Sustainability Package in Chiang Mai Helps Communities in Need

CHIANG MAI, Thailand – April 2026 – Meliá Chiang Mai has launched a two-night Sustainability Package that directs part of the proceeds to Scholars of Sustenance (SOS) Thailand, a food rescue foundation.

The package includes two nights’ accommodation with breakfast and one three-course set dinner for two at MAI Restaurant & Bar on the 21st floor, featuring seasonal, locally sourced ingredients.

SOS Thailand, founded in 2016, works to minimize food waste and improve food equity by redistributing surplus food from hotels, grocers, and restaurants to communities in need across Bangkok, Phuket, Hua Hin, Chiang Mai, and other regions.

The dinner is part of Meliá Chiang Mai’s 360° Cuisine program, which emphasizes collaboration with local farmers, ethical sourcing, and thoughtful cooking processes that use every part of the ingredient. Food waste is returned to farms as fertilizer, and leftover cooking oil is recycled into biodiesel.

Menu highlights include a choice of consommé with dried redtail catfish, seasonal mushrooms, and greens, or a Khao Soi salad bowl with tai lue tofu and cage-free eggs. Main courses feature grilled Angus rib eye with galangal gravy, baked salmon fillet with nham prik oung relish, or seasonal vegetables from the hotel’s organic farm with pomelo zest cream sauce. Dessert is organic longan pudding with butterscotch sauce and coconut ice cream.

The hotel sources from ethical suppliers such as Rong Khum Organic Gourmet Farm in San Pa Tong and Jartisann’s Original Thai Cheese. Ingredients include organic jasmine rice, cage-free eggs, hormone-free milk, and a variety of vegetables and fruits like longan, lychee, papaya, dragon fruit, and bananas.

Meliá Chiang Mai also partners with universities to educate future hospitality professionals in sustainable farming, culinary innovation, and waste management practices.