The Green Key What is the green key?
What is the green key?
The Green Key is a FEE program, implemented by the FM6E in 2007, which aims to develop responsible tourism by rewarding and supporting best environmental management initiatives in the tourist accommodations sector. This ecolabel aims to change the behavior of stakeholders such as businesses, local authorities, clients, and the local community and involve them in increasing their responsibility towards their environment.
The Green Key is the first international network of environmentally friendly tourist accommodations with standardized mandatory criteria, award procedures and values in each member country, with some specific national adaptations. National criteria are adjusted to the regulations, infrastructure and culture of each country.
It is awarded on a voluntary, annual, progressive and positive basis from both mandatory and optional criteria in the following areas: environmental education, environmental management, involvement and training of personnel, information and customer awareness, and management of water, energy, waste, food, administration, green spaces, etc.
