Sustainable Travel International to launch global EcoCertification programme
Sustainable Travel International, the US not-for-profit organisation, has announced plans to launch a Sustainable Tourism EcoCertification programme (STEP) globally in the next few months.
It will be offering a new TravelGreen initiative for hoteliers and is also in the process of launching the first industry specific, web-based custom carbon calculator program with the likes of the World Wildlife Fund, Ben & Jerry’s, G.A.P. Adventures and other organisations.
The Sustainable Travel International London office will be open by this summer.
STI has been offering Carbon Offsets in collaboration with the Swiss-based MyClimate and the Bonneville Environmental Foundation.
It pioneered web-based travel-specific carbon calculaters.
STI President Brian Mullis said: “This is only the beginning. Through collaboration and with backing from our supports, members and sponsors, we remain focused on our primary goal – to mainstream the concept of sustainable tourism development within the travel and tourism industry.”<
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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