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Green Communities

Is your community working to be more sustainable?
Wouldn’t it be great to have a sustainable tourism program in your community that recognizes a network of green-certified business?

  • Build your own green tourism program based on the Virginia Green program participants.
    • Take credit for them and link them with other sustainability efforts.
    • Consider building a webpage to help visitors reduce their environmental footprint in your community by helping them find and support those businesses.
      • Example: Being Eco-Friendly During Your Stay in Richmond, VA
    • There are most likely several Virginia Green Travel partners in your community, because they are in all regions of the Commonwealth.
  • Consider becoming a Virginia Green Travel Chapter
    • Chapters work with the VGTA to develop a simple plan for:
      • promoting certified Virginia Green Travel partners
      • expanding the number of partners over time
      • including other community partners
  • Commit to Green Festivals and Events. Commitments to recycling and waste reduction and other environmental commitments are important these days and can make a very good or a very negative impact to visitor experience.
    • Certified Virginia Green Travel Events! The Virginia Green certification includes an application for green festivals & events and it’s a great teaching tool for event planners. 
    • The Virginia Green Sustainable Events Guide provides lots of great ideas for how to make your festival or event as green as possible! 
  • Green Meetings and Conferences. Conference & Convention Centers that are Virginia Green certified meet the green meeting requirement for  RFP’s  from government organizations and corporate entities that must have green meetings. 
  • Green Stories! Features and stories about green experiences will increase tourism business in your community. Write a feature about staying at a green-certified hotel, visiting a brewery, a museum, and restaurant….all Virginia Green certified!

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The Virginia Green Travel Alliance works to support, promote, and continuously educate the certified partners as they seek to continuously improve their environmental programs.

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