Many travelers in Europe when choosing natural landscapes and recreation areas attach great importance to environmentally friendly housing.
Europeans prefer to stay in establishments for which environmental sustainability and responsibility are an integral part of services.
The guarantee of sustainable tourism is the presence in tourist infrastructure of the Ecolabel.
In order to become the owner of such eco-friendly label, tourist service establishments must meet 80 internationally recognized criteria.
It is not only strict requirements for air and water quality, but also the efficient use of energy, environmentally friendly products of local production, the rejection of disposable plastic packaging.
Ensuring compliance with such stringent requirements is not an easy task. The high authority of the ecological label is ensured not only by regularly updated criteria, but also by on-site inspections. They are held every three years by local auditors and their colleagues invited from abroad, eco-tourism.expert was told at Luxembourg's Oekozenter Pafendall environmental centre.
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