Partnerships
To bring added benefit to our customers in England, Green Key has formed a number of strategic partnerships with organisations that provide sustainable solutions to the hospitality industry. If you want to talk to us about forming a partnership, please get in touch.
Hotel chain partners:
Green Key has partnered with major international hospitality chains in the UK, including Marriott, Accor, InterContinental Hotels Group and Landal GreenParks. Internationally, there are also cooperation agreements with hospitality groups including Radisson Hotel Group, BWH Hotel Group and Historic Hotels Europe.
These hotel chains recognise the value of Green Key to support their establishments to reach their sustainability goals.
Booking partners:
Green Key also cooperates with many renowned online travel agencies and web partners that offer or highlight sustainable options. Customers will be able to find information about Green Key on the booking website and can select a Green Key certified accommodation if they are looking for environmentally friendly establishments. Green Key, therefore, regularly provides its web partners with an extract of the international Green Key database of certified establishments.
Establishments holding a valid Green Key certificate can also be recognised as ‘eco-certified’ on Google Travel, as Green Key is one of only a limited number of eco-labels recognised by Google Travel as meeting high standards such as conducting on-site audits.
Delivery Partners:
The mission : net zero team support clients who aim to earn a prestigious hallmark of sustainable green achievement such as Green Key, which demonstrates to investors, employees, and customers their commitment to fulfil the thorough environmental responsibility and sustainability criteria requirements within the hospitality industry. Mission : net zero help clients consider factors such as carbon emissions, waste management, supply chains, environmental impacts, employee engagement and employment policies.
As accredited businesses receive frequent independent audits to verify their sustainability performance and prevent so-called ‘green washing’, mission : net zero provide a managed service to closely monitor progress, ensuring in-depth sustainability standards are met.
Considerate Group is at the forefront of sustainable advisory for the hospitality and tourism sectors, through encouraging behavioural change and developing industry standards for CO2 reporting, CSR frameworks and resource monitoring.
In helping hospitality clients become measurably and inspiringly more sustainable, working with Considerate Group can help businesses achieve the international Green Key award.
HOSPA is the Hospitality Professionals Association, helping hospitality leaders to develop their careers and network, as well as keep up to date with industry trends and developments. HOSPA offers a wide and growing range of opportunities for members, from networking meetings and webinars which address specific topics to extensive professional development programme and the latest industry data disseminated through a variety of mediums.
Green Key have contributed to HOSPA’s Sustainability Toolkit which can be found here.
Corporate Partners:
Belu is a drinks business and Social Enterprise with a clear purpose: investing in solutions to deliver UN Global Goals 6, 12 and 13 and invest all net profits into WaterAid, to date that’s over £5.5 million invested in reaching poor communities worldwide with safe, clean water to drink.
Belu offers the Hospitality Industry sustainable water service solutions including Filtered Water Dispensers to serve hot or chilled still and sparkling water on tap, British Mineral Water in Ethical Glass bottles and sustainable Tonics and Mixers in recycled glass bottles.
Good for people, good for planet.
Green Eco Technologies developed the patented WasteMaster system as a sustainable on-site solution to manage unavoidable food waste, helping combat climate change by reducing the damaging emissions from organic waste around the globe.
WasteMaster reduces food waste by up to 80% in volume and weight, while uniquely retaining the calories and nutrients of the food input allowing this to be repurposed and valorised in support of a circular economy.
Following statutory guidance for food waste management, the WasteMaster converts waste into a resource, diverting waste away from landfill and drains.
Accurate measurement and live data to target, measure, reduce and manage food waste, WasteMaster provides organisations a simple way to reduce their carbon footprint while cutting waste disposal costs.
Bikeable is a fully managed bicycle service allowing hotels to provide bikes to their guests, directly from their front desk. Working with both independent and large hotel groups, Bikeable offers stylish bikes suitable for all abilities.
'Our bikes become your bikes', we offer a range of branding options so you can showcase your commitment to sustainability, health and wellbeing. Our comprehensive packages include liability cover, services, repair and cleaning, and an easy to use booking system, we ensure an effortless service. If you want to add a healthy, sustainable and great marketing vehicle to your hotel, without any hassle, just get in touch today.
By offering bicycle hire directly in your establishment, this will help sites meet a Guideline Green Key criteria and promote sustainable transport to both staff and guests.
A trusted partner at nearly three million customer locations, Ecolab Inc. is the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services that protect people and vital resources. With 49,000 associates, Ecolab delivers comprehensive solutions and on-site service to promote safe food, maintain clean environments, optimise water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies for customers in the food, healthcare, energy, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world.
Ecolab has a range of eco-labelled cleaning chemicals, which customers can choose in order to meet Green Key requirements.
Clean the World are a social enterprise who offer an innovative and unique solution, re-purposing hotels used and discarded bathroom amenities that would otherwise be viewed as waste and sent to incineration or landfill. Since 2009, Clean the World, has partnered with over 8,100 hotels globally to distribute over 75 million bars of soap in 127 countries. As the organisations operations have expanded, Clean the World has evolved to also recycle plastic bottled amenity waste from hotels.
See the stats for yourself in this case study showing the impact reporting by Clean the World at Green Key certified, Hilton Garden Inn London Heathrow Airport.