Monday, August 10, 2009

Qualmark Celebrates First Green Birthday

New Zealand’s world-leading environmental accreditation system for tourism businesses – Qualmark Green - is one year old today.

It’s not easy being green, but over 200 tourism businesses have shown it can be done by achieving Qualmark Green enviro-ratings within 12 months of the programme’s launch.

Of those, 50 have immediately reached Enviro-Gold standard - the highest ranking available under the system.

“We are delighted that we’ve got 200 accredited businesses and 50 who went straight to Enviro-Gold. The Qualmark enviro-rating system is demanding and thorough so that’s quite an achievement in just 12 months,” says Qualmark Chief Executive Geoff Penrose.

Qualmark is New Zealand tourism’s official quality accreditation programme. The launch of Qualmark Green enviro-ratings last year made Qualmark the world’s first fully-integrated environmental and quality accreditation programme for tourism.



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