Samode Palace

Responsible/Sustainable Tourism

Samode Palace and Samode Bagh have Sewage Treatment Plants and the treated water after being treated is recycled and used for irrigating the palace plants and gardens.
The wasted food storage area is air-conditioned so it can be preserved and sent to the piggery farm, to be recycled via manure.
Samode Palace and Bagh recruit and train people from the local area and work closely with them to try to improve living conditions and to educate the surrounding communities. The result of which is that more than 70% of the employees are from the local areas.
Both properties are active in supporting and giving indirect employment to vendors from the local communities by providing services for their guests such as camel rides, farm lunches, jeep safari and trading of handicrafts and paintings. This has lead to increased wealth and contentment and stability in the surrounding villages.
Samode encourages farmers to produce vegetables and herbs which are purchased directly by the hotels.
Samode Hotels has its own charitable trust which helps the village panchayat to improve sanitation, education, medical and infrastructure. From every room sold 2% goes to the charitable trust. Some of the work done by the trust includes: providing invertors for electricity back up for the school at Samode; providing doctor’s kit and medical equipment to the Government Hospital; offering and providing financial help for medical treatment to villagers; the restoration and repair of the ancient village temple; providing milk and fruit distribution to students in the village schools as refreshments; providing water supplies to the village during the summer months when water becomes scarce; cleaning and maintaining the village roads.