Sustainability partnerships and consultancy, built around what you need to achieve.

We provide practical expertise for destinations, tourism associations and public sector organisations that need to implement, improve and measure sustainability performance across multiple businesses, areas or sites. You can choose complete programme delivery or targeted support where you need it.

  • Shape a deliverable and workable sustainability strategy
  • Design and deliver effective business or people development programmes
  • Bring businesses, partners and communities on board
  • Turn carbon data into measurable progress

Bring us the challenge

You may have the ambition, funding or strategy in place but need the capacity to deliver it. That could mean coordinating carbon measurement across a destination, increasing participation in a funded initiative, putting a sustainability strategy into practice or developing criteria for a particular place or sector.

Every project is tailored to the challenge, the people involved and the result you need to achieve. Now into our 30th year in sustainable tourism, our consultants bring practical experience in business engagement, assessment, carbon measurement and programme delivery.

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Strategy & action planning

Clarify priorities and translate them into practical actions, responsibilities and measures of progress. We develop and strengthen destination sustainability strategies, organisational plans and programme frameworks for teams and businesses.

Programme design & delivery

Build a programme that works for the organisations you need to involve. We shape the offer, participation model, delivery plan, communications and support around your objectives, budget and timescale.

Carbon measurement & reporting

Create a consistent approach to measuring emissions and reporting progress. Carbon Tracker covers Scopes 1, 2 and 3, helping participating businesses identify reductions, manage costs and contribute useful evidence to wider objectives.

Business engagement & learning

Give businesses clear reasons to take part and useful support once they do. We create project-branded sign-up journeys and resources, deliver webinars and technical sessions, and help your team maintain momentum.

Bespoke standards & assessment

Develop criteria, evidence requirements and assessment processes suited to a particular sector, destination or programme, separate from the Green Tourism Certified standard. Where appropriate, participating businesses can be independently assessed against the Green Tourism Certified standard by our certification team.

Practical resources

Put useful tools in people’s hands. We produce policy templates, procurement checklists, supplier questionnaires, guidance and project toolkits tailored to the audience and the work you need them to carry out.

Flexible support from one experienced team

Some clients need an end-to-end delivery partner. Others need expertise within one workstream. We can lead the project, work alongside your existing team or deliver a clearly defined piece of specialist consultancy.

Carbon Tracker and Green Tourism Certified can be included where they add value. They support the brief; they do not dictate the shape of the wider project.

Our consultancy and advisory work is kept separate from certification. The people who advise or support a business are never the people who make certification decisions.

Consultancy in action

Our work ranges from long-term destination partnerships to focused commissions involving strategy, standards, carbon measurement, business engagement and practical resources.

Booking.com

Extending access to certification

We partner with Booking.com to give accommodation providers preferential access to Travalyst-recognised Green Tourism certification, including complimentary registration, practical guidance and independent assessment.

Belfast

Building participation across the visitor economy

Green Tourism certification was fully funded for businesses across Belfast’s visitor economy. We supported participation and assessment through webinars and ongoing business support.

South Downs

A bespoke framework for a national park

We worked with the destination and its stakeholders to develop bespoke assessment criteria, advise on the processes behind its business certification programme and support its launch.

VisitScotland

Reaching businesses nationwide

The partnership offered SMEs up to £500 off Green Tourism certification. We supported recruitment through nationwide destination outreach and webinars, helping more than 200 businesses take part.

East Lothian Council

Supporting sustainable growth across the region

The three-year partnership fully funded first-year Green Tourism support for up to 15 local businesses, with preferential fees in years two and three, plus practical guidance and resources.

More partnerships with practical results

  • Plymouth: A funded Green Tourism programme for up to 100 businesses, supported by webinars and ongoing membership discounts.
  • Visit Moray Speyside: Sustainability resources tailored to local business needs and introduced through networking and conference activity.
  • Visit Lanarkshire: Destination-specific business resources launched through a joint webinar.
  • Fife Council: Fully funded membership for eligible businesses, with guidance and resources supporting certification.

What does your project need to achieve?

Tell us about the challenge, the organisations you need to involve and where specialist support would make the difference. We’ll help you define the brief and shape a practical response around your priorities.