Lips & Pallat and Menegoncelis Operations
Since 1996, Dr. Heinz Schoeneich (Germany) and Oliver Esser Soe Thet are working closely together in Myanmar for Myanmar people on many Health Projects, which helped and granted free of charge treatment for over 4000 Myanmar people.
Bagan Hotel River View supports medical treatment through German Interplast Munich as well as through other European
organizations. Operations and treatment are provided free of
charge by Myanmar and European medical specialists.
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Oliver E Soe Thet, the General Manager of Bagan Hotel has actively involved Bagan Hotel as a Member of the Business Association of Myanmar against HIV / AIDS.
We supported as well organized several times a year HIV / AIDS
educational seminars and workshops, to support a clean, healthy
and safe Myanmar Tourism Industry for the future. Bagan Hotel
River View, old Bagan sees its commitment of educational, social
and traditional partnership to the community of Old Bagan and
its region as a priority of our daily work and as a future vision:
to ensure a healthy growth and development of the region and
all its Myanmar people, through sustainable Tourism.
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