10 Steps for Going Green

Choose the Going Green services according to your needs

The TRIANGLE Knowledge Alliance for Sustainable Tourism in Europe with their universities offer research, education and training services to tourism stakeholders in destinations that are going green. 

Contact the TRIANGLE KA member in your country and ask for further information.

The 10 Knowledge Base Topics are giving you access to helpful contacts, courses, tools and resources, news and events, good practice examples for your topic of interest. 

Click through the 10 topics and see the role of destinations in making tourism more sustainable.

Natural Heritage & Biodiversity: use the "Tourism & Biodiversity Knowledge Pool" with the checklists for businesses and destinations   

The "Competence in sustainable and responsible travel & tourism certification course" is raising your knowledge and and giving you an up-to-date picture on sustainable and responsible travel and tourism certification, using the Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria as guidance. 

Pass the course and get a certificate for your competences in certification   

The TRIANGLE Student internship programme has a 2000 Euro grant for graduates who wish to specialise in the field of sustainable tourism. Students get to travel to countries in Europe and enter the business and adminstrative world of tourism activity to gain competence in the application of professional diagnostic, auditing and development tools.

Offer an internship placement in your destination and get a skilled student to do a pre-assessment of your destination's sustainability level with recommendations for improvement

The global good practice browser is giving you access to more than 1000 finalists and winners of awards for responsible and sustainable tourism all over the world, with a growing set of detailed descriptions along the Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria.

Look out for good practice examples in your country or for your topic of interest and add your own good practice example to the global browser

The Tourism 2030 Countdown Clock has been launched to give tourism professionals in business, government and NGOs a longer term perspective on how we can collaborate to achieve the SDG in the next 3 policy cycles up to 2030.

Join the Tourism2030 community to be kept informed about new developments and to get in contact with other destinations and colleagues for going green

The Travel Green Europe app provides a single window on the world's largest independent 3rd party certified green tourism market place to promote your business or destination  - if it has been certified  - to bring you and consumers closer together.

See which businesses and destinations are already promoted through "Travel Green Europe" worldwide to travelers, tour operators, booking and marketing services.  

The global certification quickfinder is helping you to find the environmental or sustainabilty certificate appropriate to you business category and expectations on the coverage of sustainability criteria, the credibility of the auditing system and special services for applicants and members.

See which certification programmes are available to your destination, compare their profiles and services, promote the Quickfinder to the tourism businesses in your destination and recommend to go for certification.    

The Green Mapping service is providing you with an own Green Travel Map folder to manage, monitor and market the green offer in your destination.

Map in the non-public section those businesses and services who participate in a workshop and are interested in certification of their environmental and sustainability level. Use the map for internal communication.

See and show the certified tourism businesses and services on your public Green Travel Map and highlight them in your destination marketing.  

The international experts of the European ECOTRANS network are helping you to assess and innovate your tourism products and services to meet the environmental, economic and social challenges and to raise your competitiveness in the international tourism market

See which international experts are recommended in your country. Make your choice and start with a Going Green workshop for stakeholders or businesses in your destination to specify your interest, needs and opportunities.