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Established 1968, KGH Group of Hotels and Resorts is Nepal’s leading hotel chain with 7 eco-friendly hotels under its flagship. Karna Sakya, founder of KGH Group, is hailed as the father of tourism in Nepal. He has been given credit for putting Nepal on the tourist map. He is renowned for opening the Kathmandu Guest House in 1968, the company’s first hotel which was instrumental in starting adventure tourism in the country and creating the famous tourism hub of Kathmandu - Thamel.
Many renowned writers, mountaineers, researchers and artists have come and left their footprints at our hotels. The KGH Group today has grown from 13-room Guest House in Thamel that hosted the hippies and the mountaineers to a 500 room hotel chain in all the popular tourism destinations of Nepal.
Under the famous Pomelo tree in the KGH gardens, where once you could spot a celebrity like Tony Wheeler, founder of Lonely Planet writing a book, today we continue to host technology savvy travelers in their laptops and cell phones along with international pop stars like Ricky Martin and Jeremy Irons who prefer to stay in a homegrown brand like KGH rather than the popular five stars of the world.
At the KGH, we believe that being entrepreneurs and contributing to the nation’s economy is not an end by itself, it should lead to higher goals for your social and community well being. The Board of Directors of the KGH Group of Hotels are very active in various social areas ranging from environment, health, women and youth empowerment, and migrant labor support.
At the KGH, we believe that being entrepreneurs and contributing to the nation’s economy is not an end by itself, it should lead to higher goals for your social and community well being. The Board of Directors of the KGH Group of Hotels are very active in various social areas ranging from environment, health, women and youth empowerment, and migrant labor support.
1) KGH has a pro-active and on-going program with Maiti Nepal for the training and employment of women who have been subjected to trafficking - with the aim of rehabilitating them back into society. KGH has so far employed more than 25 girls from Maiti Nepal and some of them are now married and leading normal lives.
2) The KGH is also further helping the trafficked victims by designing an income generating and entrepreneurial project whereby they can get jobs and be self reliant. A bigger awareness program on trafficking of the girl child is also being worked on with various media partners.
3) Menstruation is a taboo in Nepal and many women and girls are seen to be untouchables during the time of the month. Moreover, lack of clean and hygienic practices during menstruation lead to vaginal and ovarian diseases. The KGH supports a menstrual hygiene sanitation program by distributing recyclable cloth sanitary napkins to remote villages where women and girls do not have access to clean napkins. The distribution of sanitary pads has been highly appreciated by women who have received it and are now aware of the importance of menstrual hygiene.
4) The KGH supports youth empowerment by giving a platform for young people to share their entrepreneurial ideas and helps them to network and connect with necessary people and institutions for their business development.
5) KGH Hotels and Resorts - environment friendly Daily Operations
• Water saving sanitation – All new rooms in our hotels have low flow toilet and shower-heads, which reduces water usage by two thirds.
• Drinking water plant – We have our own mineral water plant and all plastic bottles and water containers are 100% recycled.
• Silent generators with minimum diesel consumption, installed in all our hotels, to reduce energy consumption and pollution.
• Energy saving bulbs – KGH Hotels use energy saving CFL & LED bulbs.
• Key Card master switch – All newly built rooms have Key Card master switch, that automatically turns off the lights.
• Linen and Towel Re-use rule – Guests are requested to help us save water and energy by reusing towels and linens.
• Refilling bottles – All our liquid toiletries bottles (soap, shampoo, bath-gel), are not discarded but refilled.
• All our garbage is separated – degradable and non-degradable. Can we use degradable garbage as fertilizer in our vegetable gardens?
• Re-cycle paper – Menu, tariff cards, notices, visiting cards etc are printed on whole or partly recycled paper.
• Environmentally neutral paint – In all our hotels from 2014 environmentally friendly paint will be used. Berger paints.
• Give me CO2, I give you O2 – The KGH turns words into action, which you can experience in our gardens. As a green hotel chain we strive to plant trees to make our hotel environmentally rich in biodiversity.
