Green Globe Benchmarked Certificate
News release: 16 August 2006, New Zealand
Awaroa Lodge
Abel Tasman National Park - New Zealand
Awaroa Lodge in New Zealand’s Abel Tasman National Park has achieved the prestigious Green Globe Benchmarked Certificate under the new Green Globe Certification program, which recognises the operation’s commitment to operating at the world’s highest environmental standard.
Awaroa Lodge has spent considerable time benchmarking its energy and water consumption, waste production and disposal as well as implementing an integrated environmental and social policy. These measures will deliver ongoing reduction of non-renewable resources, extensive cost savings and secure a sustainable commercial and ecological future for Awaroa Lodge.
About Green Globe
Green Globe is the global Benchmarking, Certification and improvement system assisting the international travel and tourism industry to attain sustainability. Green Globe provides a certification system that responds directly to the major environmental problems facing the planet, including the greenhouse effect, over-use of freshwater resources, destruction of biodiversity, production of solid and biological waste and social issues.
A Green Globe representative says “I am delighted that Awaroa Lodge has achieved Benchmarked status. Awaroa Lodge is an inspiration to all those people committed to environmentally sustainable tourism. They have demonstrated through a variety of initiatives, that the business and its employees can make a difference to reducing their environmental impact. The commitment they have shown in signing up to participate in the Green Globe program and their achievements set an example for other businesses to follow.”
About Awaroa Lodge
At the quiet northern end of Abel Tasman National Park, Awaroa Lodge is the perfect vantage point to explore the famous Abel Tasman Coastal Track - the most beautiful of all New Zealand’s ‘Great Walks’. Our Eco strategy has been formed with the location around us in mind, the environment in which we are situated commands respect and requires us to be mindful of it in everything we do. It has shaped the way that we do business, we believe that we are creating an innovative business practice that in the future will be a clear example of how profitability and Eco sustainable practice can work together hand in hand, these two concepts are not opposing extremes of the same scale but require consideration of the both to ensure our success in the way that we measure it. It requires taking a multiple bottom line approach to the Lodge, our turnover or profit not being our only defining feature of successful business.
This award comes on the heels of the nomination for “Hotel of the Year”in the New Zealand Hotel Association awards to be announced 28 September in Queenstown. The lodge was also the winner in the 2005 NZ Tourism awards in Eco Tourism.
www.awaroalodge.co.nz
e: stay@awaroalodge.co.nz
Tel + 64 9 5288758
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