Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants gets Perfect 100 on HRC Consumer Equality Index.
I can’t say that I’m surprised, and I’m definitely delighted. You may recall that I held my wedding at the Cypress Hotel, which is a part of the Kimpton chain. Sapphocrat and I also stayed in one of their beautiful suites the night before and the night of our wedding and were treated like royalty. I couldn’t recommend them more. But on with the story.
Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants has announced that it earned the top rating of 100 percent in the 2009 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), an annual survey administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Kimpton joins the ranks of 259 other major U.S. businesses which receive top marks for their treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) employees and consumers.
In 2008, Kimpton became the only company where all hotels were members of the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) and all hotels are TAG Approved, the largest directory of gay friendly hotels and resorts. Additionally, on May 1, 2008, at the IGLTA Convention in Las Vegas, Kimpton won the PlanetOut 2008 Hotel Group of the Year award. For more information about Kimpton’s LGBT program, visit Kimpton Hotels LGBT
Incidentally it was the Planet Out award that led us to Kimpton and the Cypress Hotel. When we read how LGBT friendly they were we wanted to give them our business and we were very satisfied with the results. Everybody, from the front desk clerks to our wedding planner to the waitstaff, were amazing.
The CEI rated 583 businesses in total, evaluating LGBT-related policies and practices including non-discrimination policies, transgender health benefits and domestic partner benefits. Kimpton’s efforts in ensuring LGBT equality in each of the survey’s main criterion earned it the prestigious 100 percent ranking. Kimpton was the first hospitality company to score a 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index back in 2004, and has secured that perfect score every year since then.
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Like many of Kimpton’s programs that anticipate the preferences of its guests, such as women travelers, business travelers, pet owners, health and wellness minded travelers, the company’s welcoming stance toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community exemplifies its commitment to inclusion. For more information on the 2009 Corporate Equality Index, or to download a free copy of the report, visit HRC CEI
Kimpton has definitely earned that 100%. They’ll be first on my list whenever I’m travelling or if anybody needs a recommendation.
