Tourism2030 - January2019-01-16T06:57:00Ztag:root.destinet.eu,2019-01-16:/demo-design/News/2019/1http://root.destinet.eu/demo-design/misc_/EnviroWindows/Site.gifECOTRANSTourism2030Global Certification Quickfinder & Green Travel Maps for SDG12 tag:root.destinet.eu,2019-01-11:/demo-design/News/2019/1/global-certification-quickfinder-green-travel-maps2019-01-11T10:40:24ZHerbert HameleHerbert Hamele<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">New Tools to support Sustainable Consumption & Production in Tourism</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">More than 200 environmental and sustainable tourism certification programmes are operating worldwide: businesses, tour operators and destinations never had a greater choice of regional, national and international certificates and labels to prove their “green” commitment and performance regarding environmentally sound and socially responsible sustainability. <a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/ecotrans/">ECOTRANS</a> now provides on the Tourism2030 platform easy access and transparency to these certificates through its global <a href="/resources/tools/certification-quickfinder">Certification Quickfinder</a> and the <a href="/market-place/green-travel-maps">Green Travel Maps</a>.</span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Which certificate for my business?</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Global <a href="/resources/tools/certification-quickfinder">Certification Quickfinder</a> with 240 certificates helps tourism businesses, destinations and tour operators to find those certificates which are available to them in their country and which meet their expectations on the coverage of sustainability issues, the credibility level, the visibility of their certified tourism on the global Green Travel Maps and other services for their applicants and members.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Which certified tourism in my country or destination?</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The <a href="/market-place/green-travel-maps">Green Travel Maps</a> with 8000 certified businesses and destinations are continuously updated and expanded in partnership with the underlying certification programmes. In agreement with the certification programmes ECOTRANS is providing on demand the listings of certified businesses to international marketing and booking services and tour operators as information base for their product development and marketing. <br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">See the current list of “Mapping Partners: Certificates with their Profiles and Maps” <a href="/resources/certificates">here</a>. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>A free service for certificates to support SDG12</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Certification programmes are invited to use these online services on the Tourism2030 platform, provided by ECOTRANS for free as part of the <a href="/who-who/civil-society-ngos/triangle">TRIANGLE project</a> with financial support from the European Erasmus + programme. With the Certification Quickfinder and the Green Travel Maps the partners are supporting the Sustainable Development Goal of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SDG12).</span></p>
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<p><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <a href="mailto:contact@ecotrans.de"><strong>contact@ecotrans.de</strong></a></span></p>GSTC Criteria Destinations revision: Join the public consultation!tag:root.destinet.eu,2019-01-16:/demo-design/News/2019/1/gstc-criteria-destinations-join-public-consultation2019-01-16T06:58:02ZHerbert HameleHerbert Hamele<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 18pt;">The GSTC Destination Criteria revision is underway – Join the public consultation</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) invites you to have input into the revision of the GSTC Criteria for Destinations. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The GSTC Criteria serve as the global baseline standards for sustainability in travel and tourism. They are the result of a worldwide effort to develop a common language about sustainability in tourism.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt;">The the first round of consultation is now open for all. We welcome you to take part in the consultation and comment on the GSTC Destination Criteria: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/the-gstc-destination-criteria-revision-has-begun-have-your-say/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.gstcouncil.org/the-gstc-destination-criteria-revision-has-begun-have-your-say/</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt;">We encourage you to share this invitation with anyone who is involved directly and indirectly with tourism.</span></p>