Upon successful completion of the STTP Sustainable Business Travel Exam, you will receive an email with your exam results, and a PDF copy of your certificate, sent to the email address you provide at the time of registration.
The exam is evaluated on the basis of its relevance to the training class content and current industry knowledge.
The STTP Sustainable Business Travel Exam is offered in an online and open-book format, and is designed to evaluate the training participant’s awareness and knowledge of the content covered in the Sustainable Business Travel course, and relevant examples and approaches to implementing sustainable business travel policies and best practices.
In order to earn the GSTC Certificate in Sustainable Business Travel, You will first need to complete the training requirement of the GSTC Sustainable Business Travel training course. Once you complete the course and receive a Certificate of Completion, you have the opportunity to take the STTP Sustainable Business Travel Exam.
The GSTC Professional Certificate in Sustainable Business Travel is awarded to those who have (a) completed a GSTC Sustainable Business Travel training class, and (b) successfully passed the official GSTC Sustainable Business Travel Course Exam. The Certificate, signed by the GSTC Chair and CEO, recognizes that the recipient has demonstrated their knowledge of sustainable business [...]
RCL will give preference to GSTC Certified tours by the end of 2018 when quality, price and availability are equal.
Tour operators will be eligible to use the GSTC’s world-renowned logo in their marketing materials once they have been confirmed by GSTC to have been certified to a GSTC Accredited program. To use the GSTC logo, the tour operator must simply enter into a licensing agreement with GSTC. The licensing agreement will last for one [...]
The length of the process can vary depending on the processes and documents a tour operator might already have in place, decreasing the time it might take to gather and organize these materials. The length of time to audit can also depend on the size and complexity of an operator. In general it can take [...]
A 2015 Nielsen Global Corporate Sustainability Report shows that 66% of global consumers say they’re willing to pay more for sustainable brands—up 55% from 2014. 73% of global millennials are willing to pay extra for sustainable offerings—up from 50% in 2014.
Many certifying bodies offer efficient ways to reduce the cost of certification – for example, group pricing for multiple tour operators, or affordable pricing for small operators. Price of certification is a key question to ask of certifying bodies when selecting one that meets your needs.
The costs vary. Most certification bodies include a one-time application fee, a recurring annual fees, and audit expenses. These may be based on annual turnover. Let certification bodies know that you supply RCL with tours, inquire with them to find out if they can offer any special pricing arrangements.
No. However, RCL strongly encourages its tour operators to adopt sustainability practices and to become GSTC Certified. In addition, moving towards 2020, RCL will give preference to sourcing tours that are GSTC Certified and to those that have made progress towards certification, when quality, price, and availability are equal. Tour operators that obtain GSTC Certification [...]
RCL tour operators will have until December 31, 2019 to become a GSTC Certified tour operator in order to be included in RCL’s sustainable shore excursions marketing program beginning January 1, 2020.
The length of time it takes to become certified varies depending upon the size/complexity of the tour operator and the operator’s existing sustainability programs.
In order to be eligible to be called a RCL “sustainable” tour as of 2020, the tour operator that directly operates the tour must be GSTC Certified. Companies that sub-contract with tour operators to operate RCL tours are recommended to work with their sub-contracted tour operators to encourage and assist them to become GSTC Certified. [...]
Please refer to the GSTC Certified Toolkit for Tour Operators.
Unfortunately, no. This special incentive was available only to the tour operators who joined us to meet our 2015 target of having 50% of our tour operators third party-verified to an internationally recognized standard. However, all RCL tour operators who have achieved GSTC Certification will be immediately designated an RCL “sustainable” tour. We ask that [...]
The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) was formed in 2007 by a coalition of 32 organizations including the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the United Nations Foundation, Rainforest Alliance, and the World Wildlife Fund. Like the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) for seafood and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) [...]
In consultation with WWF, we elected to endorse the Global Sustainable Tourism Council’s (GSTC) tour operator sustainability standard and certification program. The work we have all done in collaboration for the sustainable shore excursions program has laid the ground work to be able to now take our program to the next level, adopting the world’s [...]
