England's sustainable tourism champions

The nine regional ‘champions’ who competed for the Sustainable Tourism Award at the recent Enjoy England Awards for Excellence feature in a new publication by VisitEngland. 

‘9 Reasons to be Green’ celebrates the best of sustainable tourism practice in England highlighting "the extra lengths that some of the country’s tourism operators go to in order to ensure maximum carbon savings and showing that it makes good business sense".

Left: The award-winning Venus Beach company's site at Bigbury

The publication is available online and can be downloaded at VisitEngland’s dedicated sustainability micro site www.visitengland.com/green.

The Sustainable Tourism Champions featured in the publication are: 

The Hytte, Bingfield, Hexham

The Palace Hotel, Manchester

Poston Mill, Peterchurch, Hereford

The Deep, Hull, East Yorkshire

Doddington Hall & Gardens, Doddington, Lincolnshire

Old MacDonald’s Farm, Brentwood, Essex

The Venus Company, various locations in Devon and Cornwall

EC&O Venues, London

Festival Place Shopping Centre, Basingstoke

According to VisitEngland, the launch of this publication is a continuation of activity commenced under VisitBritain "to mainstream sustainability into the English tourism industry". VisitEngland launched officially on 1 April 2009.