BIO-hotels is the first hotel group with ehc certification Nassereith/Munich, July 19, 2012. The vanguard of a sustainable travel culture make a decisive step: BIO-hotels have been awarded as the first hotel group certified (ehc) the label eco hotels. The label guarantees that the houses of the Group beyond their mandatory ecological standards for food and cosmetics have to show a good CO2 balance. The ehc label is now visible to the guest, what is long lived, sustainable practice in many areas: for example the purchase of green electricity, heating without fossil fuels or the promotion of regional products and structures. The ehc-certified, environmentally friendly action and future-oriented economies is evidence and comparable. The members of the BIO-hotels shine through their operation for annually with regard to the consumption of water and energy, as well as their waste volumes and enter your values in the ehc database. Also the company vehicles or the consideration of biological Flow criteria during the renovation in the entry with a. Learn more about the ehc criteria under.

No meat and no flight goods? the difference is that with the seal of the ehc we have can stand an instrument at hand with which we raise where the holdings in the resource consumption for our group for the first time. And we see, what measures we can improve the balance and the use of resources”, so Ludwig Gruber, Managing Director of BIO-hotels. Eco-electricity and energy-efficient heating and cooling system of a House, the kitchen has the greatest lever for a footprint as small as possible. Little or no meat and refraining from flying goods affect positively on the CO2 balance. Continuous improvement using the database the CO2 value per guest is included for each House and night is calculated. Then is the classification of operations based on a traffic-light system, with a green or at least yellow footprint the prerequisite for a successful certification of ehc is.