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Orchard Garden Hotel-California's First Truly 'Green' Hotel

Located in the heart of San Francisco, the Orchard Garden Hotel is California’s first truly ‘green’ hotel. This hotel was built to meet the nationally accepted standards for green building and earned a “Leadership in Energey & Environmental Design” certification becoming only the 4th hotel in the world to earn this certification.

The Orcahrd Garden hotel is a short stroll from Union Square shops and theatres, blocks away from the Financial District dealmakers and San Francisco’s legendary cable cars, and just steps from the Chinatown gate. Each of the 86 stylish guest rooms are decorated in soothing colors and fabrics and include high-speed Internet and Wi-Fi access, high definition LCD television with DVD and CD player, iPod docking station, coffee/tea maker, honor bar, in-room safe, dual-line cordless telephones and Aveda organic bath products. The Orchard Garden Hotel also includes in-room recycling, chemical-free cleaning products, compact fluorescent light bulbs and a 100% tobacco-free environment.

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With close to 1 billion tourists traveling throughout the world it has become more important than ever before that travelers minimize their negative impact on the earth. Tourism is one of the world’s largest industries and as it continues to grow it is important each person plays their part in the development of sustainable tourism.