Sustainability - with practical support
Holger Sigmund supports businesses and destinations with sustainability programmes and certifications as an expert and neutral consultant.
For certification, he relies on the tools of Green Destinations, which are recognised certificates for companies and destinations in Switzerland at Swisstainable Level II - engaged and Swisstainable Level III - leading.
Offer
Swisstainable using the Good Travel Seal
The Good Travel Seal is specifically aimed at medium and small family‒run businesses (SMEs) and is open to all types of tourism businesses, such as:
Hotels, B&Bs, restaurants, mountain railways, shipping companies, excursion destinations, tourist information offices, activity and adventure providers (such as bike and cycle hire, boat and canoe hire, surf schools, diving centres, ski schools, climbing gardens).
The Good Travel Seal is also recognised as proof by both Booking.com and Google Travel from Level 1.
ADVANTAGES:
- Affordable system costs, pay-what-you-get
- Modular system for the further development of sustainability
- Web-based reporting and meaningful scorecard
- For businesses: Recognition at Booking.com, Google Travel and in the sustainability programmes in Switzerland and South Tyrol
- Supports destination certification in Switzerland, South Tyrol and Austria (in terms of penetration at business level)
Swisstainable for destinations with the Green Destinations certification programme
Green Destinations offers an award and certification programme with a wide range of tools for developing sustainability in destinations. As one of three GSTC‒accredited certification bodies, Green Destinations works with over 600 destinations worldwide. The certification is recognised as proof in the Swiss tourism sustainability programme, Swisstainable, at Level III - leading. All information about Green Destinations can be found here.
Holger Sigmund accompanies destinations in the implementation of their sustainability programme and supports them in the use of the tools, awards and certification of Green Destinations.
ADVANTAGES:
- Large international network of destinations
- Successful national and regional programmes (in the Alpine region, for example, Slovenia Green or the South Tyrolean Sustainability Programme) use Green Destinations.
- The programmes and tools can be adapted to the local situation and the organisation and can be configured in detail
- Web-based reporting tool and management system
- The Good Travel Seal from Green Destinations offers opportunities to certify all tourism businesses in the destination. The Good Travel Seal is recognised by Swisstainable at Level II - engaged and Level III - leading.
Swisstainable-Businesses
Scorecards of companies that are recognised with the Good Travel Seal in the Swisstainable programme.
Memberships
Holger Sigmund Management & Projects donates one percent of the company's yearly turnover to selected and audited organisations through '1% for the Planet'. Holger Sigmund is a member of Impact Hub Zurich, STV-FST, Fairunterwegs, GSTC supports MyBluePlanet and takes part in the Swiss Triple Impact programme run by B LAB Switzerland.
