Our environmental management solutions for the tourism industry
To offer services with a lower environmental impact, tourism professionals need to be familiar with best practices in environmental management and demonstrate that they are implementing them.
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Do you work in the tourism industry in a role that involves environmental protection? We provide you with access to standards, market intelligence solutions, training, and certification upon audit.
Lascaux IV: A world-renowned tourist site opts for NF Environnement certification
In the Dordogne, the Lascaux IV tourist site, home to cave paintings created by Homo sapiens, has committed to sustainable management practices by obtaining NF Environnement certification for “Visitor Sites.” Reducing paper usage, managing lighting and energy, sourcing supplies for the gift shop… Hear the explanations from Franck Doucet, operations manager, and Lenka Lamoure, auditor for AFNOR Certification.
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Why focus on environmental protection?
In France, tourism capacity is largely concentrated along the coast and in mountainous regions. In these areas, the environmental pressures caused by fluctuations in population are manifold: increased volumes of waste to be collected and treated, heavy visitor traffic in fragile natural environments, energy consumption, air pollution caused by rising road traffic, increased demand for drinking water, management of larger volumes of wastewater, etc. At the same time, high tourist density can also contribute to increasing land development.
Source of figures: Ademe 2022
