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building Sustainability in your business

Building sustainability into your tourism business benefits the environment, local communities, and builds your businesses for success! It will align your experience with the growing demand for responsible and ethical travel experiences, helps identify effieciences and savings, and plays a role in global efforts to create a more sustainable future.

Sustainability is not an end goal, it is an ongoing process that involves continuous improvement and adaptation. To help our industry members no matter where they are on their sustainability journey we have developed this page to provide access to key resources to build sustainabiltiy practices into your business. 

  • Sustainable tourism: image two girls walking in a forest

    A great place to start Sustainable Tourism Toolkit

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Getting Your Business ECO Certified

Whether your business is an accommodation provider, a restaurant, a tour operator or an attractions there is a ECO Tourism Australia certification program for your business.  Bundaberg Regional Council is offering a subsidy to offset your first annual certification fee.

Advantages of being ECO Certified

- Global quality assurance
- Operator credibility and recognition
- Demonstrate commitment to continuous improvement
- Free Listing on Eco Tourism Australia Green Travel Guide
- Free Product Listing on Our Planet Travel
- Meeting consumer expectations

WHICH CERTIFICATION IS RIGHT FOR MY BUSINESS?

STRIVE 4 SUSTAINABILITY SCORECARE

If you run a tourism business and are interested in starting your sustainability certification journey, but don't know where to start, the Strive 4 Sustainability Scorecard is a great place to begin. Tourism Australia is the founding partner of the pathway program, which measures where a business or tourism operator is at on their sustainability journey at a point in time and assesses the following four pillars of sustainability:

- Environmental impacts
- Socio-economic impacts
- Cultural impacts
- Sustainable management

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ECO CERTIFICATION

If you are a tour, accommodation or attraction operator with nature as your primary focus in your visitor experience, the ECO Certification program is for you. It assures travellers that certified products are backed by a strong, well managed commitment to sustainable practices and provides high-quality nature-based tourism experiences. ECO Certification is product-specific, you will need to answer the criteria as it applies specifically to each of your products and it also means that you are able to apply for ECO Certification even if not all of your products are nature-based.

There are three levels of ECO Certification: Nature Tourism, Ecotourism and Advanced Ecotourism.

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SUSTAINABLE TOURISM CERTIFICATION

If you are a tourism businesses, such as a hotel, restaurant, distillery or brewery, attraction, tour, transport, but nature is not your primary focus, a Sustainable Tourism Certification may be right for you. You must be passionate about minimising negative impacts on the environment and maximising positive impacts for community, culture and local economy.

There are two levels of ECO Certification: Sustainable Tourism and Advanced Sustainable Tourism.

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  • Strive 4 Sustainability

    The Strive 4 Sustainability Scorecard is a pathway program for any tourism business to start their sustainability journey

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  • Become an ECO Certified Tourism Operator

    ECO Certification is for operators who have a primary focus on nature-based experiences

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  • Strive 4 Sustainability

    Sustainable Tourism Certification is for operators who don't have a primary focus on nature-based experiences

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  • BRC ECO Tourism Fee Subsidy

    The Bundaberg Regional Council is offering 50% off the annual Eco Tourism certification fee. Fill in the EOI here

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CARBON CALCULATOR

As a tourism business, measuring your carbon footprint can have significant environmental benefits. By tracking your emissions, you can identify areas of your operations that are contributing the most to your carbon footprint (and consequently your bills), and then take steps to reduce your emissions. By doing so, you can help to mitigate the impact of climate change on the environment and the communities you serve, whilst creating financial savings. This can be achieved in three easy steps:

- Sign up to the EarthCheck Carbon Calculator HERE free of charge thanks to Bundaberg Tourism
- Enter your energy, water and waste data through the online system
- See how you compare to others in your sector and region and determine where your efforts can sit to reduce your impact

  • Measure your business' carbon footprint: image of beautiful sea shell on sand

    Measure your tourism business' carbon footprint

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REEF HEALTH

Here on the Southern Great Barrier Reef, we are blessed with a year-round temperate climate perfect for visitors to experience our abundant marine life and discover the intricate details of the reef they call home.

As citizens of the reef, we can help manage the risk of marine heat waves leading to coral bleaching.

An early warning system helps us predict, forward plan, and respond to coral bleaching events.

- Climate forecasts
- Real-time monitoring of temperature stress
- Monitoring to detect and report the early signs of bleaching

Be part of and encourage your visitors to help the reef thrive with these tools:

  • download the eye on the reef app: image girl snorkeling with giant manta ray

    Get your visitors to feel a part of the solution by collecting valuable information about reef health when they visit our reefs

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  • Get the latest updates about the health or our reef: image salt water marsh with a winding waterway through mangroves

    Get the latest updates about the health or our reef

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  • how you can help with reef health: image man looking out over the ocean at sunrise

    Learn more about reef health and how you can help

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BUILDING GREAT CARE FOR OUR TURTLES IN YOUR BUSINESS

As an Eco Certified Destination, the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and home to the most significant loggerhead turtle nesting population in the South Pacific we pride ourselves on being a community that takes Great Care in protecting and conserving our natural experiences for future generations, especially our Turtles!

With the Mon Repos Turtle Centre bringing over 30,000 visitors to our region each year, our industry has a Great responsibility to build Great Care for Turtles into our business operations and share the message with visitors to the region too.

Get involved in encouraging visitors to take Great Care of our turtles, with this assets.

  • download our turtle poster: image sea turle swimming in open water

    Add this poster to your shop front, to your confirmation emails and add it to your website

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  • read blogs aboout how you can care for our turtles: image sea turtle and girl snorkeling over a reef

    Take great care for our turtles checklist

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  • About The Cut the Glow Initiative

    Read more on the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Services Cut the Glow initiative

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  • Cut the Glow Resources

    Cut the clow collateral to use in your business

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  • Bundaberg Regional Council encourages everyone, including our visitors, to understand the significance of the Bundaberg Region’s shoreline as a nesting location for threatened turtle species.

    Register below

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OTHER SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS RESOURCES

  • free sustainable business signage: image

    Download free sustainable business signage.

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  • free micro courses: image

    Register for a Typsy account and search Sustainability

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  • Develop an action plan to help your businesses save money and increase efficiencies

    Develop an action plan to help your businesses save money and increase efficiencies..

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  • Two-part sustainability training program is available on-demand through the ATEC Academy online learning platform

    Two-part sustainability training program is available on-demand through the ATEC Academy online learning platform

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  • free assistance to food retailers to transition away from single-use plastics

    Free assistance to food retailers to transition away from single-use plastics

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  • As part of the #LessIsMore BRC & the Burnett LMAC will pick up your plastic straws & replace them with an equal number of Biopak Art Straws free of charge.

    As part of the #LessIsMore BRC & the Burnett LMAC will pick up your plastic straws & replace them with an equal number of Biopak Art Straws free.

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  • Resources for YourBusiness

    Visit Council's resources to learn why you should integrate sustainable waste & recycling practices in your business

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We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the Country on which we work, live and play across Bundaberg and the North Burnett, Taribelang Bunda, Gooreng Gooreng, Gurang, Bailai and the Wakka Wakka and Auburn Hawkwood (Wulli Wulli) People as the Traditional Custodians of the precious land, water and sea country on which we all love to work, live and play.

We recognise the thousands of generations of continuous culture that have shaped this country and the people on it.

And we pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging and look forward to working with all First Nations People in the Bundaberg and North Burnett regions in sharing culture through tourism, in the spirit of mutual respect and reconciliation.

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