ETGG2030 GOOD PRACTICE COLLECTION

A selection of 22 international and national environmental and sustainability certificates for SMEs in Europe invited to nominate certified businesses for the ETGG2030 SME Good Practice Collection.

See: Nomination Form

13 certificates nominated examples

Following certification bodies nominated 70 outstanding examples out of their certified SMEs:

Green Globe Green Key TourCert Biosphere Responsible Tourism Travelife for Accommodations EarthCheck Bio Hotels ECOCAMPING Green Sign Sustainable Holiday Residence Austrian Ecolabel for Tourism Eco-Romania ibex fairstay

22 certificates were invited to nominate examples

Certificates with Profile & Green Travel Maps on Tourism 2030 (in bold: nominating certificates)	Operation Level
Austrian Ecolabel	National
Biohotels	Europe
Certified Green Hotels, Germany	National
DEHOGA Umweltcheck	National
ECO Certification, Malta	National
Eco Romania	National
Ecocamping	Europe
Ecolabel Luxemburg	National
EMAS	Europe
Green Sign Hotels	Europe
ibex fairstay, Switzerland	National
Legambiente, Italy	National
Sustainable Holiday-Residence, Germany	Europe
Biosphere Responsible Tourism	Global
EarthCheck	Global
EU Ecolabel	Global
Green Globe	Global
Green Key	Global
Green Tourism	Global
TourCert	Global
Travelife Accommodations	Global
Travelife Tour Operators	Global

WORK GUIDANCE & PUBLICATION

STEP1: evaluate the nominations until 15th September

Each expert

1. go to the table below, get familiar with the certificates (left column) and read their each nominations (right column)

2. make your mind: which is your (preliminary) evaluation result according to the 5 EVALUATION CRITERIA (max. 5 points)

3. enter your result (1-5 points) in the "add comment" box on the bottom of the nomination form. Option: use the comment box also for questions you might have to the business. You can see and consider the comments from all experts.

Experts team

4. Evaluation result meeting on 15th September, 16:00 - 17:30 CEST (GoToMeeting ECOTRANS)

EVALUATION CRITERIA:

Nomination form part 1 (upper part): Completeness (= 1 -5 points)
Outstanding Contributions": Coverage of all SDGs 8,12,13,14,15,17 (=1 -5 points)
Innovative character: high effort considering the size, category and country of the SME (= 1-5 points)
Effectiveness: measured achievements & linkages between SME and local/regional initiatives (= 1-5 points)
Transferability of the measures (widely transferible to similar SMEs = 1-5 points)

Evaluation method

You can give 1-5 points to each of the criteria = maximum 25 points per nomination.

Tip: before starting to enter your points in the "add comment" box you may first read some nominations to get familiar with differences.

EVALUATON POINTS (1= not at all... > 5=very… outstanding)

Completeness (upper part)
Coverage of all SDGs 8,12,13,14,15,17
Innovative character (high effort considering size, country,etc)
Effectiveness (measured achievements)
Transferability (achievements, links to local/regional initiatives)

STEP2:

a. select nominations and produce a short text on each

Expert team: evaluation meeting on 15th September 2021
Excel sheet: evaluationresults per expert and average results
Selection of about 30 good practices, covering all participating certificates, all countries, all categories

b. Case stories

identifying the main achievements and contributions to the SDGs for the writing of stories
writing stories of 1/2 -1 page on the about 30 best practices, with references to the GSTC-Industry criteria
writing short summaries on the other nominations

Note: Step 2b. will be delivered by one of the ECOTRANS experts participating in STEP1.

STEP3: publication on the Tourism2030- Good Practice Browser

a. fill out the "best practice" examples with the "stories" and "summaries"

b. mark the related GSTC-I criteria for filtering

c. make links to/from the SMEs on the "Green Travel Maps"

d. save the "nominations" for later use

All nominations will be published on the "Good Practice Browser".

A collection of about 30 examples will be presented as "stories" with their contributions to the SDGs.

The collection will be integrated with the ETGG2030 training system and the RU Ready for certification tool as "business cards" for available certificates.

Their detailed information will also be used as examples by the experts who will coach the SMEs in 2022/2023.

Furtheron they can also be used as "lighthouses" in destinations/regions/countries who are setting up and running a sustainable tourism certification cluster.