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class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Auditor Training</span></a></li></ul></li><li id="menu-item-28" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-has-children menu-item-28 fusion-dropdown-menu" data-item-id="28"><a class="fusion-background-highlight"><span class="menu-text">TRAINING</span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li id="menu-item-2387" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2387 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/sustainable-tourism-training/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Sustainable Tourism Training Program (STTP)</span></a></li><li id="menu-item-21561" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-21561 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/sustainable-tourism-training/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Upcoming Courses</span></a></li><li id="menu-item-2383" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2383 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/sustainable-tourism-training/certificate-in-sustainable-tourism/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Professional Certificate in Sustainable Tourism</span></a></li><li id="menu-item-30696" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-30696 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/sustainable-tourism-training/certificate-in-sustainable-business-travel/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Professional Certificate in Sustainable Business Travel</span></a></li><li id="menu-item-2388" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2388 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/sustainable-tourism-training/gstc-trainers-partners/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Trainers and Partners</span></a></li><li id="menu-item-2384" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type 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class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Become a GSTC Member ></span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li id="menu-item-2391" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-has-children menu-item-2391" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/become-a-gstc-member/organizational-membership/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Organization Membership</span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li id="menu-item-23373" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-23373" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/become-a-gstc-member/organizational-membership/org-membership-app/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Organization Membership Application</span></a></li></ul></li><li id="menu-item-2926" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-has-children menu-item-2926" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/become-a-gstc-member/destination-membership/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Destination 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History</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1043067" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/market-access-program/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Market Access Program</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-has-children menu-item-2610 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>The People of GSTC ></span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2364" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/about/people/gstc-staff/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Staff</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2365" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/about/people/board-of-directors/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Board of Directors</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type 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class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Recruitment</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2372 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/contact-us/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Contact GSTC</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-22758 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/about/for-the-press/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC For the Press</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-28777 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/donate/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Donate</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom current-menu-ancestor menu-item-has-children menu-item-2608 fusion-dropdown-menu" data-item-id="2608"><a class="fusion-background-highlight"><span class="menu-text">CRITERIA</span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page current-page-ancestor current-page-parent menu-item-has-children menu-item-2378 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Criteria Overview ></span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2376" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/criteria-development-revisions/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Criteria Development & Revisions</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-1351971" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/criteria-development-and-revisions-history/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Criteria Development & Revisions History</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1351863" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/feedback/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Feedback</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1349910" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-early-adopter-programs/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Early Adopter Programs</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2382" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/glossary/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Sustainable Tourism Glossary</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-22687" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-and-sdgs/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>SDGs and GSTC Criteria</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2375 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-industry-criteria/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Industry Criteria</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2377 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-destination-criteria/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Destination Criteria</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1067870 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-mice-criteria/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC MICE Criteria</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1354528 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-attraction-criteria/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Attraction Criteria</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2374 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/criteria-translations/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Criteria Translations</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page current-menu-ancestor current-menu-parent current_page_parent current_page_ancestor menu-item-has-children menu-item-30672 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-recognized-standards/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC-Recognized Standards ></span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page current-menu-item page_item page-item-24900 current_page_item menu-item-24917" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-recognized-standards-for-hotels/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC-Recognized Standards for Hotels</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-24916" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-recognized-standards-for-tour-operators/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC-Recognized Standards for Tour Operators</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2661" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-recognized-standards-for-destinations/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC-Recognized Standards for Destinations</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2708" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/certification/achieve-gstc-recognized/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Recognition of Standards (for Standard Owners)</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1027906 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-committed/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC-Committed</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-has-children menu-item-27 fusion-dropdown-menu" data-item-id="27"><a class="fusion-background-highlight"><span class="menu-text">CERTIFICATION</span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2705 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/certification/become-certified-hotel/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Certification for Hotels</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2707 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/certification/become-certified-tour-operator/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Certification for Tour Operator</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2706 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/certification/become-certified-destination/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Certification for Destination</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-17798 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/certification/accreditation-certification-recognition/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>What is Certification? Accreditation? Recognition?</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-has-children menu-item-1348393 fusion-dropdown-menu" data-item-id="1348393"><a href="#" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span class="menu-text">ACCREDITATION</span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1348389 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/accreditation/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Accreditation</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-22518 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/accreditation/gstc-accredited-certification-bodies/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Accredited Certification Bodies</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1348392 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/accreditation/accreditation-documents/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Accreditation Documents</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1350794 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/accreditation/certification-scheme/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>CS-CB Framework</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1348390 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/accreditation/public-consultations/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Public Consultations</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1348391 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/accreditation/gstc-auditor-training-2/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Auditor Training</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-has-children menu-item-28 fusion-dropdown-menu" data-item-id="28"><a class="fusion-background-highlight"><span class="menu-text">TRAINING</span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2387 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/sustainable-tourism-training/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Sustainable Tourism Training Program (STTP)</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-21561 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/sustainable-tourism-training/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Upcoming Courses</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2383 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/sustainable-tourism-training/certificate-in-sustainable-tourism/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Professional Certificate in Sustainable Tourism</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-30696 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/sustainable-tourism-training/certificate-in-sustainable-business-travel/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Professional Certificate in Sustainable Business Travel</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2388 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/sustainable-tourism-training/gstc-trainers-partners/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Trainers and Partners</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2384 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/sustainable-tourism-training/faq-gstc-training-program/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>FAQs: GSTC Training Program</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-has-children menu-item-30 fusion-dropdown-menu" data-item-id="30"><a class="fusion-background-highlight"><span class="menu-text">MEMBERSHIP</span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-17961 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/membership/member-search/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Members</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-has-children menu-item-2393 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/become-a-gstc-member/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Become a GSTC Member ></span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-has-children menu-item-2391" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/become-a-gstc-member/organizational-membership/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Organization Membership</span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-23373" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/become-a-gstc-member/organizational-membership/org-membership-app/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Organization Membership Application</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-has-children menu-item-2926" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/become-a-gstc-member/destination-membership/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Destination Membership</span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-26966" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/become-a-gstc-member/organizational-membership/org-membership-app/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Destination Membership Application</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item 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class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Webinars for GSTC Members</span></a></li><li class="nmr-logged-out menu-item menu-item-type-tml_action menu-item-object-login menu-item-19800 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/membership/login/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Members Log In</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-has-children menu-item-4577 fusion-dropdown-menu" data-item-id="4577"><a class="fusion-background-highlight"><span class="menu-text">EVENTS</span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-30219 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/membership/upcoming-members-webinars/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Upcoming Webinars</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-733625 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc2024singapore/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC2024 Singapore, Nov 13-16</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-1283909 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/events/upcoming-conferences/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Upcoming Conferences</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-taxonomy menu-item-object-category menu-item-35073 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/topics/news/gstc-conferences/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Past Conferences</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-taxonomy menu-item-object-category menu-item-has-children menu-item-18391 fusion-dropdown-menu" data-item-id="18391"><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/topics/news/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span class="menu-text">NEWS</span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item 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class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>About GSTC</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2371" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/about/gstc-impact/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Mission & Impacts</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-29713" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/about/gstc-history/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC History</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1043067" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/market-access-program/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Market Access Program</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-has-children menu-item-2610 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>The People of GSTC ></span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item 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href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/about/sponsors-of-gstc/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Sponsors</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-26799" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/membership/member-search/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Members</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-522971" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/about/people/recruitment/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Recruitment</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2372 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/contact-us/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Contact GSTC</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-22758 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/about/for-the-press/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC For the Press</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-28777 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/donate/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Donate</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom current-menu-ancestor menu-item-has-children menu-item-2608 fusion-dropdown-menu" data-item-id="2608"><a class="fusion-background-highlight"><span class="menu-text">CRITERIA</span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page current-page-ancestor current-page-parent menu-item-has-children menu-item-2378 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Criteria Overview ></span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2376" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/criteria-development-revisions/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Criteria Development & Revisions</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-1351971" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/criteria-development-and-revisions-history/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Criteria Development & Revisions History</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1351863" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/feedback/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Feedback</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1349910" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-early-adopter-programs/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Early Adopter Programs</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2382" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/glossary/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Sustainable Tourism Glossary</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-22687" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-and-sdgs/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>SDGs and GSTC Criteria</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2375 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-industry-criteria/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Industry Criteria</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2377 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-destination-criteria/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Destination Criteria</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1067870 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-mice-criteria/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC MICE Criteria</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1354528 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-attraction-criteria/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Attraction Criteria</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2374 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/criteria-translations/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Criteria Translations</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page current-menu-ancestor current-menu-parent current_page_parent current_page_ancestor menu-item-has-children menu-item-30672 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-recognized-standards/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC-Recognized Standards ></span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page current-menu-item page_item page-item-24900 current_page_item menu-item-24917" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-recognized-standards-for-hotels/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC-Recognized Standards for Hotels</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-24916" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-recognized-standards-for-tour-operators/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC-Recognized Standards for Tour Operators</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2661" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-recognized-standards-for-destinations/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC-Recognized Standards for Destinations</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2708" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/certification/achieve-gstc-recognized/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Recognition of Standards (for Standard Owners)</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1027906 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-committed/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC-Committed</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-has-children menu-item-27 fusion-dropdown-menu" data-item-id="27"><a class="fusion-background-highlight"><span class="menu-text">CERTIFICATION</span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2705 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/certification/become-certified-hotel/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Certification for Hotels</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2707 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/certification/become-certified-tour-operator/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Certification for Tour Operator</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2706 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/certification/become-certified-destination/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Certification for Destination</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-17798 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/certification/accreditation-certification-recognition/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>What is Certification? Accreditation? Recognition?</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-has-children menu-item-1348393 fusion-dropdown-menu" data-item-id="1348393"><a href="#" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span class="menu-text">ACCREDITATION</span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1348389 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/accreditation/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Accreditation</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-22518 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/accreditation/gstc-accredited-certification-bodies/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Accredited Certification Bodies</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1348392 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/accreditation/accreditation-documents/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Accreditation Documents</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1350794 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/accreditation/certification-scheme/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>CS-CB Framework</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1348390 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/accreditation/public-consultations/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Public Consultations</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1348391 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/accreditation/gstc-auditor-training-2/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Auditor Training</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-has-children menu-item-28 fusion-dropdown-menu" data-item-id="28"><a class="fusion-background-highlight"><span class="menu-text">TRAINING</span></a><ul class="sub-menu"><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2387 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/sustainable-tourism-training/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Sustainable Tourism Training Program (STTP)</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-21561 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/sustainable-tourism-training/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Upcoming Courses</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2383 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/sustainable-tourism-training/certificate-in-sustainable-tourism/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Professional Certificate in Sustainable Tourism</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-30696 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/sustainable-tourism-training/certificate-in-sustainable-business-travel/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>Professional Certificate in Sustainable Business Travel</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2388 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/sustainable-tourism-training/gstc-trainers-partners/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>GSTC Trainers and Partners</span></a></li><li class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2384 fusion-dropdown-submenu" ><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/sustainable-tourism-training/faq-gstc-training-program/" class="fusion-background-highlight"><span>FAQs: GSTC Training Program</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="menu-item 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style="max-width:100%;"><section id="content" class="full-width"><div id="post-24900" class="post-24900 page type-page status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry"> <span class="entry-title rich-snippet-hidden">GSTC-Recognized Standards for Hotels</span><span class="vcard rich-snippet-hidden"><span class="fn"><a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/author/rariel/" title="Posts by rariel" rel="author">rariel</a></span></span><span class="updated rich-snippet-hidden">2024-08-05T15:21:32+08:00</span><div class="post-content"><div class="fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling" style="--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;" ><div class="fusion-builder-row fusion-row"><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-1"><h1 style="text-align: center;">GSTC-Recognized Standards for Hotels</h1><p>GSTC-Recognized Standards are sustainable tourism standards that adhere to and are equivalent to the GSTC Criteria. This means that the GSTC Criteria are included within the set of standards owned by a Certification Body, by a municipal, provincial, or national tourism authority, by specialized tourism organization, or by large tourism businesses with multiple business units.</p><p>GSTC-Recognized means that a sustainable tourism standard has been reviewed by GSTC technical experts and the GSTC Assurance Panel, and deemed equivalent to the GSTC Criteria for sustainable tourism. This means that the GSTC has verified that the standard aligns with the GSTC Criteria and that any additional clauses do not contradict GSTC Criteria requirements. GSTC Recognition does <em>not</em> ensure that the certification <em>process</em> is reliable, only that the <em>set of standards</em> used to certify includes the minimum elements to ensure sustainability. A Certification Body that utilizes a GSTC-Recognized standard may apply for GSTC-Accreditation which relates to the quality and neutrality of their certification process.</p><p>The following standards have been Recognized as aligned with the GSTC Industry Criteria for Hotels and Accommodations<br /> (visit here for <a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-recognized-standards-for-tour-operators/">GSTC-Recognized Standards for Tour Operators</a>)<br /> (visit here for <a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-recognized-standards-for-destinations/">GSTC-Recognized Standards for Destinations</a>)</p></div><div class="table-1"><table width="100%"><thead><tr><th align="left">This is a list of <em>standards. </em>GSTC has NOT analyzed the quality of the process of certification of these standards except <a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/certification/gstc-accredited-certification-bodies/">those that have been accredited by GSTC</a>.</p><p>By December 31, 2024, owners of existing Recognized Standards used for “certification” need to formally open an application to pursue accreditation or enter into the arrangement with GSTC whereby they act as a “Certification Scheme”. Otherwise the Recognition status shall be immediately terminated. <a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/certification/achieve-gstc-recognized/#maintain-recognition">Read more here</a>.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="left"><em>GSTC does NOT certify directly. The GSTC Criteria appear in this list to clarify the point that Certification Bodies that gain accreditation have the option to certify by using their own GSTC-Recognized standard or by using the GSTC Criteria.</em></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-2" style="--awb-content-alignment:center;"><h2></h2><hr /><h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><br /> GSTC-Recognized Standards for</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> Hotels</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: black;">(participating in the GSTC </span></strong><strong><span style="color: black;">Market Access Program</span></strong><strong><span style="color: black;">)</span></strong></h2></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling" style="--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;" ><div class="fusion-builder-row fusion-row"><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-1"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-5254e757362b81433 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_5254e757362b81433"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="5254e757362b81433" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-1" data-target="#5254e757362b81433" href="#5254e757362b81433"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Actively Green Standard</span></a></h4></div><div id="5254e757362b81433" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_5254e757362b81433"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-31843 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Actively-Green-logo-150x150.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-31843 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Actively-Green-logo-150x150.png" alt="" width="120" height="120" /></noscript>The Actively Green standard is the core component used in the Actively Green Sustainable Business Training and Certification Program. It was launched as an innovative legacy initiative of the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Vail and Beaver Creek, Colorado, USA through a partnership with Sustainable Travel International and Town of Vail. Another component of the Program is the Mountain IDEAL destination standard for mountain resort communities.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-2"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-620b8ebbedb3ca541 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_620b8ebbedb3ca541"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="620b8ebbedb3ca541" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-2" data-target="#620b8ebbedb3ca541" href="#620b8ebbedb3ca541"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Adventure Green Alaska Standard</span></a></h4></div><div id="620b8ebbedb3ca541" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_620b8ebbedb3ca541"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-24658 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AGA_Summit_logo_circle-transparent-letters-150x150.jpg" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-24658 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AGA_Summit_logo_circle-transparent-letters-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="120" height="120" /></noscript>Adventure Green Alaska began in 2007 as a statewide effort to grow sustainable tourism in Alaska and promote model businesses practicing economic, environmental and social sustainability. It is Alaska’s only sustainable tourism certification program and was created entirely by volunteers. The program came under the Alaska Travel Industry Association in 2015, whose goal was to grow the program in Alaska and increase the programs credibility through the development of a new level of standards, AGA Summit, that meet the GSTC Criteria for tour operators and accommodations.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-3"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-ec10ed6d6e4943a1e fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_ec10ed6d6e4943a1e"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="ec10ed6d6e4943a1e" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-3" data-target="#ec10ed6d6e4943a1e" href="#ec10ed6d6e4943a1e"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Ambassador Level of La Buena Huella Standard</span></a></h4></div><div id="ec10ed6d6e4943a1e" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_ec10ed6d6e4943a1e"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-702211 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20230%20119'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="La Buena Huella" width="230" height="119" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/ARC360_logo-principal-1-300x155.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-702211 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/ARC360_logo-principal-1-300x155.png" alt="La Buena Huella" width="230" height="119" /></noscript><br /> The Ambassador Level of La Buena Huella’s Standard set out in ARC360 allows Tourist Accommodations to analyze, diagnose, connect, implement, develop, control, measure and take advantage of tactical actions and operations from a coordinated, human and efficient strategy.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-4 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-4"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-616c45b2230e577f6 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_616c45b2230e577f6"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="616c45b2230e577f6" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-4" data-target="#616c45b2230e577f6" href="#616c45b2230e577f6"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Austrian Ecolabel for Tourism</span></a></h4></div><div id="616c45b2230e577f6" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_616c45b2230e577f6"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-22592 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20121%20121'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="121" height="121" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Austrian-Ecolabel-for-Tourism-150x150.jpg" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-22592 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Austrian-Ecolabel-for-Tourism-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="121" height="121" /></noscript>The <a href="https://tourismus.umweltzeichen.at/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Austrian Ecolabel for Tourism and Leisure-time Industry</a> was the first national eco-label for tourism worldwide. It was implemented in 1996 by the Austrian Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism. Almost all types of tourism businesses can be awarded for their commitment in the fields of environmentally friendly management and social responsibility through independent third-party audits on site. The Ecolabel for tourist accommodation covers businesses of any size fulfilling an advanced set of criteria developed and regularly updated in a comprehensive stakeholder process involving tourism as well as environmental experts.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-5 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-5"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-37552f28252ee1b18 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_37552f28252ee1b18"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="37552f28252ee1b18" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-5" data-target="#37552f28252ee1b18" href="#37552f28252ee1b18"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Bioscore Standard</span></a></h4></div><div id="37552f28252ee1b18" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_37552f28252ee1b18"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-1177127 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20241%2072'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="Bioscore Standard gains GSTC-Recognized Standard Status" width="241" height="72" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Marca_H_Bioscore-1.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-1177127 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Marca_H_Bioscore-1.png" alt="Bioscore Standard gains GSTC-Recognized Standard Status" width="241" height="72" /></noscript></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Bioscore standard establishes a set of criteria for the sustainable management of accommodation from a triple impact perspective, that is, considering the environmental, social and governance dimensions. The criteria are divided into 6 management areas: emissions, energy, water, waste, food and beverage and CSR.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not only requirements are set, but also questions are asked about procedures or best practices and evidence of the main sustainable management criteria is requested. In addition, the criteria are set taking into account the most common performance indicators in hotel management so that the establishment can easily identify the requested information.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Its purpose is to assess the sustainability of your accommodation, as well as to serve as a reference for you to improve your sustainable management system. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bioscore’s mission is to democratize sustainability, so the standard can be applied to any type of accommodation that wants to demonstrate its commitment to sustainability.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-6 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-6"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-03d804eb0e1270c73 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_03d804eb0e1270c73"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="03d804eb0e1270c73" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-6" data-target="#03d804eb0e1270c73" href="#03d804eb0e1270c73"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Biosphere Standard for Hotels</span></a></h4></div><div id="03d804eb0e1270c73" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_03d804eb0e1270c73"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-19293 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/imagotipo_biosphere_nuevo-150x150.jpg" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-19293 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/imagotipo_biosphere_nuevo-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="120" height="120" /></noscript><a href="https://www.biospheretourism.com/en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biosphere</a> Tourism is a standard by the Responsible Tourism Institute (RTI), an international organization that has been promoting for more than 20 years responsible tourism at an international level. Through the Biosphere brand, the RTI promotes Sustainable Development by measuring the contribution of tourism to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations and the indications of the Paris Agreement against Climate Change.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-7 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-7"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-fdf91a88cb5fbe669 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_fdf91a88cb5fbe669"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="fdf91a88cb5fbe669" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-7" data-target="#fdf91a88cb5fbe669" href="#fdf91a88cb5fbe669"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Cabo Verde Sustainability Standard for Tourist Accommodations</span></a></h4></div><div id="fdf91a88cb5fbe669" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_fdf91a88cb5fbe669"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-533436 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20112%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="112" height="120" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Logo_Vertical-IGQPI.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-533436 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Logo_Vertical-IGQPI.png" alt="" width="112" height="120" /></noscript><br /> The Cape Verdean Sustainability Standard for Tourist Accommodations was created by initiative of the Institute for Quality Management and Intellectual Property (IGQPI), to provide guidelines for Tourist Accommodations, so that the services provided as well as their business are based on the best practices of sustainable tourism. This standard is based on four pillars: Sustainability Management System, Environmental Dimension, Social Dimension and Economic Dimension.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-8 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-8"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-f16a8a2e137c45083 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_f16a8a2e137c45083"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="f16a8a2e137c45083" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-8" data-target="#f16a8a2e137c45083" href="#f16a8a2e137c45083"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Chile Sello S (SERNATUR)</span></a></h4></div><div id="f16a8a2e137c45083" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_f16a8a2e137c45083"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-4291 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20227%20110'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="227" height="110" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/sernatur.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-4291 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/sernatur.png" alt="" width="227" height="110" /></noscript><br /> The Chilean national system for distinction of sustainable tourism recognize the efforts of tourist accommodation that have progressed in any field of sustainability, differentiating its members over their competitors while ensuring visitors each organization’s commitment to sustainability.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-9 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-9"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-ae2b2d6b8a9fe18fc fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_ae2b2d6b8a9fe18fc"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="ae2b2d6b8a9fe18fc" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-9" data-target="#ae2b2d6b8a9fe18fc" href="#ae2b2d6b8a9fe18fc"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Costa Rica Certification for Sustainable Tourism (CST)</span></a></h4></div><div id="ae2b2d6b8a9fe18fc" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_ae2b2d6b8a9fe18fc"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-27314 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Costa-Rica-CST-Logo-150x150.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-27314 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Costa-Rica-CST-Logo-150x150.png" alt="" width="120" height="120" /></noscript>The Certification for Sustainable Tourism (CST), established by the Costa Rican Tourism Institute in 1997, was created to provide guidelines for hotel properties and service providers to build their business model based on the best sustainable tourism practices – the management and impact of the natural, cultural and social resources of the country. The criteria and indicators that are valued to award certification include: business management; social, cultural and economic management; environmental management; and the management of specific indicators according to category. <a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/gstc-recognized-standards-for-hotels/www.turismo-sostenible.co.cr." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">More information on the CST program</a>.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-10 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-10"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-1d6a19759d3b11201 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_1d6a19759d3b11201"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="1d6a19759d3b11201" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-10" data-target="#1d6a19759d3b11201" href="#1d6a19759d3b11201"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">EarthCheck Evaluate and Company Standard</span></a></h4></div><div id="1d6a19759d3b11201" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_1d6a19759d3b11201"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-754 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="EarthCheck 150x150" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/EarthCheck_150x150.jpg" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-754 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/EarthCheck_150x150.jpg" alt="EarthCheck 150x150" width="120" height="120" /></noscript>The purpose of <a href="http://www.earthcheck.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">EarthCheck</a>. The purpose of the EarthCheck Company Standard is to provide organisations with a framework for environmental and social sustainability. This Standard includes requirements specific to other management systems, such as quality, environment, occupational health and safety, risk management and corporate social reporting, and its elements can be integrated with those of other management systems. The Standard ensures a high level of alignment to ISO14001, ISO50001, ISO26000, ISO9001, the GRI, the HCMI, the SDGs, and the GSTC Criteria. EarthCheck Evaluate assesses an operator’s economic, social and environmental impact.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-11 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-11"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-900b92e969e61e536 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_900b92e969e61e536"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="900b92e969e61e536" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-11" data-target="#900b92e969e61e536" href="#900b92e969e61e536"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Eco-Certification Malta Standard</span></a></h4></div><div id="900b92e969e61e536" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_900b92e969e61e536"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-24905 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%2083%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="83" height="120" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Malta-Eco-Certification-logo-207x300.jpg" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-24905 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Malta-Eco-Certification-logo-207x300.jpg" alt="" width="83" height="120" /></noscript>The <a href="http://www.mta.com.mt/eco-certification" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ECO C</a><a href="http://www.mta.com.mt/eco-certification" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ertification</a> is Malta’s national scheme for ensuring the environmental, socioeconomic, and cultural sustainability of hotels and farmhouses on the Maltese Islands. The scheme was launched by the Malta Tourism Authority in 2002. The criteria were updated in 2008, 2012 and again in 2019. The new criteria follow a shift from an environmental scheme to a sustainable scheme covering environmental, social, cultural, economic, quality and health & safety. The main areas covered by the current criteria are: Sustainability management systems; Waste management; Purchasing; Control of chemicals; Energy; Water; Air quality; Noise; Building and green areas; Local culture & national surroundings; and Communication with customers.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-12 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-12"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-e04b252554e3b7831 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_e04b252554e3b7831"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="e04b252554e3b7831" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-12" data-target="#e04b252554e3b7831" href="#e04b252554e3b7831"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Ecostars</span></a></h4></div><div id="e04b252554e3b7831" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_e04b252554e3b7831"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-509008 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20201%2052'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="201" height="52" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Ecostars_Logo-400x103.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-509008 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Ecostars_Logo-400x103.png" alt="" width="201" height="52" /></noscript><br /> <a href="https://www.ecostars.org/">Ecostars</a> is a hotel-specific sustainability program that awards eco-stars based on a hotel’s environmental impact per stay. The program’s “21st-century evaluation methodology” combines digitalization and objective ESG evaluation by leveraging on cutting-edge technology and statistical analysis to assess quantitative dimensions, supplemented by adherence to Ecostars standards.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-13 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-13"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-0d6416efffabe38a1 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_0d6416efffabe38a1"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="0d6416efffabe38a1" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-13" data-target="#0d6416efffabe38a1" href="#0d6416efffabe38a1"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Ecotourism Australia’s Standards</span></a></h4></div><div id="0d6416efffabe38a1" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_0d6416efffabe38a1"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-322512 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20200%2094'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="200" height="94" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Eco-Tourism-Australia-logo-1.jpg" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-322512 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Eco-Tourism-Australia-logo-1.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="94" /></noscript><a href="http://www.ecotourism.org.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ecotourism </a><a href="http://www.ecotourism.org.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Australia (EA)</a> is a non-government, not-for-profit organisation, established in 1991, that promotes and supports the eco and sustainable tourism industry in Australia through building capacity and actively promoting sustainable tourism operations and systems. Our key program – ECO Certification – was the world’s first national ecotourism certification program. Our ECO Certification Standards and Sustainable Tourism Certification Standards are recognised by GSTC.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-14 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-14"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-a9d9ef3d096f0f2fd fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_a9d9ef3d096f0f2fd"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="a9d9ef3d096f0f2fd" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-14" data-target="#a9d9ef3d096f0f2fd" href="#a9d9ef3d096f0f2fd"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Ecotourism Kenya Standard for Tourism Accommodation Facilities</span></a></h4></div><div id="a9d9ef3d096f0f2fd" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_a9d9ef3d096f0f2fd"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-1850 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="Ecoratinglogo150" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Ecoratinglogo150-150x150.jpg" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-1850 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Ecoratinglogo150-150x150.jpg" alt="Ecoratinglogo150" width="120" height="120" /></noscript>The <a href="http://www.ecotourismkenya.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ecotourism Kenya</a> Eco-rating Certification Scheme is designed to certify as sustainable accommodations of various types throughout Kenya. This is part of Ecotourism Kenya’s efforts to make nature- and wildlife-based tourism more and more sustainable by applying localized standards that adhere to the universal principles included within the GSTC Criteria.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-15 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-15"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-e9c7ccdcf8f9c9acb fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_e9c7ccdcf8f9c9acb"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="e9c7ccdcf8f9c9acb" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-15" data-target="#e9c7ccdcf8f9c9acb" href="#e9c7ccdcf8f9c9acb"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Global Ecosphere Retreats (GER)</span></a></h4></div><div id="e9c7ccdcf8f9c9acb" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_e9c7ccdcf8f9c9acb"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-33476 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Global-Ecosphere-Retreats-GER-logo-150x150.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-33476 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Global-Ecosphere-Retreats-GER-logo-150x150.png" alt="" width="120" height="120" /></noscript><br /> The Long Run’s <a href="https://www.thelongrun.org/about/#ger-standard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Global Ecosphere Retreats® (GER) standard</a> covers all 4C (conservation, community, culture and commerce) aspects of sustainability in tourism with equal weight. The standard is a vehicle to support nature-based tourism businesses’ in their journey of continuous improvement. Likewise, it is not only about businesses merely mitigating their negative environmental impacts but about positively impacting the well-being of the planet and the people.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-16 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-16"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-15cc070e407746dcc fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_15cc070e407746dcc"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="15cc070e407746dcc" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-16" data-target="#15cc070e407746dcc" href="#15cc070e407746dcc"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Green Hospitality</span></a></h4></div><div id="15cc070e407746dcc" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_15cc070e407746dcc"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-515024 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20215%2095'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="215" height="95" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/unnamed-1.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-515024 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/unnamed-1.png" alt="" width="215" height="95" /></noscript><a href="https://greenhospitality.ie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GreenHospitality.ie</a> started in 2006 in partnership with the Irish EPA and has grown to be the pre-eminent Irish based 3rd party environmental and sustainability certification and recognition programme across the country. It supports all types and sizes of tourism businesses and operates 3 distinct programmes – Green Hospitality Standard is GSTC recognized and it is used for the Platinum Award for all businesses, our Environmental Certification Award (Eco-label, Silver, Gold) for larger businesses and GREENMark recognition for small businesses. The programmes and awards are based on and support national and international standards including the GSTC Criteria, UN SDG’s, EU Eco-Label, UNWTO Global Tourism Plastics Initiative and provide world-class Benchmarking, KPI’s and Carbon Footprint calculations, utilising the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance measurement methodologies.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-17 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-17"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-a8e6498553d450453 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_a8e6498553d450453"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="a8e6498553d450453" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-17" data-target="#a8e6498553d450453" href="#a8e6498553d450453"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Green Growth 2050 Standard</span></a></h4></div><div id="a8e6498553d450453" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_a8e6498553d450453"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-1163 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="GreenGrowth" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/GreenGrowth.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-1163 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/GreenGrowth.png" alt="GreenGrowth" width="120" height="120" /></noscript></p><p><a href="http://www.greengrowth2050.travel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Green Growth 2050</a> has been developed to meet the needs of tourism and travel businesses seeking today’s solutions to the issues driving social, cultural and environmental change. The Green Growth 2050 Global Standard and Sustainability Reporting Framework is an international online solution designed to allow travel and tourism organisations to assess the overall sustainability and CSR performance of their existing individual properties and portfolios.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-18 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-18"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-0639a8b1daffae7ac fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_0639a8b1daffae7ac"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="0639a8b1daffae7ac" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-18" data-target="#0639a8b1daffae7ac" href="#0639a8b1daffae7ac"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Green Key Criteria</span></a></h4></div><div id="0639a8b1daffae7ac" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_0639a8b1daffae7ac"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-1522 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%2095%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="Green Key logo in color with text" width="95" height="120" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Green_Key_logo_in_color_with_text-238x300.jpg" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-1522 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Green_Key_logo_in_color_with_text-238x300.jpg" alt="Green Key logo in color with text" width="95" height="120" /></noscript>The <a href="https://www.greenkey.global/criteria" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Green Key</a> award is a leading standard for excellence in the field of environmental responsibility and sustainable operation within the tourism industry. This eco-label represents a commitment by businesses that their premises adhere to the strict criteria set by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE). A Green Key stands for the promise to its guests that by opting to stay with the Green Key establishment, they are helping to make a difference on an environmental level. Green Key is a voluntary eco-label awarded to hotels and other establishments in 65 countries.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-19 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-19"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-374b4f0496a1d8f53 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_374b4f0496a1d8f53"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="374b4f0496a1d8f53" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-19" data-target="#374b4f0496a1d8f53" href="#374b4f0496a1d8f53"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Green Key Eco-Rating</span></a></h4></div><div id="374b4f0496a1d8f53" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_374b4f0496a1d8f53"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-613 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20155%2097'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="155" height="97" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/31GreenKeyLogo-200x125.jpg" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-613 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/31GreenKeyLogo-200x125.jpg" alt="" width="155" height="97" /></noscript><a href="http://www.greenkeyglobal.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Green Key Global</a> is a leading international environmental certification body offering a suite of sustainability programs designed specifically for the lodging industry. For more than 20 years its flagship program, the Green Key Eco-Rating Program, has been evaluating, auditing and certifying lodging properties based on their commitment to sustainable operations. In support of this, Green Key Global also works diligently to educate members on the value these initiatives have on an environmental, social, cultural and economic level. An affordable, comprehensive assessment for independent and branded properties of all sizes, the Green Key Program strives to inspire and complement ongoing CSR activities of its members.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-20 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-20"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-d1ad56057d680893e fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_d1ad56057d680893e"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="d1ad56057d680893e" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-20" data-target="#d1ad56057d680893e" href="#d1ad56057d680893e"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Green Star Hotel Standard</span></a></h4></div><div id="d1ad56057d680893e" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_d1ad56057d680893e"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-762 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/gsh logo high res mit r-150x150.jpg" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-762 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/gsh logo high res mit r-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="120" height="120" /></noscript><a href="http://www.greenstarhotel.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Green Star Hotel</a> Certificate for tourist’s accommodation businesses is awarded to tourist accommodations in Egypt for their commitment in the field of environmentally friendly management and social responsibility. The Green Star Hotel Certification Programme is a national certification and capacity building programme under the patronage of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism. It has been developed as a public private project between the key stakeholders from the German and Egyptian tourism market , the Egyptian tourism authorities and the German International Cooperation to enhance the quality and environmental awareness and raise the competiveness and environmental performance of the Egyptian tourist accommodation industry. By starting with the key sector in the Egyptian tourism industry, the hotel sector, a first step is taken to move the whole tourism sector towards more sustainability. On the long run, other sectors such as cruise ships and diving should follow.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-21 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-21"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-83fdda2e29da6fda2 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_83fdda2e29da6fda2"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="83fdda2e29da6fda2" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-21" data-target="#83fdda2e29da6fda2" href="#83fdda2e29da6fda2"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">GreenSign Catalog Standard</span></a></h4></div><div id="83fdda2e29da6fda2" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_83fdda2e29da6fda2"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-44012 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%2091'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="120" height="91" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greensign_logo-300x227.jpg" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-44012 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greensign_logo-300x227.jpg" alt="" width="120" height="91" /></noscript>The <a href="https://www.greensign.de/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GreenSign</a> program was created for the hotel industry by GreenSign Institut GmbH and is based in Berlin, Germany. With many hotels in 15 countries using this standard, GreenSign is also represented outside of Germany, mainly in Europe. Almost 100 criteria in the GreenSign catalog standard offer the opportunity to combine ecology, economy and social responsibility without sacrificing comfort for guests. The standard covers the areas of management and communication, the environment (energy, water, waste), biodiversity and cultural heritage, purchasing, regionality and mobility, quality management and sustainable development, and social and economic responsibility.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-22 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-22"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-ecb9a05fbf1a627cc fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_ecb9a05fbf1a627cc"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="ecb9a05fbf1a627cc" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-22" data-target="#ecb9a05fbf1a627cc" href="#ecb9a05fbf1a627cc"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">GreenStep Sustainable Tourism Standard</span></a></h4></div><div id="ecb9a05fbf1a627cc" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_ecb9a05fbf1a627cc"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-35038 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20200%2040'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="200" height="40" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GreenStep-Sustainable-Tourism-300x60.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-35038 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GreenStep-Sustainable-Tourism-300x60.png" alt="" width="200" height="40" /></noscript></p><p><a href="https://greensteptourism.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GreenStep’s Sustainable Tourism</a> standard is used by GreenStep Solutions in their assessment and certification program which provides tools, resources, and consultative support to destinations and businesses across the tourism industry. The Sustainable Tourism standard enables tourism businesses to measure their sustainability performance in several key categories; management, social, economic, natural, cultural, and environmental.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-23 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-23"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-475cd30f01c0e4452 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_475cd30f01c0e4452"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="475cd30f01c0e4452" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-23" data-target="#475cd30f01c0e4452" href="#475cd30f01c0e4452"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Green Tourism Criteria</span></a></h4></div><div id="475cd30f01c0e4452" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_475cd30f01c0e4452"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-1035862 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20206%20109'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="Green Tourism Criteria Gains GSTC-Recognized Standard Status" width="206" height="109" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Green-Tourism-logo-green.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-1035862 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Green-Tourism-logo-green.png" alt="Green Tourism Criteria Gains GSTC-Recognized Standard Status" width="206" height="109" /></noscript><span style="font-weight: 400;">Green Tourism has been at the forefront of championing sustainable tourism since 1997. As a world-leading sustainability standard with a 3,000-strong global membership, our reason for being is to empower the tourism and hospitality industry to raise its sustainability standards. We provide manageable ways for businesses to adopt more sustainable activities and help to embed responsible and sustainable practices across the visitor economy.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our GreenCheck</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">TM</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> assessment is based on our three key pillars of People, Places, and Our Planet, and aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Every assessment is verified by our qualified assessors – making it </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">the</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> trusted sustainable tourism benchmark. </span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-24 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-24"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-be4506c540ec8eff5 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_be4506c540ec8eff5"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="be4506c540ec8eff5" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-24" data-target="#be4506c540ec8eff5" href="#be4506c540ec8eff5"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Hostelling International’s Quality and Sustainability Standard</span></a></h4></div><div id="be4506c540ec8eff5" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_be4506c540ec8eff5"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-24034 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%2086%20119'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="86" height="119" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Hi_Badge_QS_high-18JUL2019-e1565324639405-216x300.jpg" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-24034 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Hi_Badge_QS_high-18JUL2019-e1565324639405-216x300.jpg" alt="" width="86" height="119" /></noscript><a href="http://www.hihostels.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hostelling International</a>, and its member associations commit to intensifying their efforts to achieve a worldwide network of sustainable organisations and hostels. In line with its internationally adopted sustainability charter, HI has developed HI-Q&S (Hostelling International Quality & Sustainability), a label that stands for a commitment to provide an experience of high quality, with a positive effect on local economy, communities and the environment. The accreditation is based on assessment criteria aiming to: demonstrate effective sustainable management; maximise social and economic benefits to the local community, cultural heritage and environment and minimise negative impacts; conserve biodiversity, ecosystems and landscapes. The HI-Q&S standards engage hostellers in a viable, equitable and bearable way of travelling that supports HI’s values of authenticity, inclusivity, learning and understanding and sustainability.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-25 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-25"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-a36b24eef5cc6e9bd fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_a36b24eef5cc6e9bd"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="a36b24eef5cc6e9bd" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-25" data-target="#a36b24eef5cc6e9bd" href="#a36b24eef5cc6e9bd"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Hoteles más Verdes (AHT) Standard</span></a></h4></div><div id="a36b24eef5cc6e9bd" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_a36b24eef5cc6e9bd"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-859 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="hotelesMasVerdes logo RGB" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/hotelesMasVerdes_logo_RGB-150x150.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-859 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/hotelesMasVerdes_logo_RGB-150x150.png" alt="hotelesMasVerdes logo RGB" width="120" height="120" /></noscript><br /> <a href="http://www.hotelesmasverdes.com.ar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hoteles más Verdes</a> (“Greener Hotels”) is the Sustainability Certification Program of the Asociación de Hoteles de Turismo de Argentina (AHT) that promotes the adoption of sustainable tourism good practices in the hospitality industry since 2010.The program certifies with the Eco-label “Hoteles más Verdes” those hotel companies that prove by auditing good practices of ethical, environmental and socially responsible management with its stakeholders and the host community of the destinations of Argentina.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-26 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-26"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-35c878288ed350fde fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_35c878288ed350fde"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="35c878288ed350fde" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-26" data-target="#35c878288ed350fde" href="#35c878288ed350fde"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Intertek’s Ecocheck Standard</span></a></h4></div><div id="35c878288ed350fde" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_35c878288ed350fde"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-548423 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20179%2054'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="Intertek Cristal" width="179" height="54" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/ITK_Cristal_Logo_BLK_YELL.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-548423 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/ITK_Cristal_Logo_BLK_YELL.png" alt="Intertek Cristal" width="179" height="54" /></noscript>The EcoCheck Standard is designed to allow hotels to demonstrate both a meaningful commitment and verifiable results with regard to sustainability. The GSTC-Recognized standard is used in EcoCheck modules that combine the expertise of our global network of consultants with the ECristal online management system that allows clients to track continuous improvement and capture key sustainability data. For further information <a href="https://www.cristalstandards.com/ecocheck">click here.</a></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-27 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-27"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-1bdd74a162278e4b8 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_1bdd74a162278e4b8"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="1bdd74a162278e4b8" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-27" data-target="#1bdd74a162278e4b8" href="#1bdd74a162278e4b8"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Mauritian Standard on Sustainable Tourism: Blue Oasis</span></a></h4></div><div id="1bdd74a162278e4b8" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_1bdd74a162278e4b8"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="aligning wp-image-29807 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%2095%20150'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="95" height="150" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Mauritius-Blue-Oasis-Logo-189x300.png" /><noscript><img class="aligning wp-image-29807 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Mauritius-Blue-Oasis-Logo-189x300.png" alt="" width="95" height="150" /></noscript></p><p>The Mauritian Standard on Sustainable Tourism (MS 165:2019), Blue Oasis, was developed to guide the sustainable development of the tourism industry in Mauritius.The focus of the Sustainability Tourism Standard is to address requirements of the environmental impacts and its effect on land, air, water and other organism and ecosystem of the island. The social-cultural impacts that affect local communities, social structure and cultures as well as economic impacts categorised as direct, indirect or induced. These requirements to be measured, monitored and evaluated for continual improvement of the sustainability of the tourism industry in Mauritius.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-28 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-28"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-0a00dbe25fe75d046 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_0a00dbe25fe75d046"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="0a00dbe25fe75d046" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-28" data-target="#0a00dbe25fe75d046" href="#0a00dbe25fe75d046"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Miosotis Azores Standard</span></a></h4></div><div id="0a00dbe25fe75d046" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_0a00dbe25fe75d046"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-554739 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="logo_miosotis_azores" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_miosotis_azores-1.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-554739 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_miosotis_azores-1.png" alt="logo_miosotis_azores" width="120" height="120" /></noscript>The previous «Miosótis Azores» aimed to reward good sustainability practices in tourist accommodation in the Azores, evaluating three categories of environmental performance: Energy Management, Waste Management and Water Management.</p><p>This new version of the standard is based on the four pillars of the GSTC Criteria – Sustainable Management, Socioeconomic, Cultural and Environmental Principles.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-29 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-29"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-3a16b3de055f1a9eb fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_3a16b3de055f1a9eb"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="3a16b3de055f1a9eb" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-29" data-target="#3a16b3de055f1a9eb" href="#3a16b3de055f1a9eb"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Nature’s Best Sweden Standard</span></a></h4></div><div id="3a16b3de055f1a9eb" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_3a16b3de055f1a9eb"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-512907 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="Nature's best sweden" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Natures-best-sweden-GSTC-.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-512907 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Natures-best-sweden-GSTC-.png" alt="Nature's best sweden" width="120" height="120" /></noscript>Nature’s Best is a quality label for ecotourism that has been developed to promote sustainable tourism in Sweden. The label is awarded to companies that meet strict sustainability criteria, such as minimizing their impact on the environment, supporting local communities and economies, and providing authentic and meaningful experiences for visitors with care of natural and cultural values. The Nature’s Best label provides travelers with a trustworthy guarantee that they support sustainable tourism when choosing a Nature’s Best-labeled company.</p><p>The label was launched in 2002 by <a href="https://naturturismforetagen.se/">Naturturismföretagen</a> (the Swedish Nature and Ecotourism Association).</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-30 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-30"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-63610bbb6df015268 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_63610bbb6df015268"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="63610bbb6df015268" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-30" data-target="#63610bbb6df015268" href="#63610bbb6df015268"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Preferred by Nature Standard for Sustainable Travel Activities</span></a></h4></div><div id="63610bbb6df015268" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_63610bbb6df015268"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-30619 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20166%2080'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="166" height="80" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Preferred_by_Nature_logo-200x96.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-30619 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Preferred_by_Nature_logo-200x96.png" alt="" width="166" height="80" /></noscript></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Preferred by Nature Standard for Sustainable Travel Activities includes several core criteria that guide and encourage sustainable management practices by creating positive impact on people, nature, and climate. The Standard advocates for preserving biodiversity and ecosystems while fostering local economic development, cultural preservation, and heritage promotion, offering a holistic approach for travel organizations to embrace sustainable practices and enhance destination sustainability. The Standard is designed to apply to any travel organization, including Accommodations and Tour Operators seeking to measure, evaluate, and improve its sustainability performance, regardless of their size or type.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-31 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-31"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-5e554d4dabab0f147 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_5e554d4dabab0f147"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="5e554d4dabab0f147" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-31" data-target="#5e554d4dabab0f147" href="#5e554d4dabab0f147"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Qualmark Sustainable Tourism Business Criteria</span></a></h4></div><div id="5e554d4dabab0f147" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_5e554d4dabab0f147"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-624048 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20136%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="Qualmark" width="136" height="120" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Qualmark-Horizontal-1-300x264.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-624048 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Qualmark-Horizontal-1-300x264.png" alt="Qualmark" width="136" height="120" /></noscript><br /> Being GSTC-Recognized ensures Qualmark’s commitment towards sustainability to visitors traveling in New Zealand; and it guarantees that Qualmark’s Standard is aligned with universal criteria for sustainable management, social and economic benefits to the local community, cultural heritage preservation, and the reduction of pollution. Qualmark is New Zealand tourism’s official quality assurance organization focusing on the accommodation sector and visitor experiences, transport and activities.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-32 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-32"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-2b03646d0407803cf fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_2b03646d0407803cf"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="2b03646d0407803cf" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-32" data-target="#2b03646d0407803cf" href="#2b03646d0407803cf"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Sakura Quality An ESG Practice Standard</span></a></h4></div><div id="2b03646d0407803cf" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_2b03646d0407803cf"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-43709 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%2079%20131'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="79" height="131" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Sakura-Quality-An-ESG-Practice-logo-182x300.jpg" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-43709 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Sakura-Quality-An-ESG-Practice-logo-182x300.jpg" alt="" width="79" height="131" /></noscript>The ‘Sakura Quality An ESG Practice Standard’ for hotels and ryokans in Japan. Sakura Quality is a joint quality certification system between Tourism Quality Assurance Association (TQAA), tourism regions, and DMOs in partnership with TQAA. It is a quality certification system that defines “safety, security, and sincerity” as “quality” that is required of accommodation facilities and reflects customer needs. TQAA manages the standards, manages the logo mark, conducts surveys and research on customer needs, trains surveyors, is the certification body, and operates “third-party committees” consisting of members who are neutral, objective, and highly knowledgeable, to support quality certification systems by DMOs and other organizations.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-33 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-33"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-0526f0b828300424b fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_0526f0b828300424b"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="0526f0b828300424b" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-33" data-target="#0526f0b828300424b" href="#0526f0b828300424b"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Seychelles Sustainable Tourism Label (SSTL) Criteria</span></a></h4></div><div id="0526f0b828300424b" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_0526f0b828300424b"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-18536 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Seychelles-SSTL-logo-150x150.jpg" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-18536 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Seychelles-SSTL-logo-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="120" height="120" /></noscript></p><p>The Seychelles Sustainable Tourism Label which is a certification programme aims to enhance the quality and sustainability of visitors’ experiences by mitigating tourism’s negative economic, environmental and social impacts on the destination and contributing to the preservation of natural and cultural treasures for the future generations of Seychelles.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-34 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-34"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-c5a15249acef6a7dd fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_c5a15249acef6a7dd"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="c5a15249acef6a7dd" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-34" data-target="#c5a15249acef6a7dd" href="#c5a15249acef6a7dd"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">SOCOTEC’s Sustainability Management System for Hotels</span></a></h4></div><div id="c5a15249acef6a7dd" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_c5a15249acef6a7dd"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-186865 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20100%20100'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="100" height="100" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/SOCOTEC-logo-150x150.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-186865 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/SOCOTEC-logo-150x150.png" alt="" width="100" height="100" /></noscript><br /> The Sustainability Management System for the Hotel Industry provided by SOCOTEC Certification International helps hotel businesses achieve best practices in sustainable tourism. SOCOTEC Certification International is a subsidiary of the SOCOTEC group, that provides management system assessments and accredited ISO certification services to organizations around the world since 1995.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-35 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-35"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-4721f720c78d07fd0 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_4721f720c78d07fd0"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="4721f720c78d07fd0" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-35" data-target="#4721f720c78d07fd0" href="#4721f720c78d07fd0"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Sustainable Berlin Standard </span></a></h4></div><div id="4721f720c78d07fd0" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_4721f720c78d07fd0"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-366796 size-medium alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20300%2097'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="300" height="97" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/VisitBerlin-featured-image-web--e1682981961615-300x97.jpg" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-366796 size-medium alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/VisitBerlin-featured-image-web--e1682981961615-300x97.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="97" /></noscript><a href="https://www.visitberlin.de/en/sustainable-berlin"><em>visitBerlin</em></a> promotes the sustainable development of Berlin’s tourism and events industry with the programs “Sustainable Tourism Berlin” for suppliers in the leisure tourism industry and “Sustainable Meetings Berlin” for partners from the business travel tourism industry. The 65 process-oriented criteria for the standards have been developed on the basis of internationally recognized frameworks like ISO-standards, the German national sustainability code (Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitskodex) and the GSTC Industry Criteria.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-36 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-36"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-d3c9e2db863b0bfe5 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_d3c9e2db863b0bfe5"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="d3c9e2db863b0bfe5" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-36" data-target="#d3c9e2db863b0bfe5" href="#d3c9e2db863b0bfe5"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Sustainable Tourism Network – GSTC Industry Criteria</span></a></h4></div><div id="d3c9e2db863b0bfe5" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_d3c9e2db863b0bfe5"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-25809 size-fusion-200 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20200%2075'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="200" height="75" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Sustainable-Travel-Ireland-logo-200x75.jpg" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-25809 size-fusion-200 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Sustainable-Travel-Ireland-logo-200x75.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="75" /></noscript><a href="https://www.sustainabletourismnetwork.ie/">Sustainable Tourism Network</a> (formely Sustainable Travel Ireland / Ecotourism Ireland) is Ireland’s leading and longest-running body for the promotion of sustainable and responsible tourism, training and certifying businesses for over 10 years. Founded in 2009, Ecotourism Ireland set out to develop ecotourism in Ireland, and to highlight the best of what the country had to offer whilst ensuring its heritage and environment were preserved for this and future generations. Today, Sustainable Travel Ireland has the same mission but broader, aiming to drive the development of a new, sustainable model for ALL tourism in Ireland, and has formally adopted the GSTC Industry Criteria to be used in Ireland by accommodations and tour operators.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-37 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-37"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-d2b938475e60af0e6 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_d2b938475e60af0e6"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="d2b938475e60af0e6" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-37" data-target="#d2b938475e60af0e6" href="#d2b938475e60af0e6"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Thailand’s Green Hotel Plus</span></a></h4></div><div id="d2b938475e60af0e6" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_d2b938475e60af0e6"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img class=" wp-image-1337198 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20135%20135'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="Thailand’s Green Hotel Plus" width="135" height="135" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GH-white_comp.jpg" /><noscript><img class=" wp-image-1337198 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GH-white_comp.jpg" alt="Thailand’s Green Hotel Plus" width="135" height="135" /></noscript>For over 10 years, the Green Hotel project, lead by the Department of Climate Change and Environment of Thailand (DCCE), has worked to enhance Thai hotels’ resource efficiency and environmental management, and prepare them for international environmental standard assessment. The Green Hotel Standards journey (through Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards) focuses on improving sustainability practices and reducing the environmental impact of hotels in Thailand. The GSTC-Recognised Green Hotel Plus Standard (ENG/Thai) builds on this foundation, covering management, staff, child and animal welfare and climate. The GH Plus enables Thai hotels to seamlessly transition from national to international sustainability standards.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-38 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-38"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-8a0a2ed791801edf3 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_8a0a2ed791801edf3"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="8a0a2ed791801edf3" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-38" data-target="#8a0a2ed791801edf3" href="#8a0a2ed791801edf3"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">TOFTigers Initiative’s Pug Standard</span></a></h4></div><div id="8a0a2ed791801edf3" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_8a0a2ed791801edf3"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-1269 size-fusion-200 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20200%2073'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="TOFT logo new White background Jan 2012" width="200" height="73" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/TOFT_logo_new_White_background__Jan_2012-200x73.jpg" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-1269 size-fusion-200 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/TOFT_logo_new_White_background__Jan_2012-200x73.jpg" alt="TOFT logo new White background Jan 2012" width="200" height="73" /></noscript>The India & South Asian based nature tourism focused organisation, <a href="http://www.toftigers.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-uw-styling-context="true">TOFTigers</a> has its PUG Eco- rating certification recognised as a part of its attempts to help use the booming market in nature tourism across India and South Asia as a tool for conservation of forest and wildlife, including tigers. Alongside over 220 of the world’s best known tour operators, agents and lodge members, its promotes a purchasing supply chain campaign to promote better tourism, better training and better monitoring and advises Governments, States, parks, providers and visitors on best practice in nature tourism, to ensure a fair and equitable future for nature, visitors and bordering park communities.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-39 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-39"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-aaac1dfa3a41eff91 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_aaac1dfa3a41eff91"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="aaac1dfa3a41eff91" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-39" data-target="#aaac1dfa3a41eff91" href="#aaac1dfa3a41eff91"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">TourCert Industry Criteria</span></a></h4></div><div id="aaac1dfa3a41eff91" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_aaac1dfa3a41eff91"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-18374 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20221%2070'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="221" height="70" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/TourCert_newlogo.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-18374 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/TourCert_newlogo.png" alt="" width="221" height="70" /></noscript><br /> All criteria catalogues of TourCert are based on the international quality and environmental management standards according to ISO and EMAS as well as the ISO guidelines for corporate responsibility (ISO 26000) and are also oriented to the international regulations of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC).</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-40 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-40"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-5c5e7d5191b89cc99 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_5c5e7d5191b89cc99"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="5c5e7d5191b89cc99" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-40" data-target="#5c5e7d5191b89cc99" href="#5c5e7d5191b89cc99"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Travelife Standard for Accommodation</span></a></h4></div><div id="5c5e7d5191b89cc99" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_5c5e7d5191b89cc99"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-29811 size-fusion-200 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20200%2090'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="200" height="90" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Travelife-Accommodation-Sustainability-Horizontal-Blue-200x90.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-29811 size-fusion-200 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Travelife-Accommodation-Sustainability-Horizontal-Blue-200x90.png" alt="" width="200" height="90" /></noscript>Travelife for Accommodation is an internationally recognised sustainability certification programme that helps its accommodation customers improve their social, environmental and economic impacts. Travelife Certified properties can then use the certification mark to promote their sustainability achievements to consumers, via their marketing materials and <a href="http://www.staybetterplaces.com/">www.staybetterplaces.com/</a>, an online website where people can search for Travelife Certified properties.</p><h6 class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" data-fontsize="12" data-lineheight="18px"><i>Note from GSTC: The section “About Travelife Standard for </i><i>Accommodation</i><i>” is a description by Travelife for Accommodations and not by GSTC, and therefore any statements or terminology expressed in this section should not be taken as an endorsement or recommendation by GSTC.</i></h6></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-41 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-41"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-1416fcb04e673e1f5 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_1416fcb04e673e1f5"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="1416fcb04e673e1f5" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-41" data-target="#1416fcb04e673e1f5" href="#1416fcb04e673e1f5"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Türkiye Sustainable Tourism lndustry Criteria (TR-I)</span></a></h4></div><div id="1416fcb04e673e1f5" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_1416fcb04e673e1f5"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-507913 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/ST-Main-Program-Logo_EN-300x300.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-507913 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/ST-Main-Program-Logo_EN-300x300.png" alt="" width="120" height="120" /></noscript>Türkiye Sustainable Tourism lndustry Criteria (TR-I) is the main component used in Türkiye’s Sustainable Tourism Program and have been built to ensure sustainable growth of the Turkish tourism industry. TR-I includes both criteria that comply with the social and cultural structure of Türkiye and globally recognized sustainable tourism criteria. TR-I standard was introduced under the guidance of the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Türkiye Tourism Promotion and Development Agency (TGA). TR-I have adopted all GSTC Industry Criteria and will be revised according to updating period of the GSTC Criteria.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-42 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-42"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-28b1baaa5f45ed5bd fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_28b1baaa5f45ed5bd"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="28b1baaa5f45ed5bd" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-42" data-target="#28b1baaa5f45ed5bd" href="#28b1baaa5f45ed5bd"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">GSTC Criteria</span></a></h4></div><div id="28b1baaa5f45ed5bd" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_28b1baaa5f45ed5bd"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img class="wp-image-507923 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GSTC-square-logo-1-300x300.png" /><noscript><img class="wp-image-507923 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GSTC-square-logo-1-300x300.png" alt="" width="120" height="120" /></noscript><br /> The GSTC Criteria serve as the basis for determining whether other standards are “GSTC Recognized”. That means that by definition the GSTC Criteria can be considered “Recognized.” It also means that any Certification Body that uses the GSTC Criteria for their certification program is using a GSTC Recognized standard. Please note that GSTC Accredited means that a Certification Body uses the GSTC Criteria or another GSTC-Recognized set of standards to certify, AND has undergone a rigorous verification process by the GSTC to verify that their certification program is neutral and competent.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling" style="--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-background-color:#f5f5f5;" ><div class="fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-center fusion-flex-justify-content-center" style="max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% / 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% / 2 );"><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-43 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-3" style="--awb-content-alignment:center;"><h2></h2><h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: black;">GSTC-Recognized Standards for</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> Hotels</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #000000;">(not participating in the GSTC </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;">Market Access Program</span></strong><strong><span style="color: black;">)</span></strong></h2></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-44 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-43"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-15c0447fee2b11779 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_15c0447fee2b11779"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="15c0447fee2b11779" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-43" data-target="#15c0447fee2b11779" href="#15c0447fee2b11779"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Green Globe Standard</span></a></h4></div><div id="15c0447fee2b11779" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_15c0447fee2b11779"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-964661 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/green-globe-logo-120-66x66.png 66w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/green-globe-logo-120-100x100.png 100w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/green-globe-logo-120.png 120w" data-lazy-sizes="(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/green-globe-logo-120.png" /><noscript><img decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-964661 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/green-globe-logo-120.png" alt="" width="120" height="120" srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/green-globe-logo-120-66x66.png 66w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/green-globe-logo-120-100x100.png 100w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/green-globe-logo-120.png 120w" sizes="(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px" /></noscript>The <a href="https://greenglobe.com/standard/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Green Globe Standard</a> has been developed and improved over the past 25 years and includes 44 core criteria supported by over 380 compliance indicators. The applicable indicators vary by type of certification, geographical area as well as local factors. The entire Green Globe Standard is reviewed and updated twice per calendar year. Green Globe is active in harmonizing with other established sustainability certification programs around the world. The process of harmonization contributes to maintaining core criteria and at the same time addresses regional issues through the adoption of locally developed standards. The Green Globe Standard is based on the following international standards and agreements: GSTC Criteria; Baseline Criteria of the Sustainable Tourism Certification Network of the Americas; Agenda 21 and principles for Sustainable Development endorsed by 182 Governments at the United Nations Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992; ISO 9001 / 14001 / 19011.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-4 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling" style="--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;" ><div class="fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-center fusion-flex-justify-content-center" style="max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% / 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% / 2 );"><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-45 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-4" style="--awb-content-alignment:center;"><h2></h2><h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: black;">GSTC-Recognized Standards for</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> Hotels</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #000000;">(not eligible for the GSTC </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;">Market Access Program</span></strong><strong><span style="color: black;">)</span></strong></h2></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-46 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-44"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-3c8ac9eb1a1af2883 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_3c8ac9eb1a1af2883"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="3c8ac9eb1a1af2883" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-44" data-target="#3c8ac9eb1a1af2883" href="#3c8ac9eb1a1af2883"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">The Ascott Limited</span></a></h4></div><div id="3c8ac9eb1a1af2883" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_3c8ac9eb1a1af2883"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img decoding="async" class="aligning wp-image-508892 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20100%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="100" height="120" data-lazy-srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-83x100.png 83w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-200x240.png 200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-250x300.png 250w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-400x480.png 400w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-600x721.png 600w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-768x922.png 768w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-800x961.png 800w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-1200x1441.png 1200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-1279x1536.png 1279w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI.png 1626w" data-lazy-sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-200x240.png" /><noscript><img decoding="async" class="aligning wp-image-508892 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-200x240.png" alt="" width="100" height="120" srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-83x100.png 83w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-200x240.png 200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-250x300.png 250w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-400x480.png 400w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-600x721.png 600w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-768x922.png 768w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-800x961.png 800w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-1200x1441.png 1200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI-1279x1536.png 1279w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ascott-Limited-Logo-with-tagline-A-member-of-CLI.png 1626w" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" /></noscript></p><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-52"><p>The <a href="http://www.discoverasr.com/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.discoverasr.com&source=gmail&ust=1686895453591000&usg=AOvVaw0fyRLQbo0rlmu1jTDuawEJ">Ascott Limited</a> (Ascott) has gained GSTC-Recognized Status for its system adopting the <a href="https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.gstcouncil.org%2fgstc%2dcriteria%2fgstc%2dindustry%2dcriteria%2f&umid=f19ddf9d-64f9-4548-adf4-ab0129b00be9&auth=8fbbedc41bfef05324d93f4279f1e2db04571cba-0d9cbc24d6181c69e21eb6b2b2bfe02a340c4b36" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url%3Dhttps%253a%252f%252fwww.gstcouncil.org%252fgstc%252dcriteria%252fgstc%252dindustry%252dcriteria%252f%26umid%3Df19ddf9d-64f9-4548-adf4-ab0129b00be9%26auth%3D8fbbedc41bfef05324d93f4279f1e2db04571cba-0d9cbc24d6181c69e21eb6b2b2bfe02a340c4b36&source=gmail&ust=1686895453591000&usg=AOvVaw0qfmQC6fGkvqKIs-IAYMT4">GSTC Industry Criteria</a>. The stated scope and applicability of the GSTC Industry Criteria includes corporate offices and all managed branded properties globally.</p><p>Ascott, a lodging business unit wholly owned by CapitaLand Investment, is a hospitality company with more than 920 properties globally, spanning over 220 cities across more than 40 countries. <a href="https://www.discoverasr.com/en/ascott-cares" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.discoverasr.com/en/ascott-cares&source=gmail&ust=1686895453591000&usg=AOvVaw3Uk4vgWF3UTWxb7WGkfIy0">Ascott CARES</a>, its sustainability programme, which is a part of the System, is centered around five pillars representing the acronym CARES – Community, Alliance, Respect, Environment and Supply chain.</p></div><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-53"><p><em>If you want to learn more about the technical information of GSTC Recognized Systems, please see <a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/List-of-GSTC-Recognized-Systems_oct2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</em></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-47 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-45"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-d5ef0bb10dbb17413 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_d5ef0bb10dbb17413"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="d5ef0bb10dbb17413" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-45" data-target="#d5ef0bb10dbb17413" href="#d5ef0bb10dbb17413"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Asian Ecotourism Standard for Accommodations (AESA)</span></a></h4></div><div id="d5ef0bb10dbb17413" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_d5ef0bb10dbb17413"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-24908 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900-66x66.png 66w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900-150x150.png 150w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900-200x200.png 200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900-300x300.png 300w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900-400x400.png 400w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900-600x600.png 600w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900-768x768.png 768w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900-800x800.png 800w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900.png 900w" data-lazy-sizes="(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900-150x150.png" /><noscript><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-24908 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900-150x150.png" alt="" width="120" height="120" srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900-66x66.png 66w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900-150x150.png 150w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900-200x200.png 200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900-300x300.png 300w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900-400x400.png 400w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900-600x600.png 600w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900-768x768.png 768w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900-800x800.png 800w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/AEN_sqr-900.png 900w" sizes="(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px" /></noscript><br /> The stated scope of AESA is ecolodges and ecoresorts or nature-based lodges in the Asia Pacific. The standard is designed to help identify the authentic ecotourism lodging industry among others who claim they are ‘eco’ and guide Asia Pacific to realize SDGs with evidence while raising happiness index for both visitors and visited. Asian Ecotourism Network (AEN) is a registered not-for-profit trade association based in Bangkok Thailand with 5 country satellite offices in India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, and Philippines. The board comprises 17 countries in Asia and Pacific that makes AEN a unique network. It is a sub-global network of Global Ecotourism Network.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-48 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-46"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-badc7c2275748cd92 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_badc7c2275748cd92"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="badc7c2275748cd92" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-46" data-target="#badc7c2275748cd92" href="#badc7c2275748cd92"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Barceló ReGen Standards v1.0</span></a></h4></div><div id="badc7c2275748cd92" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_badc7c2275748cd92"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img decoding="async" class=" wp-image-1032812 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20220%2066'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="Barceló ReGen Standards v1.0 " width="220" height="66" data-lazy-srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo-200x60.png 200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo-300x90.png 300w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo-333x100.png 333w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo-400x120.png 400w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo-600x180.png 600w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo-768x231.png 768w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo-800x240.png 800w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo-1200x361.png 1200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo-1536x462.png 1536w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo.png 2262w" data-lazy-sizes="(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo.png" /><noscript><img decoding="async" class=" wp-image-1032812 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo.png" alt="Barceló ReGen Standards v1.0 " width="220" height="66" srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo-200x60.png 200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo-300x90.png 300w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo-333x100.png 333w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo-400x120.png 400w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo-600x180.png 600w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo-768x231.png 768w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo-800x240.png 800w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo-1200x361.png 1200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo-1536x462.png 1536w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/regen-logo.png 2262w" sizes="(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px" /></noscript>Barceló Hotel Group’s sustainabilty strategy confirms the company’s commitment to maximise the positive impact on the destinations in which it operates with the aim of actively developing a more regenerative tourism and participating in the creation of fairer societies, ensuring the well-being of people and care for the environment. A challenge that has defined the company’s activity since its foundation more than 90 years ago.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Barceló Hotel Group is the first Spanish hotel chain whose sustainability standards, known as Barceló ReGen Standards, are recognised by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC). This is a first step towards the consolidation of the group’s sustainability strategy and making its gradual implementation a reality in all hotels worldwide. An ambitious project of cultural transformation with the aim of consolidating its commitment to generate a positive impact in the places where it is present.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Barcelo’s sustainability standards are integrated into its own management system called Ser Barceló, which is aligned with </span><a href="https://www.barcelogrupo.com/content/dam/barcelo-group/barcel%C3%B3-responsive/2023_11%20Pol%C3%ADtica%20de%20Sostenibilidad_0001.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Barceló ReGen Sustainability Policy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and key international commitments that the company is subscribed to as United Nations Global Compact. Ser Barceló provides manuals, tools and continuous training for each operational department in order to achieve the implementation of the company’s quality standards, complying with sustainability commitments and guaranteeing excellence in customer service. To accomplish this, the management system features a digital platform that enables its effective execution across the company’s entire hotel portfolio.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-49 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-47"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-dcfe2f1adc144161a fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_dcfe2f1adc144161a"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="dcfe2f1adc144161a" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-47" data-target="#dcfe2f1adc144161a" href="#dcfe2f1adc144161a"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Centara EarthCare</span></a></h4></div><div id="dcfe2f1adc144161a" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_dcfe2f1adc144161a"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-33170 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/CHR-Earth-Care-Logo-66x66.jpg 66w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/CHR-Earth-Care-Logo-150x150.jpg 150w" data-lazy-sizes="(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/CHR-Earth-Care-Logo-150x150.jpg" /><noscript><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-33170 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/CHR-Earth-Care-Logo-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="120" height="120" srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/CHR-Earth-Care-Logo-66x66.jpg 66w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/CHR-Earth-Care-Logo-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px" /></noscript><br /> The <a href="https://www.centarahotelsresorts.com/sustainability">Centara EarthCare </a>is Centara’s internal sustainability standard, used by the group’s hotels and resorts for adherence to sustainable practices based on the <a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-criteria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-uw-styling-context="true">GSTC Criteria</a>. For tracking, measuring and improving in areas of environmental sustainability and social responsibility at property or multi-site level, Centara is using the <a href="https://www.gstcouncil.org/greenview-portal-gstc-recognized/" data-uw-styling-context="true">Greenview Portal</a>, which is a GSTC-Recognized System. The platform allows Centara to track, benchmark, report and improve on various aspects of environmental and social performance.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-50 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-48"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-4915162f018f41efd fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_4915162f018f41efd"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="4915162f018f41efd" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-48" data-target="#4915162f018f41efd" href="#4915162f018f41efd"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">European Ecotourism Labeling Standard (EETLS)</span></a></h4></div><div id="4915162f018f41efd" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_4915162f018f41efd"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-760 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20180%2084'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="180" height="84" data-lazy-srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/image011-200x94.png 200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/image011.png 231w" data-lazy-sizes="(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/image011.png" /><noscript><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-760 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/image011.png" alt="" width="180" height="84" srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/image011-200x94.png 200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/image011.png 231w" sizes="(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px" /></noscript>EETLS – the <a href="http://www.ecotourism-network.eu/en-ecotourism-standard/en-the-euro-eco-label-stand" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">European Ecotourism Labelling Standard</a> – is a baseline quality standard developed along the lines of the GSTC Criteria, for European Ecotourism. The EETLS is the result of a lengthy development and consultation process that documented international best practice leading to a set of criteria and indicators that are suitable for ensuring quality of ecotourism services. The EETLS aims to provide a Europe-wide dimension of ecotourism quality certification, offering the possibility for an EETLS-compliance sign integrated in the existing labels. The first version of the EETLS was developed under the ECO-DESTINET project, co-funded by the LLP-Leonardo programme of the European Commission, and has been revised by the ECOLNET team. Among the project partners, <a href="https://www.greekecotourism.org/#eetls" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">PRISMA and the affiliated NGO Hellenic Ecotourism Society</a> use standards based on EETLS (EETLS-GR 2nd) which is the current GSTC-Recognized Standard.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-51 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-49"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-6718990def1661a1d fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_6718990def1661a1d"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="6718990def1661a1d" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-49" data-target="#6718990def1661a1d" href="#6718990def1661a1d"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Greenview Portal</span></a></h4></div><div id="6718990def1661a1d" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_6718990def1661a1d"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-27348 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20280%2071'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="280" height="71" data-lazy-srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greenview-Portal-Logo-Green-200x50.png 200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greenview-Portal-Logo-Green-300x76.png 300w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greenview-Portal-Logo-Green-396x100.png 396w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greenview-Portal-Logo-Green-400x101.png 400w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greenview-Portal-Logo-Green-600x151.png 600w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greenview-Portal-Logo-Green-768x194.png 768w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greenview-Portal-Logo-Green-800x202.png 800w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greenview-Portal-Logo-Green.png 1002w" data-lazy-sizes="(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greenview-Portal-Logo-Green-300x76.png" /><noscript><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-27348 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greenview-Portal-Logo-Green-300x76.png" alt="" width="280" height="71" srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greenview-Portal-Logo-Green-200x50.png 200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greenview-Portal-Logo-Green-300x76.png 300w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greenview-Portal-Logo-Green-396x100.png 396w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greenview-Portal-Logo-Green-400x101.png 400w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greenview-Portal-Logo-Green-600x151.png 600w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greenview-Portal-Logo-Green-768x194.png 768w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greenview-Portal-Logo-Green-800x202.png 800w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Greenview-Portal-Logo-Green.png 1002w" sizes="(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px" /></noscript>The <a href="https://greenview.sg/services/greenview-portal/">Greenview Portal</a> is an industry-specific system developed by Singapore-based consultancy Greenview that allows hotel companies to track, measure and improve in areas of environmental sustainability and social responsibility at property or multi-site level. The online platform allows hotel owners, operators, and affiliations to track, benchmark, report and improve on various aspects of environmental and social performance. Greenview Portal is a GSTC -Recognized System.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-52 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-50"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-c36aae75b62c6b873 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_c36aae75b62c6b873"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="c36aae75b62c6b873" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-50" data-target="#c36aae75b62c6b873" href="#c36aae75b62c6b873"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Green Tourism Active Standard</span></a></h4></div><div id="c36aae75b62c6b873" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_c36aae75b62c6b873"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-26403 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GT-ACTIVE-logo-66x66.jpg 66w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GT-ACTIVE-logo-100x100.jpg 100w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GT-ACTIVE-logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GT-ACTIVE-logo-200x200.jpg 200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GT-ACTIVE-logo-300x300.jpg 300w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GT-ACTIVE-logo-400x400.jpg 400w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GT-ACTIVE-logo.jpg 500w" data-lazy-sizes="(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GT-ACTIVE-logo-150x150.jpg" /><noscript><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-26403 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GT-ACTIVE-logo-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="120" height="120" srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GT-ACTIVE-logo-66x66.jpg 66w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GT-ACTIVE-logo-100x100.jpg 100w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GT-ACTIVE-logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GT-ACTIVE-logo-200x200.jpg 200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GT-ACTIVE-logo-300x300.jpg 300w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GT-ACTIVE-logo-400x400.jpg 400w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/GT-ACTIVE-logo.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px" /></noscript><br /> <a href="http://www.gt-active.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Green Tourism Active</a> (GT-Active) is a global sustainability assessment and certification organisation. The GTA certification programs offer a forward thinking and leading global standard with in-depth focus on environmental, socio-economic, cultural and conservation performance and compliance in accordance with rigorous GSTC criteria and leading international developments. GTA focusses on sustainable travel and tourism partners and destinations.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-53 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-51"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-9dfc906be77fab903 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_9dfc906be77fab903"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="9dfc906be77fab903" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-51" data-target="#9dfc906be77fab903" href="#9dfc906be77fab903"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Six Senses Sustainable Operations Guidelines</span></a></h4></div><div id="9dfc906be77fab903" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_9dfc906be77fab903"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-1177032 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20136%20103'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="" width="136" height="103" data-lazy-srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Six-Senses-Logo-Comp-132x100.png 132w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Six-Senses-Logo-Comp-200x152.png 200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Six-Senses-Logo-Comp-300x228.png 300w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Six-Senses-Logo-Comp-400x304.png 400w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Six-Senses-Logo-Comp-600x456.png 600w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Six-Senses-Logo-Comp-768x584.png 768w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Six-Senses-Logo-Comp-800x608.png 800w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Six-Senses-Logo-Comp.png 1016w" data-lazy-sizes="(max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Six-Senses-Logo-Comp.png" /><noscript><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-1177032 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Six-Senses-Logo-Comp.png" alt="" width="136" height="103" srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Six-Senses-Logo-Comp-132x100.png 132w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Six-Senses-Logo-Comp-200x152.png 200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Six-Senses-Logo-Comp-300x228.png 300w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Six-Senses-Logo-Comp-400x304.png 400w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Six-Senses-Logo-Comp-600x456.png 600w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Six-Senses-Logo-Comp-768x584.png 768w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Six-Senses-Logo-Comp-800x608.png 800w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Six-Senses-Logo-Comp.png 1016w" sizes="(max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px" /></noscript>The Six Senses Sustainable Operations Guidelines were crafted to guarantee that every one of their properties is aligned in their dedication to achieving a harmonious balance among economic growth, environmental preservation, and social well-being. This policy framework aims to establish a cohesive and sustainable approach across all Six Senses properties, ensuring they not only thrive economically but also contribute positively to the environment and the communities they are part of.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-54 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" style="--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-icon-size:13px;--awb-content-font-size:15px;--awb-icon-alignment:left;--awb-hover-color:#f9f9f9;--awb-border-color:#cccccc;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-divider-color:#e0dede;--awb-divider-hover-color:#e0dede;--awb-icon-color:#ffffff;--awb-title-color:#4ca300;--awb-content-color:#5e5e5e;--awb-icon-box-color:#333333;--awb-toggle-hover-accent-color:#4ba800;--awb-title-font-family:"Roboto";--awb-title-font-weight:700;--awb-title-font-style:normal;--awb-title-font-size:16px;--awb-content-font-family:"Open Sans";--awb-content-font-style:normal;--awb-content-font-weight:400;"><div class="panel-group fusion-toggle-icon-boxed" id="accordion-24900-52"><div class="fusion-panel panel-default panel-033c15b879780de33 fusion-toggle-has-divider" style="--awb-title-color:#4ca300;"><div class="panel-heading"><h4 class="panel-title toggle" id="toggle_033c15b879780de33"><a aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="033c15b879780de33" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion-24900-52" data-target="#033c15b879780de33" href="#033c15b879780de33"><span class="fusion-toggle-icon-wrapper" aria-hidden="true"><i class="fa-fusion-box active-icon awb-icon-minus" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa-fusion-box inactive-icon awb-icon-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><span class="fusion-toggle-heading">Stay for the Planet Regulations and Technical Notes</span></a></h4></div><div id="033c15b879780de33" class="panel-collapse collapse " araia-labelledby="toggle_033c15b879780de33"><div class="panel-body toggle-content fusion-clearfix"><p><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-756217 alignleft" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20120%20120'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt="Stay for the Planet" width="120" height="120" data-lazy-srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Stay_for_the_Planet-logo-66x66.png 66w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Stay_for_the_Planet-logo-100x100.png 100w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Stay_for_the_Planet-logo-150x150.png 150w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Stay_for_the_Planet-logo-200x200.png 200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Stay_for_the_Planet-logo-300x300.png 300w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Stay_for_the_Planet-logo.png 340w" data-lazy-sizes="(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Stay_for_the_Planet-logo.png" /><noscript><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-756217 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Stay_for_the_Planet-logo.png" alt="Stay for the Planet" width="120" height="120" srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Stay_for_the_Planet-logo-66x66.png 66w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Stay_for_the_Planet-logo-100x100.png 100w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Stay_for_the_Planet-logo-150x150.png 150w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Stay_for_the_Planet-logo-200x200.png 200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Stay_for_the_Planet-logo-300x300.png 300w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Stay_for_the_Planet-logo.png 340w" sizes="(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px" /></noscript>Stay for the Planet Regulations and Technical Notes is used in the Stay for the Planet, which is a hotel management system launched by LifeGate in 2011. It provides a sustainability rating system as a result of the hotel performance in six areas (Energy, Water, Waste, Purchasing, Behaviours, People) as well as some key environmental indicators and suggestions for improvement actions. The aim of the system is to assess the sustainability performance of hotels, helping hoteliers to enhance their sustainability approach in order to provide customers with an environmentally friendly and conscious stay experience.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-55 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column"><div class="accordian fusion-accordian" 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data-lazy-sizes="(max-width: 60px) 100vw, 60px" data-lazy-src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/weeva_P_Logotype_RGB_Y-1.png" /><noscript><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-1043944 alignleft" src="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/weeva_P_Logotype_RGB_Y-1.png" alt="Weeva Sustainability Management Standard gains GSTC-Recognized Standard Status" width="60" height="147" srcset="https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/weeva_P_Logotype_RGB_Y-1-41x100.png 41w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/weeva_P_Logotype_RGB_Y-1-123x300.png 123w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/weeva_P_Logotype_RGB_Y-1-200x490.png 200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/weeva_P_Logotype_RGB_Y-1-400x979.png 400w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/weeva_P_Logotype_RGB_Y-1-600x1469.png 600w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/weeva_P_Logotype_RGB_Y-1-628x1536.png 628w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/weeva_P_Logotype_RGB_Y-1-768x1880.png 768w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/weeva_P_Logotype_RGB_Y-1-800x1958.png 800w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/weeva_P_Logotype_RGB_Y-1-837x2048.png 837w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/weeva_P_Logotype_RGB_Y-1-1200x2937.png 1200w, https://www.gstcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/weeva_P_Logotype_RGB_Y-1.png 1963w" sizes="(max-width: 60px) 100vw, 60px" /></noscript>The </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Weeva Sustainability Management Standard is designed on the four pillars of the GSTC which cover effective sustainability planning, maximizing social and economic benefits for the local community, enhancing cultural heritage, and reducing negative impacts on the environment. Within Weeva, users gain access to educational content, implementation tools, and the ability to capture data against identified sustainability criteria and indicators. The Standard provided in Weeva enables users to </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">assess their progress against the GSTC Criteria for hotels and accommodations, and to determine whether their property is ready to apply for certification through a Certification Body.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></section></div></main><div class="fusion-footer"><footer class="fusion-footer-widget-area fusion-widget-area fusion-footer-widget-area-center"><div class="fusion-row"><div class="fusion-columns fusion-columns-1 fusion-widget-area"><div class="fusion-column fusion-column-last col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12"><section id="text-11" class="fusion-footer-widget-column widget widget_text" style="border-style: solid;border-color:transparent;border-width:0px;"><div class="textwidget"><h4 style="color: #fff; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1px;">GSTC followers receive once a month updates of important developments and opportunities</h4><div 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