ODESSA, FLA.—Hasek Communications, the Odessa, Fla.-based publisher of Green Lodging News, welcomes Travelife as a supporter of the Green Lodging Trends Report. The Green Lodging Trends Report is the lodging industry’s annual exercise to assess and catalyze green innovation, best practices, and awareness regarding the state of sustainability across hotels worldwide. This year’s Green Lodging Trends Report will summarize the results of a second annual survey produced by Green Lodging News and Greenview.
Travelife is an internationally recognized sustainability certification scheme. It has been developed by the travel industry for the travel industry. Travelife is the only certification scheme to work in partnership with tour operators like TUI, Thomas Cook, DER Touristik, Virgin Holidays, Flight Centre UK and Barrhead Travel and many others—including over 50 of their travel brands, all of whom promote the adoption of Travelife by their contracted accommodations. Travelife assists hotels and accommodations in showing that they are serious about sustainability. In order to achieve the Travelife Gold certification, hotels and accommodations must submit to an independent audit every two years and meet 163 criteria.
Travelife started with around 100 hotels; currently Travelife has 1,500 member hotels in over 55 countries with 800 gaining the Travelife Gold certification. Since Travelife’s inception in 2007 the certification has grown to be recognized and used by all major European tour operators. In addition, the scope of the Travelife certification has widened; the scheme was initially based on an environmental criterion. The scheme now encompasses aspects such as: labor conditions, community integration and guest engagement. Travelife Gold helps its members globally improve their environmental, social and economic impacts. Call +44 (0) 20 3693 0160, fax +44 (0) 203 117, e-mail info@travelife.org, or go to www.travelife.org.
