Our Initiatives

Environmental stewardship is part of the corporate culture. Employees at all levels are involved in making our hotel environmentally accountable while providing quality service. Environmental committees are made up of employees from a variety of operational areas that investigate ways to reduce the hotel's impact on the environment. The teams assist by evaluating environmentally friendly products and promote recycling, towel and laundry programs with our guests. We have implemented various environmental initiatives that include installation of energy efficient lighting, improved waste management practices and reduced water and energy consumption programs

CHIP Hospitality was the first hotel chain in Canada to have all its hotel properties receive a national eco-friendly certification under the Hotel Association of Canada's Green Leaf program. To learn more about the Green Leaf program, visit www.terrachoice.ca .

The Citadel Halifax Hotel is committed to conducting business in a manner that assists in preserving and protecting our environment.

We believe that environmental stewardship is good for our planet, good for our people, and good for our business, and, as such, dedicate ourselves to being environmental leaders within the hospitality industry.

"Hotel with a Heart"

Friends in Need Program

The "Friends In Need" program is a national initiative of CHIP Hospitality. Thirty-six hotels in 29 cities across Canada participate in this annual campaign to raise money for local charities working with the homeless and those most in need in our society.

The Citadel Halifax Hotel is proud to support CHIP Hospitality’s "Friends in Need" program each holiday season by providing friends and family with rates as low as $49.00 for specific dates each December. The Citadel Halifax Hotel donates $10 per room sold to a local charity.

Annual Toy Drive

The Citadel Halifax Hotel employees support the local Salvation Army Angel Tree Program each year by purchasing hundreds of gifts to ensure that underprivileged children in our area receive a gift a Christmas.

A Proud Sponsor of the Parkinson Society Canada

On Tuesday, August 22nd 2006 the Parkinson Society Canada held its Auction Dinner. One of the many prizes put up for auction was the Citadel Halifax Hotel's amazing "Private Chef Night". The prize consisted of a 5-course private dinner for 6, cooked in the comfort of the buyer's home by none other than the Citadel Halifax' own Executive Chef - Michael Silvester.

Michael Silvester joined the Citadel Halifax Hotel as Executive Chef in 2004. Michael was born in British Columbia and trained in Ontario. Michael honed his culinary skills at such fine hotels establishments as Langdon Hall Country House Hotel and Spa in Cambridge, Ontario, and the Intercontinental Hotel in Toronto, Ontario.

The winner of this fabulous prize paid $950. - the highest selling item of the evening - and the proceeds will most certainly help support the Parkinson Society Canada.