GreenTravel.ie - Responsible Travel &
Tourism Awards 2017 – Application Form
Use one application form for each award you are entering for.
Companies/organisations may apply for a maximum of 2 awards.
Company/Organisation Details – All Fields are Mandatory
Insert the name of the Category Award you are applying for here (Use separate
copies of this form for each award application)
Organisation/Company Name
Your Name
Job Title
Address
City
Telephone Number
Mobile Number
Your email address
Organisation/Company email
address
Organisation/Company
Website
Applications must be received by Friday, 31st March 2017 @ 5.00pm
All applications must be sent by email to [email protected]
Judging will be carried out solely on the quality of the initial application.
These awards are open to any Travel, Tourism or Hospitality company or organisation
that engages in Responsible Tourism or for Suppliers that provide products/services to the
hospitality sector that assists their environmental performance.
Green Hospitality Programme, Eastgate Village, Little Island, Cork
Telephone: 021-4354688 www.greenhospitality.ie email: [email protected]
Category Application
Summarise your application here in less than 100 words. Should your application be
successful this will be the summary published. It should be concise and quantifiable.
This should be the last box you complete.
Is your business a member of, or certified by, any responsible, sustainable or
environmental programme? If yes please give details here.
Has your business won any international, national or regional awards for
responsible, sustainable or environmental business activities? If yes please give details
here.
Green Hospitality Programme, Eastgate Village, Little Island, Cork
Telephone: 021-4354688 www.greenhospitality.ie email: [email protected]
Tell us why you feel your application should win this award.
In your own words tell us why the project details enclosed should be selected by us as the
category winner. This is your opportunity to put into context the project in terms of
business pressures, challenges and could also identify specific barriers that you had to
overcome to achieve the end result.
Read the Judging Criteria Guide and the Applying for an Award Guide before
completing your application and ensure you have addressed each of the elements that will
be judged.
Of key importance are;
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Have been implemented/completed within the last 12/24 months
Can provide a good example to other businesses
Can demonstrate environmental savings/improvements
Can demonstrate cost savings (If relevant)
Can show how improvements have been communicated to stakeholders
When making an Improvement Claim;
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Show what effect this has had on the business
Give quantifiable figures that back up your claims
Green Hospitality Programme, Eastgate Village, Little Island, Cork
Telephone: 021-4354688 www.greenhospitality.ie email: [email protected]
Senior Manager Approval
All award applications must include the approval of the senior manager within the
business. He/she can also include their comments/observations about the project and this
will be taken into account during the judging
Senior Manager Declaration
I am happy to support this award application and the information supplied
Name
Job Title
Signature
Senior Manager Review of application and project
Green Hospitality Programme, Eastgate Village, Little Island, Cork
Telephone: 021-4354688 www.greenhospitality.ie email: [email protected]
Your Application Details
Your information can be included as a single file or PDF. Do not send by mail any
information – the use of photographs, charts, etc. can be helpful. Use the guidelines here
to answer the specific questions about your project. If you have no information for any
box please tell us why.
The key to a successful application is to be succinct, to the point and use quantifiable data
or clear backup materials to support your claims and project outcomes.
Project Name
Dates – When started – when completed
Planning and Executing – How did you go about planning and implementing this project
– what barriers did you have to overcome – what buy in did you need to get from
management/employees or other stakeholders.
Targets & Objectives – what were your initial Targets/Objectives – were these
challenging – why this project?
Pre-Project Baseline Data – what was the state of play before you started the project. (If
this is an energy, water, waste, carbon, etc. project you need to show your pre-project
consumption, benchmarks, etc.- for qualitative projects tell us how you measure your
success)
Post-Project Baseline Data – what was the end result of your project – you must be able
to show a correlation between Pre and Post project results. This is your “Success”
quantification.
Green Hospitality Programme, Eastgate Village, Little Island, Cork
Telephone: 021-4354688 www.greenhospitality.ie email: [email protected]
Project Financial Analysis (If relevant) What were the costs of the project
implementation – what are the paybacks achieved, expected. What were the challenges in
securing financial support, etc.
Monitoring – How are you monitoring the results of the project and how long do you
expect the results to happen for
Barriers/Successes – identify any barriers/challenges that you came up against and how
you dealt with them. Also the same for successes during the project.
Sharing of Results – can your experiences of this project assist other businesses in
making similar successes – can your project be replicated elsewhere.
Communicating your results – how have you communicated the results of this project to
stakeholders – managers, employees, customers, other stakeholders
Any other information – If you feel more information about this project will support
your application tell us here
Green Hospitality Programme, Eastgate Village, Little Island, Cork
Telephone: 021-4354688 www.greenhospitality.ie email: [email protected]