Eco-Friendly Hotels in Quito — Your 2026 Guide to Sustainable Stays

Quito — Gateway to Ecuador's Biodiversity

Ecuador packs more biodiversity per square kilometre than almost any country on Earth, and Quito positions you to experience it all. The Mindo Cloud Forest, just two hours northwest of the city, shelters over 500 bird species, giant tree ferns, and orchid-draped canopy walks. The Avenue of Volcanoes — Alexander von Humboldt's name for the corridor of peaks stretching south from Quito — includes Cotopaxi (5,897m), one of the world's highest active volcanoes, surrounded by a national park of páramo grasslands and Andean condors.

For longer trips, Quito serves as the departure point for the Galápagos Islands, where Darwin's living laboratory continues to draw naturalists. Amazon basin lodges in the Yasuní and Cuyabeno reserves offer multi-day rainforest immersions. Every night you spend in Quito booked through IMPT starts your Ecuadorian journey with verified carbon removal — a fitting way to explore one of the planet's most biodiverse nations.

Where to Stay in Quito

Historic Centre (Centro Histórico)

Quito's colonial core is a UNESCO treasure of baroque churches, grand plazas, and restored hacienda-style hotels. Properties here range from converted monasteries to intimate boutique stays, many with rooftop terraces offering views of the Panecillo hill and its towering Virgin of Quito statue. Rates through IMPT start around $35 per night.

La Mariscal & La Floresta

The modern tourist district centred on Plaza Foch offers hostels, mid-range hotels, and upscale boutique options. La Mariscal is Quito's most cosmopolitan neighbourhood, with international restaurants, craft beer bars, and easy access to the Ecovía bus rapid transit system. Neighbouring La Floresta adds a quieter, artistic atmosphere with galleries and organic cafés.

Cumbayá & the Valleys

East of Quito, the Tumbaco and Cumbayá valleys sit at slightly lower altitude with warmer temperatures and a suburban feel. Hotels here tend toward hacienda-style properties with gardens, and the area offers easy access to the Chaquiñán cycling path — a converted rail line running through the inter-Andean valley.

Ecuadorian Cuisine & Sustainable Dining in Quito

Quito's food scene reflects Ecuador's extraordinary geographic diversity — ingredients arrive from the coast, the highlands, and the Amazon. Traditional dishes like locro de papa (potato soup with avocado and cheese), ceviche de camarón from the coast, and llapingachos (stuffed potato cakes) draw from centuries of Andean and mestizo culinary tradition. The city's growing fine-dining scene, led by restaurants that source from smallholder farms in the surrounding highlands, has put Quito on the international gastronomic map.

Street food is equally compelling: empanadas de viento, choclo con queso, and fresh fruit juices from tropical species most visitors have never encountered. Ecuador's chocolate industry — built on ancient Nacional cacao varieties — has produced bean-to-bar makers in Quito whose products rival anything from Europe. A carbon-negative hotel stay through IMPT pairs naturally with this farm-to-table culture.

How IMPT Makes Your Quito Stay Carbon-Negative

Here's the maths. An average hotel night produces roughly 35 kg of CO₂ — from air conditioning, laundry, lighting, and food service. When you book any Quito hotel through IMPT, we retire 1,000 kg of UN-verified carbon removal credits. That's 28 times what your stay produces. Not carbon-neutral — carbon-negative.

The cost to you? Zero. IMPT funds the removal from its booking commission. You pay the standard nightly rate — in fact, IMPT is consistently up to 10% cheaper than Booking.com on the same room. The carbon credits are tokenised on Ethereum, retired against a named project, with a public retire code anyone can verify. No double-counting. No greenwashing. Just verified carbon removal, every night.

• €5 free credit when you sign up — applied to your first Quito booking
• 5% back on every stay — 3% funds carbon projects, 2% as travel credit
• 8M+ hotels worldwide, 195 countries — Quito is just the start
• Free cancellation on most rates, typically up to 48 hours before check-in

Beyond Hotels — More Ways IMPT Works in Quito

Shop through IMPT's 25,000+ retail partners for up to 45% cashback on purchases that also offset carbon. Send someone a trip credit gift to visit Quito — IMPT plants trees with named farmers, GPS-tagged and photo-verified.

For business travel, IMPT's B2B Corporate Travel platform gives you exclusive rates, automatic ESG reporting, and a single dashboard tracking every booking's carbon impact. Companies with CSRD compliance needs get automated sustainability reporting out of the box.

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