Economic Development & Investment
Our hotels are often a cornerstone of the community – driving tourism, commerce and employment. Focusing on Economic Development & Investment further stimulates growth through good jobs and by creating a wide array of other opportunities in the communities we serve. At the community level, our properties and associates dedicate resources, time and talent to important initiatives that help advance our neighbors and the places we call home.
Disaster Relief
At Hyatt, we believe we're only as strong as the communities that surround our hotels; and supporting our associates and neighbors in times of disaster is integral to sustaining thriving communities.
Tokyo, Japan
When a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit the northeast coast of Japan in 2011, the Hyatt family came together raising funds to support the recovery effort. In a collaborative effort, our associates from 31 properties around the world donated over US$77,000 to the Japanese Red Cross Society.
Additionally, a group of associates from Park Hyatt Tokyo brought a "Taste of Hyatt" to an area in Japan where more than 160,000 people lost their homes as a result of the earthquake and tsunami. The team brought five truckloads of food and supplies to serve healthy meals to hundreds of evacuees.
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
The revitalized Hyatt Regency New Orleans will re-open in October 2011, six years after its closure following Hurricane Katrina. To demonstrate its commitment to the community, Hyatt Regency New Orleans is donating US$300,000 to the Make It Right Foundation, which will use these funds to build two new homes in the Lower Ninth Ward. In addition, a team of hotel associates volunteered with the foundation to revitalize a playground in the neighborhood where the new homes are to be built.
Bangkok, Thailand
After a tsunami struck Indonesia in 2004, Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok supported relief efforts by donating much-needed fishing boats, tools, food, water, money and clothes.
Fast Facts
Job opportunities for more than 85,000 people around the world
US$300,000 donated to the Make It Right Foundation to build new homes in areas of New Orleans hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina
US$77,000 donated to the Japanese Red Cross Society through associate-driven fund-raising after the 2011 tsunami
