Thailand’s Melia Chiang Mai is linking guest stays with community impact through a new Sustainability Package that supports a local food rescue foundation. The 2-night offer includes breakfast and a 3-course dinner at the hotel’s onsite MAI Restaurant and Bar, located on the 21st floor, highlighting seasonal, locally sourced ingredients.
The package, available until June 14, 2026, supports Scholars of Sustenance (SOS) Thailand, a food rescue foundation established in 2016 to enhance the country’s food system. SOS Thailand aims to minimize needless loss of surplus food and improve food equity by redistributing quality surplus food on a daily basis from hotels, grocers, and restaurants to communities in need in Bangkok, Phuket, Hua Hin, Chiang Mai and other places.
The contemporary Thai set dinner is part of Melia Chiang Mai’s 360° Cuisine program, in which the hotel works closely with local farmers to help improve sustainability and encourage ethical production.
The program maximizes ingredient use—from roots and leaves to stems and stalks—through a “thoughtful cooking process,” while food waste is returned to farms as fertilizer. Leftover cooking oil is recycled into biodiesel.
The set menu offers starters like consommé or khao soi salad, mains including grilled Angus ribeye and baked salmon, and a dessert to finish.
The hotel’s 360° Cuisine program’s network of ethical and chemical-free suppliers includes organic gourmet farm Rong Khum in Sa Pa Tong and Jartisann’s Original Thai Cheese, which crafts artisanal cheese made from high-quality, locally sourced raw cow’s milk. The hotel sources the likes of organic Jasmine rice, cage-free eggs, fresh organic milk free of added hormones, vegetables such as betel leaves, coriander, spring onion, star gooseberry and chili, and fruits including longan, lychee, papaya, dragon fruit and bananas from Rong Khum for guests’ meals at Mai Restaurant & Bar, Laan Na Kitchen, MAI The Sky Bar and Ruen Kaew Lounge.
Additionally, Melia Chiang Mai collaborates with universities to support the next generation of hospitality talent through training in sustainable farming, culinary and waste management practices.
To book the Sustainability Package, e-mail [email protected].
