Hotel Hellnar is the first travel and tourism business in Iceland
to be certified by GREEN GLOBE, and has been certified since 2002. Hotel
Hellnar is committed to providing quality service in a safe,
ecological environment where care has been taken to use natural
building materials, and adhere to ecological building standards.
We invite and encourage our guests to participate in our efforts
to protect the environment, by providing information about our
business and pointing out to them how they can support our policy.
We have been certified by GREEN
GLOBE since 2002, and continue to seek annually
re-certification. This measure shows our commitment to the environment
and also ensures the customer that we are acting in accordance
with our policy.
Our commitment is to :
•
Achieve sound environmental practices across our entire operation.
• Comply fully with all environmental legislation.
• Reduce pollution and waste by reusing, recycling,
saving energy and water, and using eco-labeled products.
• Make year-on-year improvements in all the GREEN GLOBE
Key Performance Areas.
• Ensure, where ever possible, that all new products
or materials used around the Hotel are natural based, eco-labeled
or have a certificate of origin, so that the impact of their
use is minimal or non-existent.
• Where ever we can, to work with others in the tourism
industry, in public associations, with local and national
governments, and the community in general, to achieve wider
environmental awareness.
• Provide all employees with the training and resources
required to meet our objectives.
• Continually seek more information on sustainable development
in general and pass that information on to employees, guests
and others.
• Openly communicate our policies and practices to guests
and other interested parties.
• Use locally produced goods when available.
• Employ local people or people from areas where there
is unemployment.
• Review operations constantly to ensure that best practice
is maintained in all aspects of operations at all time.
• Review the Environmental Policy annually.
• Minimize risk of emergency situations by a maintenance
program and by exercising guidelines in handling such situations
should they arrive.
Originally makde
in March 2000
Last reviewed
in July 2008
- Gudrun G.
Bergmann manager/owner
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, overuse of freshwater
resources, destruction of biodiversity, production of solid
and biological waste and social issues.
Benchmarking
and certification by Green
Globe has to be carried out annually.
When Hotel Hellnar had achieved Benchmarking status in 2004
Cathy Parsons, Global Manager of Green
Globe, had this to say. “I
am delighted that Hotel Hellnar has achieved Benchmarked status.
Hotel Hellnar 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.”
Those
who seek certification from GREEN GLOBE go through three
stages:
A
– 
Affiliate:
Green Globe
has an Affiliate program which provides
sustainability information and helps Communities to understand
how Green
Globe Benchmarking and Certification
works and how to achieve this status.
B
– Benchmarking:
Companies may undertake Benchmarking independently of full Certification.
Companies that have been successfully Benchmarked may use the
Green Globe
logo to promote their environmental
and social achievements.
C
– Certified:
Companies that satisfy all of the requirements of the Green
Globe COMPANY STANDARD and who are
successfully certified following an on-site visit by an accredited
third-party assessor are entitled to use the Green
Globe logo with distinctive tick.
For
further information go to www.greenglobe21.com
