2022 Virginia Green Travel Star Award applications will be available HERE the week of December 13, 2021 & due
February 15, 2022. Awards will be presented at the 9th annual Virginia Green Travel Conference, April 26-27, 2022 at the Hilton downtown Richmond.
Since 2010, the Virginia Green Star Awards have been given annually to the GREENEST tourism businesses in the Commonwealth. Typically, more than 30 businesses and individuals are recognized at our annual Virginia Green Travel Conference, which is scheduled to take place virtually on April 28-29, 2021.
All certified Virginia Green travel partners will receive a reminder notice the week of December 13th! Click here to see the 2021 Virginia Green Travel Star Award Winners!
AWARD CATEGORIES FOR THIS YEAR INCLUDE:
- Greenest Program of the Year. We typically recognize partners in at least 12+ sector categories — for instance, “greenest restaurant of the year”)
- Most Innovative Green Projects — what cool green projects have you worked on this year? Herb gardens, LED lighting, clean-ups, electric vehicle charging, solar, green cleaners, composting, what you did to adapt to COVID19 — share with us!
- Green Team All-Stars — a great opportunity to recognize your individual staff members who go above-and-beyond!
- Green Travel Leaders for award-worthy businesses who are “runner-ups” in various categories.…and this year, we will conducting a “people’s choice award” contest for your customers to become engaged with the awards process! More details to come on this, but you need to apply for one of the other awards first to participate in the people’s choice.
The awards provide great recognition opportunities to share your company’s environmental achievements. Check out our video on how you can apply this year!