✔️ Align your destination management under the Biosphere Scheme
✔️ Engage your business network and measure the collective impact
✔️ Complete a 100% online certification process
✔️ All your information and progress on a single platform
Request information about our certification services as a destination management body in the Biosphere Scheme, under the «destination» typology. Available to any organisation with genuine destination management competence (town councils, island councils, DMOs, destination tourism promotion bodies...).
If you are part of an administration that designs and implements policies for the management or promotion of a tourism destination, this certification service is designed for you.
On our Biosphere Sustainable platform, you will be able to work on the Biosphere certification Scheme for the ‘destination’ type. A complete digital system for managing, documenting and receiving conformity assessments on requirements framed within the 17 SDGs! All of this within a certification process based on a continuous improvement methodology, which has already been successfully implemented among destination managers in countries such as Canada, Portugal, Spain and Brazil.
From local councils and DMOs to tourism promotion bodies in destinations, our clients receive our assessment services with external audits, 100% online and third-party, on the information on their sustainability practices under the requirements of the Biosphere Scheme. It does not matter whether your remit is local, regional or covers an entire province. The requirements of the Scheme will be applied according to your type, resources, competences and the scope of your management.
Carrying out your certification process with Biosphere Responsible Tourism means having tools that guide you every step of the way. Access a 100% online platform that allows you to organise, document and submit for audit evidence of the sustainability actions of your territorial tourism management under the requirements of the Biosphere Scheme.
By contracting our certification services, you obtain:
🕐 The duration of the process may vary depending on the characteristics of the manager, the scope requested, the information available and compliance with the applicable requirements. The granting of certification is subject to a favourable decision in the assessment process.
In addition to taking out our certification services for your administration under the «destination» typology in the Biosphere Scheme, you can also take out certification services from us for the businesses in your territory, so that you can then offer these services under the economic conditions most convenient for you to the beneficiary entities.
Independently of your certification process as a destination management body, you can offer businesses in your territory discounts on our certification services for individual entities, whatever their typology and size, according to the scope applicable in each case.
It is neither compulsory nor essential in order to take out and carry out your certification process, but it can certainly help to broaden the participation of the business community and strengthen the information available on the management of tourism sustainability in your destination. With this type of support programme, you can help to:
✔️ Encourage certification processes in the destination
✔️ Raising awareness about the assessment of business information
✔️ Give greater visibility to entities with certification
✔️ Increase the audited information available on the destination
