Eco Friendly / Eco Certification
Udayana Eco Lodge was the first Lodge to achieve Green Globe Certified status under the worldwide Green Globe Certification Program, recognizing our commitment to operating at high environmental standard for tourism operators . All our other Eco Lodges have adopted Green Globe principles into their management systems.
Green Globe is the global Benchmarking, Certification and improvement system, assisting the international travel and tourism industry to attain sustainability. Green Globe provides a certification system that responds directly to the major environmental problems facing the planet, including climate change, over-use of freshwater resources, destruction of biodiversity, production of solid and biological waste and social issues.
Support for global accreditation body
Illustrating the strong commitment of Eco Lodges Indonesia to the best practice environmental performance of our Eco Lodges, one of our Board members, Steve Noakes, has been appointed to the Temporary Executive Board of the Sustainable Tourism Stewardship Council (STSC) - a proposed global accreditation body for sustainable tourism and ecotourism certification programs supported by the Rainforest Alliance.
www.rainforest-alliance.org/tourism.cfm?id=council
The Sustainable Tourism Stewardship Council is part of the Marrakech Process, a Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.-led initiative to promote a shift towards global sustainable production and consumption. http://esa.un.org/marrakechprocess
The STSC is part of the emerging initiatives program of the International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling Alliance.
www.isealalliance.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.ViewPage&PageID=900
Global Partnership for Sustainable Tourism Criteria
EcoLodges Indonesia also supports the Global Partnership for Sustainable Tourism Criteria (GSTC Partnership) - a coalition of 32 organizations working together to foster increased understanding of sustainable tourism practices and the adoption of universal sustainable tourism principles. The Partnership, which was initiated by Rainforest Alliance, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Foundation, and the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), launched the Sustainable Tourism Criteria at the World Conservation Congress in October 2008. These criteria provide the minimum standard that any tourism business should aspire to reach in order to protect and sustain the world’s natural and cultural resources while ensuring tourism meets its potential as a tool for poverty alleviation.
www.sustainabletourismcriteria.org
GSTC Partners include:
