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Tourism 2030 Sustainability Certification Cluster Dataset Information Providers Partnership Agreement

(Version 1.0, October, 2024)


Between ECOTRANS e.V., Hedwig-Dohm-Str.22, 66117 Saarbrücken, Germany and the organisation representing the certification programme signing up for this agreement.

This agreement relates to the provision of a Tourism2030.eu import- export dataset service providing quality-assessed sustainability information supplied by credible tourism sustainability certification bodies to a range of users of such information including tourism research, development and marketing organisations, booking services, travel agents and tour operators This Dataset Information Provider Partnership Agreement details the terms and conditions of provision of tourism sustainability certification information services by Ecotrans in partnership with certification bodies who wish to distribute their  data online   or information purposes. 

‘Service(s)’ is defined as being the service which is offered by Ecotrans to the certificates  as described in clauses 1,2 and 3 of this Agreement.

‘Dataset Information Provider Partner(s)’  is defined as the signatories to this agreements with Ecotrans. 

Ecotrans will supply the services to dataset user partners under the following terms.

Data Providers -  Terms

Data Providers are requested to register in the Tourism Sustainability Certification Clustering process at: https://destinet.eu/countries/certification-cluster-world/tourism-sustainability-certification-cluster

The cluster partnership certificates, awards and standards organisations will be given full support to upload their 3rd party-assessed sustainability certified travel and tourism businesses and locations into:

  1. a) the Tourism 2030 Sustainability Market Place and
  2. b) the Tourism 2030 Travel Green Planet distribution networks who are data users in the cluster.

Data Providers will give the right to Ecotrans as the secretariat of the Cluster to pass on their information to any data users in the cluster. They will also have the right to ask to be excluded from any listings in which they do not wish to appear.

The benefits of doing so will enable partners to use the Travel Green Planet Services API to minimize work and duplication of effort when passing on their information on their certified products and services. All cluster data information providers will be promoted on the Travel Green Planet Market Place alongside their products and services in a local-to-global data content.

  1. Recommendation of Certification Programmes

Ecotrans will recommend a list of certification programmes on the Tourism2030 –Travel Green Maps to match the requirements of Data Users, including:

  • Market place types for certification: e.g. Accommodation Providers
  • Geographical coverage: operating on “national” up to “global” level, countries
  • Sustainability: Standards covering at least “environmental” sustainability
  • Credibility: Verification is based on “3rd party onsite” audits
  • Certificate’s transparency:  Profile is published on the Tourism2030 “Certification Quickfinder”

 To deliver the information, Data Users will be asked to specify:

  • what data they require (list of certifications: select from Travel Green Planet Maps )
  • how they wish to store
  • how they will use the data

A specific questionnaire has been developed for this purpose and provides full transparency of dataset use. 

  1. RDF export service on certified tourism

Ecotrans will provide RDF and similar format exports via an API to push the listings of the certified tourism businesses or destinations from Tourism2030, with the following data included:

  • Name
  • ID Number
  • Longitude, Latitude
  • Postal Address
  • Country
  • Certificate
  • Expiry Date
  • Website


  1. Updating

The RDF or similar will be delivered per certificate and list and will include a daily updating of the data set(s) according to the delivery from the certification programme to ECOTRANS (automatically per data change). The descriptions of the certification programmes and the RDF listings will be biannually updated by ECOTRANS.

  1. Rights to Use the Data – Tourism 2030 Travel Green Planet Clustering Process Partnership for the SDGs

In recognition of the multiple stakeholders who have an interest in SME and destination Sustainability Certification and in further recognition of the multiple duplication of effort, time and cost that occurs when individual entities attempt to collate this data, Ecotrans has established an online Tourism 2030 Sustainability Certification Clustering Process launched under the Travel Green Planet Initiative (2019) to support collaborative data collation and use models for information relating to sustainably certified tourism businesses.

In this local to global process, the cluster operational structure involves members from the two key categories of data users and data providers to be supported by a secretariat whose role will be to facilitate partner collaboration and data exchange.  Ecotrans has the role of clustering secretariat, using the Tourism 2030 ICT Portal to manage partners collaboration in the capture and use of sustainability certification information in the travel and tourism sectors. 

Cluster members collaborate with the secretariat to streamline data collection and distribution, sharing the cost burden among the members on a data usage basis. This minimizes duplication of effort and reduce the overall and individual cost of collection, collation and distribution of 3rd party tourism sustainability-certified and -awarded businesses, services and locations in order that Ecotrans can provide the data users with the most cost-effective means of obtaining the data they need.

Each Dataset User Partner is given access to the Tourism 2030 Sustainability Market Place, which currently contains about 20,000 listed 3rd party-assessed sustainably certified items globally provided individually by the Tourism 2030 Sustainability Cluster Data Providers such as yourself and then compiled as a transparent and quality assessed overall market listings.

Parties in this agreement will become dataset provider partners of the Travel Green Planet clustering process, a United Nations SDG 12 Sustainable Consumption and Production approach to collaboratively developing sustainable tourism consumption and production supply chains that is recognised by the UN as one of its voluntary initiatives to promote a decade of focused action on the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. 

Rights of data use are given to dataset user partners who sign a Data Users Agreement with Ecotrans under the following conditions:

  1. Data Provision Process

Ecotrans will use an API (Application Protocol Interface) to process and forward the data as provided by the respective data providers such as certification bodies. Ecotrans will inform the certification body(ies) about the RDF export service to whoever is using the dataset. The certification body(ies) have the right to veto the use of their data in the data set export should they wish at any time. In that case Ecotrans will alter the RDF export  which contains such data.  

  1. Fee Structures and Conditions of DataSet Information Provision.

The information collation process is offered free to all certificates as a supporting action to bring more 3rd party assessed tourism products and services to the market place.

  1. Starting Date, Duration and Termination of Agreement

The Service will start on the day of agreement and is valid for a period of one year (12 months). Thereafter, this agreement will be automatically renewed for periods of one year until terminated by either party giving three months written notice period, such expiry not to be before the end of the relevant month.

The Data Provider shall have the right to terminate this agreement immediately if Ecotrans consistently fails to perform the service as outlined in clauses 1,2 and 3.

  1. Data Protection

Each Party shall comply with the applicable data protection laws in handling any personal data received in complying with its obligations under this agreement.

  1. Warranties and Liability

9.1 Ecotrans is responsible for the content, legality and accuracy of the data that it provides.

Ecotrans agrees to indemnify and keep indemnified and defend at its own expense, against all and any costs, claims, losses, liability and/or expenses (including legal fees) incurred by or for which may become liable due to any failure by Ecotrans or its employees or agents to comply with any of its obligations under this Agreement or as a result of the breach of any warranty given by Ecotrans in this Agreement.

9.2 Ecotrans hereby excludes its liability to the fullest extent permitted by law, save that  shall not seek to exclude or limit its liability for fraud, intentional negligence or liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence or any other liability that cannot by law be excluded or limited.

9.3 Subject to clause 10.2, the total liability of Ecotrans shall not exceed the amount paid under this Agreement in any given year and vice versa..

  1. Miscellaneous

This Agreement, including the any appendices or schedules hereto, represents the entire agreement between the parties and replaces any oral or written agreements related to the same scope in effect prior to agreement conclusion.

This Agreement is subject to German law and the Parties hereby agree that the court having subject-matter jurisdiction in Saarbrücken shall be competent in case of any possible disputes arising herefrom.

ECOTRANS, 2024