How Your Business Can Benefit

The Green Tourism Business Scheme is a VisitScotland accreditation scheme relating to good environmental practice. Designed specially for tourism businesses, the scheme will help you reduce costs, improve your efficiency and increase your marketing potential, while also reducing the environmental impact of your business. In other words, help the environment, and help your business.

By adopting environmentally friendly methods to improve your business efficiency you can tap into the growing market of environment-conscious visitors and at the same time contribute to sustainable tourism in Scotland. We’re not talking about implementing an arduous and complex green strategy in your business, rather adopting simple measures and behaviours that reduce your business’s environmental impact and ultimately save your business money. For example, if everyone in Scotland only boiled the water they needed to make a cup of tea instead of filling the kettle every time, we would save enough electricity to practically run all the street lighting in the country!

Some of the simple measures you can take in your business are:

  • Switching off computer monitors when not at a desk – A PC monitor left on overnight wastes enough energy to laser print 800 pages
  • Using energy saving lighting
  • Fixing dripping taps and reducing water pressure
  • Recycling waste e.g. glass, paper, aluminium cans, cardboard
  • Only printing when necessary and turning off lights when leaving a room

Straightforward practices that deliver environmental and business prosperity. Many companies in Scotland have already achieved tremendous success by applying to the Green Tourism Business Scheme.

Learn how just a few of them have contributed to a cleaner, greener Scotland and improved their business performance here:

How to get involved.

Find Out More

If you want to discuss the Green Tourism Business Scheme further please contact Marian Wallace, email: marian@green-business.co.uk, tel: 01738 632162. For more information, visit www.green-business.co.uk


More information on green tourism can be found at www.greentourism.org.uk