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Lots of tourism businesses are already doing really great things, with inspiring results. These case studies show how businesses like yours have begun to green their businesses, save money and reduce their carbon footprints.
Read first hand how the
Crown Spa Hotel in Scarborough, winner of the 2010 Enjoy England Awards for Excellence Sustainable Tourism Award, are doing it through their ongoing blog.
9 Reasons to be Green - Meet England's Sustainable Tourism Champions
VisitEngland's case studies brochure (PDF, 719KB) celebrates nine sustainable tourism champions, each of them the winners of the regional heats of the Enjoy England Awards for Excellence 2009. The brochure showcases best practice and aims to inspire others to make changes that can positively affect their environmental, social and economic impacts.
Look into recycling food waste with local businesses – Mount Pleasant Hotel, Doncaster
The Best Western Premier Mount Pleasant Hotel in Doncaster used to send its catering waste to pig farms as feed, but since the ban on this practice in 2003, the hotel was left with little option but to send their food waste to landfill. Through working with local businesses the hotel trialled an alternative way of getting rid of food waste using Grott boxes.
Read the full case study (PDF, 1150KB)
More Yorkshire specific tourism related case studies coming soon.
Further inspiration from across the country
Video Case Study - Strattons Hotel
This case study shows how an independent family run hotel and restaurant in Norfolk has looked at every aspect of how they run their business - and by making simple changes have delivered total cost savings of over £10,000 a year. (You will need Media Player to watch the video). Read the full case study.
More case studies are available from the Green Tourism Business Scheme.