Green Globe provides certification, training & education, and marketing services in 83 countries worldwide. They are based in Los Angeles, California and with partners in Mexico, South America, South Africa, Middle East, the Caribbean and Europe. Green Globe provides certification for the sustainable operations and management of travel and tourism companies and their related supplier businesses. The Green Globe brand has represented the best in environmental responsibility. The brand and its associated programs hold even greater promise as the world further embraces the need for sustainability and response to global climate change as essential core values.
We benchmarked Green Globe label against the GSTC standard and Green Globe is compliant with following hearts of the staygreencheck :
Green Globe standard performed as the Greenest Choice, according to the our staygreencheck methodology. All the accommodations certified by Green Globe will have the 4 heart staygreencheck.
You can recognize them as follows:
Eco-certification
The Green Globe certification is a structured assessment of the sustainability performance of travel and tourism businesses and their supply chain partners. Businesses can monitor improvements and document achievements leading to certification of their enterprises’ sustainable operation and management. Green Globe is divided into 3 levels of certification, namely Certified Member, Gold Member, and Platinum Member.
Some nerdy stuff:
- The certificate is valid for 1 year.
- The Green Globe auditing process is done by independent environmental auditors that are contracted through Green Globe Certification
- See Green Globe standards here
- Do you want to know more about Green Globe click here
Best practices
Best practice examples of the Green Globe certified Hotels include, projects, where a donation for every liter of water used in hotel rooms is made towards water projects in drier areas in developing countries. Programs to minimize procurement of waste-producing inputs in place, Annual donation of clothes to a municipality or region in need, Or even developing artificial reef to protect endangered coral reefs, which are vital to sustaining bio-diversity.
