Green Globe Index Announces Summit in Alicante, Spain

LONDON –(PR NEWSWIRE)—June 23, 2009– Green Globe Index today announced a Green Globe Certification Summit scheduled for June 25-29, 2009 in Alicante, Spain. The 3-day event is intended to bring all European-based Green Globe sales personnel, consultants and independent auditors together in order to provide clear guidelines, sales and marketing structure and additional information on Green Globe standards.

The summit is being held at Hotel Mio Cid and is the first in what is scheduled to be a series of Green Globe Summits, which offer a unique opportunity for interested businesses, hotels and individuals to attend a conference focused on all issues around achieving the world’s most recognized certification label. Hugo Kimber, Managing Director of Green Globe Index, Guido Bauer, CEO of Green Globe Certification and VP of Global Sales for Green Globe International, and Bradley Cox, COO of Green Globe International, will attend the event.

"We look forward to meeting with our existing and interested European partners, customers and all those interested in learning about sustainability and a reduced Carbon economy, through use of Sustainability Index and other Carbon management and reporting tools," said Mr. Kimber. "Green Globe Summits will be held on a regular basis in locations around the world in collaboration with Innovation for Sustainable Development Centre and are designed to further educate and provide the innovation and networking platform for the network of Green Globe partners, customers and the ever growing base of those in the private and public sectors interested about or engaged in sustainability. Just the Green Globe Index program is growing into new markets, there needs to be additional program support through such Summits worldwide."

About Green Globe
Green Globe, an affiliate member of the United Nations World Tourism Organization, is the leading global provider of sustainability index, benchmarking and certification programs, carbon footprint calculation and reduction programs, and a broad range of consulting services. Green Globe International has been admitted as. Over 5,000 hotels, destinations, attractions, airports, etc globally have been benchmarked or certified since its founding in 1992 by The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), the business leaders’ forum for the travel and tourism industry. For more information on the company and its programs, please visit www.greenglobeint.com.

Green Globe services in the Asia Pacific are distributed, managed and sold exclusively by Green Globe Asia Pacific (GGAP) through EC3 Global. If you would like further information on GGAP, please visit www.greenglobe.org.

About Sustainability Intelligence
Sustainability Intelligence, with headquarters in the United Kingdom, is engaged in the business of systems development, support, management, aggregation, publishing and analysis of sustainability related content and data for government, corporate, and consumer markets around the world. Sustainability Intelligence is backed by a team of carbon and sustainability related experts from private sector, NGO and academia, supported by an IT team of skilled engineers and support staff.

The Sustainability Index, along with a full range of other carbon related tools, have been licensed by Sustainability Intelligence to Green Globe and other associations, NGO and private companies around the world to support reduction and management of carbon emissions for all industry sectors.

For the travel and tourism industry, Sustainability Intelligences, in collaboration with The Carbon Consultancy, offers Indexing solutions for Green Meeting Events; Destination Sustainability Indexing; Carbon Responsible – resource for Calculation, Analysis, Management and Reporting for corporate, government, events, and individual travel (air, hotel, auto and rail); Carbon offset guide – what are they and who sells what; and the Green Hotel Finder – 7,000 global green rated hotels; etc. For more information on the company and its programs, please visit www.sustainabilityintelligence.com.

About Innovation for Sustainable Development Centre
Innovation for Sustainable Development is a non-profit US company which is focused on sustainable businesses, communities and environment. Its objective is to be a catalyst facilitating sustainability and carbon neutrality through learning, dialog, innovation, research, investment and partnership amongst cross-sector tourism stakeholder players. The focus is to find common grounds that meet the stakeholders’ interests and facilitate the implementation of their initiatives and investments that foster responsible tourism related job creation, trade, preservation of culture and environment, and enhancing the economy of disadvantaged communities. Tourism stakeholders from government, NGO, travel & tourism industries, financial sector, academia, commerce & trade, facilities & infrastructure development, IT & communications, and science & medicine have the opportunity to interact and learn through global online communities and forums, as well as in person events.

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