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Good Practice Businesses for the SDGs

The SME Good Practice Collection demonstrates that and how credibily certified tourism SMEs in Europe are contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals 2030, a.a. to the SDGs 8, 11,12, 13, 14, 15 and 17. The 70 exemplary hotels, camping sites, guest houses, tour operators and other businesses are all awarded by national or international environmental and sustainability certification programmes. Click on the participating certificates' logos below the right hand map to see their profiles and Green Travel Maps of their certified businesses worldwide. Click on the Good Practice Browser map to zoom in or to filter the 70 examples by country, category and GSTC criteria for businesses. The A-Z table below leads you directly to the descriptions with outstanding achievements and contributions to the SDGs.


See also: https://etgg2030.com/resources/etgg-2030-good-practices		Good Practice Browser Map

About the SME Sustainability Good Practice Collection

This SME Sustainability Good Practice Collection brings together a set of tourism enterprises in Europe which demonstrate sound management and innovation in the pursuit of sustainability.

The collection is based on nominations submitted in 2021 by sustainable tourism certification bodies, following an invitation by ECOTRANS. The nominations received were subsequently assessed by a panel of experts participating in the ECOTRANS network.

The collection is presented as a set of good practice case studies, based on the information submitted. These include 36 written descriptions (10 full page and 26 shorter pieces) and a further 34 tumbnail descriptions.

The 36 examples with written descriptions of their outstanding contributions to the SDGs are marked with ** (10 longer case studies) and * (26 shorter case studies) .

The 70 enterprises are primarily accommodation businesses, including hotels, other serviced accommodation, self-catering/apartments, glamping and camping operations. A small number of other types of business are also featured, including tour operators, attractions, activity providers and restaurants.

All the enterprises are SMEs. They are categorised by size according to the number of employees:

Micro: under 10 employees
Small: 10 – 49
Medium: 50 – 250.

The case studies also indicate which of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are most closely related to the actions described. Although sustainable tourism can have some bearing on each of the 17 SDGs, this exercise has been restricted to just seven of them:

SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth; SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities;
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production; SDG 13 Climate Action;
SDG 14 Life below Water; SDG 15 Life on Land;
SDG 17 Partnership for the Goals.

Reference is similarly made to the internationally recognised Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria for Industry (GSTC-I), showing which of the 42 individual criteria relate most directly to the activities set out in the case study.

It is important to note that the SDGs and GSTC-I criteria indicated do not necessarily reflect all aspects of the enterprise’s policies and activities. They simply relate to the matters covered in the case study descriptions.

ABSOLUTE CARPATHIAN * Romania		ALTER KONSUMVEREIN Germany		AWEN TREE HOUSE * Italy

BACHER TOURISTIK * Austria		BIO & NATIONALPARK REFUGIUM SCHMILKA Germany		BIOHOF SEIDL Austria

BLASLA HOF * Austria		BOUTIQUEHOTEL STADTHALLE ** Austria		CAMPING BALDARIN * Croatia

CAMPING MOOSBAUER Italy		CASA DINTRE SALCII Romania		CERVO MOUNTAIN RESORT ** Switzerland

COLÒNIA GÜELL ** Spain		CONSCIOUS HOTELS Netherlands		DAS GRÜNE HOTEL ZUR POST * Austria

DER BIRKENHOF Germany		ECORETREAT * Spain		FORESTIS DOLOMITES Italy

FORNELLA CAMPING Italy		GAIA HOTEL Switzerland		GEBECO * Germany

GREEN TINY HOUSES ** Germany		HAUSER EXKURSIONEN ** Germany		HIDRODOE ** Belgium

HOLZHOTEL FORSTHOFALM Austria		HOTEL BERNERHOF GSTAAD Switzerland		HOTEL DER ÖSCHBERGHOF Germany

HOTEL MARTINEZ France		HOTEL OKURA * Netherlands		HOTEL SANS SOUCI WIEN Austria

HOTEL ST POL * Belgium		HOTEL VILLA ORANGE Germany		HYATT REGENCY HOTEL NICE * France

HÖHENCAMPING KÖNIGSKANZEL Germany		INTER PARES Romania		JESOLO INTERNATIONAL CAMPING CLUB Italy

KALLICHORON ART BOUTIQUE HOTEL * Greece		KAMP KOREN Slovenia		KASTEELHOEVE WANGE Belgium

KINSTERNA HOTEL * Greece		LA GRÉE DES LANDES * France		LEFAY RESORT AND SPA LAGO DI GARDA Italy

LINDEN-GUT HOTEL * Germany		MONTE CARLO BEACH * Monaco		MÖVENPICK HOTEL ZÜRICH REGENSDORF Switzerland

MÖVENPICK HOTEL‘S-HERTOGENBOSCH * Netherlands		NATUR & BIOHOTEL BERGZEIT Austria		NATURA GLAMPING * Portugal

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM VIENNA * Austria		NATURHOTEL CHESA VALISA * Austria		NATÜRLICH HELL Austria

NEPTUNE HOTELS Greece		NISSI BEACH RESORT * Cyprus		PORTBLUE CLUB POLLENTIA Spain

RESTAURANT LUFTBURG * Austria		RETTER BIO-NATUR-RESORT ** Austria		SCHWARZWALD PANORAMA * Germany

SUITE HOTEL PINCOFFS Netherlands		THE SHORE SCHEVENINGEN * Netherlands		THEINER`S GARTEN Italy

TORRE DEL CODINA * Spain		TUI SENSATORI ATLANTICA DREAMS Greece		TYMES TOURS Romania

UHLENKÖPER CAMP Germany		VALSANA HOTEL Switzerland		VILLA HERMANI ** Romania

WARFTHOF WOLLATZ * Germany		WHATLEY MANOR ** United Kingdom		YAYS CONCIERGED BOUTIQUE APARTMENTS Netherlands

YOUTH HOSTEL SCUOL ** Switzerland