Committed to the luxury of Fair Trade

If you savour coffee at the Viennese Hotel Imperial, you can do that with a clear conscience. The Luxury Collection Hotel commits itself to sustainability by offering Meinl organic FAIRTRADE coffee.

"Sustainability is a popular catchword but for us it is a philosophy", says General Manager Klaus Christandl. "Not without reason the Hotel Imperial has earned itselves the Eco-Label of the City of Vienna. Intelligent air-condition and heat recovery systems are not enough though when it comes to sustainable management. Fair Trade coffee is a small but important contribution to guaranteeing fair prices for producers", adds the confirmed coffee aficionado.

Tradition is alive and - as the exquisite aroma of coffee reveals - it is cultivated with careful attention here. At the Café Imperial guests meet to savour Viennese coffee specialties. Many a great work was penned here by famous writers. Former regulars of the café include such illustrious names as Rainer-Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann, Gerhart Hauptmann, Karl Kraus, Alfred Polgar and Ilse Aichinger. FAIRTRADE coffee is also served at the Restaurant Imperial, on the rooms and at the festive halls of the two Ring Boulevard Hotel Imperial.

The FAIRTRADE Quality Label proves that small farmers receive a fair minimum price above the world market price for their coffee harvest. Thus, they can live and work under humane conditions. Moreover, FAIRTRADE cooperatives commit themselves to environmentally compatible and resource-saving farming methods, emphasizing the prevention of environmental burdens for nature and coffee. Many producers have also converted to ecological farming with organic certification. Meinl organic FAIRTRADE coffee, for instance, is made of hand-picked Arabica beans from high-lying plantations in Honduras.