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 

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)
  

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.