A Home Away From Home
As a hotel you offer your guests a temporary home and do everything for them to feel comfortable. Your staff should also feel comfortable – as the hotel sector is people-to-people business. At the same time, your premises and the needs of your numerous guests make you struggle with a very high energy and resource consumption. The TourCert certification supports you in handling both of these problems!
Saving Energy
The TourCert system for hotels is aimed at improving your energy efficiency and environmental performance and also at saving costs. At the same time, the system creates fair working conditions, involves your employees in the process and strengthens their personal responsibility and staff motivation.
This is what’s important to us…
- Are the guests offered climate friendly transport options, e.g. bicycles rentals?
- Do you monitor the waste you generate and do you dispose of it in an environmentally sustainable manner?
- How much electricity do you use per guest?
- Do your employees get opportunities for advanced training?
- Do you use local products and do you have business relations with local partners?
- Where in your hotel can you save electricity?
- How can your water consumption per guest be made more efficient?
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Good reasons…
- Guaranteed quality through GSTC Recognized Standard
- Identify the strengths and weaknesses of your company.
- Together with a TourCert expert you will identify possibilities to save energy and resources – and in this way you will also save money!
- You will systematically observe your quality parameters and will be able to use them to optimise your products and their quality.
- On the basis of the strengths you identified, you will fine-tune your individual market position.
- You will derive clear strategies and will then be able to benefit from competitive advantages.
- You will ensure transparency by regularly publishing a sustainability report.
- You will benefit from your improved image – with customers, the public, and internal stakeholders.
- With your newly gained know-how you will increase the competence of your employees, encourage innovation, and improve the quality of communication with your customers.
- Thanks to satisfied customers you will improve customer loyalty.
- With your social commitment and the involvement of your employees you will improve the motivation and satisfaction of your staff.
We make things measurable
In order to control complex matters such as the sustainability performance of a hotel, we have developed measurable indicators. Analysing the current state of affairs is therefore an important step towards certification. The data collected include financial data, the number of employees in the company, water, electricity and heat consumption, and staff satisfaction. Together with a TourCert expert, you will build on the assessment and deduce possibilities to optimise your business.
You would like to know more about the individual steps of certification? Click here.
For further information
Below you will find a list of criteria and implementation rules for hotels as well as a price list for certification. If you would like a concrete offer, please fill in the form at the bottom of the page.
TourCert Criteria Catalogue Industry 2021
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You can find the TourCert set of criteria for companies here.
TourCert Implementing Rules Accommodations 2022
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The regulations for the certification of accommodations can be found here.
TourCert_Flyer Hotels_2019
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The flyer gives an overview of the TourCert certification of hotels.
Did we convince you?
If you have any questions, we are at your disposal. It will be our pleasure to discuss with you the individual aspects of certification and the particularities of your company.
You would like to just send us an inquiry? We look forward to hearing from you!
