Welcome to the Green Hospitality Programme

"Greening Irish Hospitality"

Visitors Plan your Visit with our Green Google Map! This map, featuring all Green Hospitality member properties, allows you to plan your holiday, weekend away, short break, business trip or meeting by showing you our green businesses that make an effort to take care of our environment.  read more	View larger map

About the Green Hospitality Programme

The Green Hospitality Programme is the only Irish developed environmental certification standard for the hospitality sector.  The Green Hospitality Awards are recognised both nationally and internationally as standards that allow members achieve good environmental performance and allow visitors to choose "Greener" hospitality businesses knowing that defined criteria are being implemented and monitored.

Our members and award winners have set themselves the target to reduce their environmental footprint where possible.  Members aim to reduce carbon emissions by reducing energy consumption, preserve scarce water resources and minimise waste production.

Members are encouraged to protect and promote local biodiversity, buy locally where possible and encourage visitors to use local "green" businesses and services.  Visitors are encouraged to adopt a responsible approach to the environment without reducing the quality or enjoyment of their visit.

Our employees are encouraged and trained to implement and practice good stewardship within the business and our members publish annual plans and set targets to reduce the waste of scarce resources.

This is a voluntary programme that aims to develop leadership and best practice within the hospitality sector.

Greenhospitality offers membership and certification programmes across all parts of the hospitality....click here to read more

Download Greenhospitality.ie brochure here

Greenfestivals.ie

In 2010 Green Hospitality started work in developing a programme for festivals and events called greenfestivals.ie  This is a natural extension of the greenhospitality.ie programme and is designed to encourage and lead festivals and events in adopting a more sustainable approach.

Festival organisers are encouraged to adopt the principles of sustainability and promote them to their supporters and local businesses.

2 festivals are currently adopting sustainability in 2010;

Fleadh Cheoil 2010, Cavan

Wexford Festival Opera 2010

Further developments are planned for 2010/11- if you want to Green your Festival contact us here....

Greenrestaurants.ie

Our newest development is our programme for restaurants.  More and more consumers are looking for Irish restaurants to be more sustainable and responsible and to promote and offer Irish Produced Food -  We have some of the best food in the world in Ireland and these food items are the ones that should be offered to consumers - this also helps in sustaining Irish jobs and in keeping money in Ireland .

Green restaurants can serve food cooked in any style of cuisine from around the world but focus on using Irish ingredients.  Our Green Restaurants also manage their environmental footprint by minimising consumption of energy and water and reducing the volume of landfill waste.

Potential Members

Customers - individual, leisure, corporate, meetings & events etc - are looking for hospitality businesses that clearly care about the environment.

By joining Greenhospitality.ie and achieving an award your business can join those who are delivering what their customers want, adopt ethical management behaviour, reduce consumption and costs and assists in achieving the Corporate Social Responsibility policies of your business.

Can you affford not to be recognised as an environemntally responsible business?

To find out how your business can benefit and what you need to do click here....read more

Testimonials

Read about the hospitality business that are delighted to be part of the Greenhospitality.ie programme and find out about some of the savings that can be made... read more

The Green Hospitality Award is funded by the Environmental Protection Agency under the National Waste Prevention Programme . Funding is provided by the DEHLG from the Environment Fund