Certifications.

I have been watching one of the classes of the course. Jane Ashton has been talking about TUI and their sustainable development policy.
I´ve found very intersting the fact that they have their own sustainable catalog to pic your holidays, but also that they have many different certifications to "quantify" how sustainable a resort or hotel is.

Among them we find:

ISO 14000
ISO 9001
ISO 22000
Green Key
Travelife Award
Österreichisches Umweltzeichen
EMAS
Green Globe 21

So now, like we have with LEED, taking over the whole world, we should start working on a global certification where we all can rely to verify the sustainability of our tourist business. Someone in our last section mention that it would be interseting to have an Open Source one, just like Wikipedia... :)


http://www.tui-group.com/en/sustainability/env_management/certifications