Tie-up to offer hospitality industry sustainability training

Sustainable certification programme Green Tourism has teamed up with the Hospitality Industry Trust (HIT) Scotland in a bid to help those working in the hospitality sector implement a green tourism strategy for their business in a way that suits them.

Jon Proctor and Andrea Nicholas of Green Tourism. Picture: Contributed

Perth-based Green Tourism said the partnership between the non-profit-organisations will enable participants to see the benefits a sustainable approach can have on hospitality and tourism businesses around the UK, as well as consider global sustainability.

Andrea Nicholas, managing director at Green Tourism, which says it is the world's largest sustainable certification programme of its kind, stated: "With increasing numbers of tourists considering sustainability when travelling it has never been more important for a hospitality business to adopt green practices.

"Working with a number of our top members who demonstrate excellence in sustainability, the chosen scholars will gain a wealth of experience and insight from their visit and we hope this will be reflected in the state of sustainability across the hospitality industry."

David Cochrane, chief executive of HIT, said that organisation "strives to make Scotland the best hospitality industry in the world and we know this can be achieved through our once-in-a-lifetime training opportunities and experiences that provide scholars with the opportunity to learn locally, nationally and internationally.

"We are constantly growing and improving our scholarship offering so teaming up with Green Tourism to provide a new scholarship on such a valuable hospitality business topic was a natural step for us."

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