With the Holiday Season setting in, a thought about GREEN TRAVEL – By Simran Vedvyas

I attended a Community Lecture this evening which focused on a new concept GREEN GLOBE.  On the onset the presenter feels that all the travelers are ECO TRAVELERS in their own way as they are set to do something GOOD, even if it may be to enjoy which is positive and good.

As the holiday season sets in, and we all are making our travel plans- it becomes our duty to plan GREEN TRAVEL, as much as we want – we can start by negotiating with our travel agent to suggest us HOTELS THAT FOLLOW GREEN POLICIES, or find ourselves the hotels and accommodation which has GREEN CERTIFICATION.

Green Globe Certification

Green Globe Certification provides certification, training & education, and marketing services in 83 countries worldwide. Based in Los Angeles, California and with partners in Mexico, South America, South Africa, Middle East, the Caribbean and Europe, Green Globe Certification provides certification for the sustainable operations and management of travel and tourism companies and their related supplier businesses. Green Globe Certification also maintains a global network of independent auditors who provide third party inspection and validation.

The Green Globe Certification Standard is based on internationally accepted criteria developed during the 15 years of the Green Globe program. Green Globe Certification 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 address regional issues through the adoption of locally developed standards.

Green Globe Certification participates at all the world?s leading travel and tourism expos and conferences, including World Travel Market – London, ITB – Berlin, IMEX- Frankfurt, Caribbean Marketplace among many others. Green Globe Summits are held throughout the year in key destinations to provide insight to the latest development in sustainability certification, provide training and education to auditors and discuss local issues confronting businesses and the communities they work in.

The Lecture was presented by Mr. Bradley Cox, from GREEN GLOBE USA

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