La Clef Verte

 

 

You feel concerned about the environment protection during your holidays? Go for a Green Key accommodation!

 

 

 

CRITERIA

 

To obtain the label, applicants have fulfilled a questionnaire and sent justification documents. Then, they received the visit from a Green Key ambassador. Lastly, their forms were examined by a national jury. Criteria to satisfy in order to be rewarded:

• Environmental management: projects in the field of environment for the 2 upcoming years, suppliers involvement
• Water management: water reduction, reasonable irrigation, monitoring of water consumption
• Energy management: energy reduction, monitoring of electricity an energy consumption, economic light bulbs, building isolation, use of renewable energy
• Waste management: selective collection, no individual packaging, reducing the volume of wastes
• Environmental education: of employees (meetings, instructions) and of guests (encouragement to respect nature and to save energy, water and reduce wastes
• Space and open spaces(for campsites): common areas, low density, car traffic, open spaces

BEHAVIOUR ON HOLIDAYS

 

Selecting a Green Key accommodation for holidays, it's selecting to reduce our impacts on environment and to promote another form of tourism, more respectfull.

 

Nevertheless, water and energy saving as well as waste sorting are not the problem of the lonely managers but should be a common concern of everyone and everyday. Choosing a Green Key accommodation, it's also rewarding the efforts made by the professional and going further with our own behaviour.

 

Some examples:

• Do not thow wastes everywhere, but in the appropriate container
• reduce the time of shower, it consumes a lot of water and energy!
• Do not take the car for short ways that can be done by foot!
• Switch off the lights and electric devices in empty rooms
• Accept that our car is not on our pitch but a little further on a car park: it avoids noise, odours and visual pollution in the campsite