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Green Tourism Week

4/11/2013

 
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Green Tourism Week is an initiative of the UK's Green Tourism organisation, a group we are proud to support. The week is being used to highlight the bottom-line benefits of green-mindedness to tourism businesses and to raise awareness of green issues relating to tourism. The bad news is that a relatively small fraction of the UK's tourism business is actively trying to work in a more sustainable way, but the really good news is that this is changing fast and the number is growing. Not just because it might help the planet! Going "green" almost always helps the business by reducing costs (energy for example), or attracting an increasingly more discerning public.

Here in Gorge View Cottage we're doing our bit, and we're chuffed to have been awarded our Gold level award after a very detailed and through appraisal. But big commercial concerns are also finding it a positive thing to do: one of the biggest being Wembley Stadium, and also the Jurys Inn group of hotels, which are both recipients of the highest Gold level accreditation. So our little cottage is in good company!

At the end of this Green Tourism Week the highlight is the UK's first Green Tourism Conference. It will be held at the @Bristol Science Centre (@Bristol is another fantastically committed Green Tourism destination). During the Conference the greenest businesses in the UK will be recognised by being awarded the much coveted GoldStar Award. We'll be there to find out more about how we can improve ourselves and promote Green Tourism in general. We'll let you know how it goes. 

Find out more about all of this at the Green Tourism website, and Facebook page. And you can support Green Tourism by making an informed choice about where you go and stay and how you travel using the Green Tourism mark as a trusted sign of a business's sustainable credentials.


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