Green Hotel - The Chittaranjan Palace, built for Mysore's princesses, has been lovingly restored as a small hotel. In extensive gardens, with formal lawns and shaded pergolas, and fringed by majestic trees, the hotel is an oasis of calm. It has been renovated and furnished using traditional Indian crafts. It offers comfortable surroundings, friendly staff, and a restful, creative atmosphere. Guests have come for a night and stayed for a month!

The Green Hotel has been set up as a model of sustainable tourism, by a UK charity. All profits are distributed to charitable and environmental projects in India.

Mysore, the charming town immortalised by RK Narayan in his Malgudi novels, provides an excellent base from which to tour South India. The Western Ghats, the coffee plantations of Coorg, the game reserves of the Nilgris and the Ooty hill station are all within a few hours drive.

The Chittaranjan Palace, built for Mysore's princesses, has been lovingly restored as a small hotel. In extensive gardens, with formal lawns and shaded pergolas, and fringed by majestic trees, the hotel is an oasis of calm. It has been renovated and furnished using traditional Indian crafts. It offers comfortable surroundings, friendly staff, and a restful, creative atmosphere. Guests have come for a night and stayed for a month!

The Green Hotel has been set up as a model of sustainable tourism, by a UK charity. All profits are distributed to charitable and environmental projects in India.

About the Green Hotel

"Giving Green a good name. An interesting spin on Green Tourism comes with the opening in Mysore, India, of the Green Hotel ... apart from the expected commitment to energy saving devices and the use of local produce, the hotel has an equal opportunities policy - particularly employing widows and abandoned wives, for whom work is usually unavailable."
- Sunday Times (UK), 23rd July, 1995

The Green Hotel has been set up as a model of sustainable tourism:

• to preserve a historic building

• to incorporate, wherever possible, energy saving and environmentally aware practices

• to use Indian craft items in furnishing, equipment and restoration

• to be a good employer, offering equal and fair opportunities

• to train staff and develop their potential

• to provide visitors with the opportunity to enjoy traditional hospitality rather than modern day uniformity.

The hotel has been selected as one of the "World's Best Ideas" by the Institute of Social Inventions, London. The hotel has won first prizes in the Mysore Horticultural Society's best garden competition, and has received an award in the British Guild of Travel Writers Tourism Project. We have also featured in the Green Hotelier Magazine and on BBC World Service television.  

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