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GSTC Hotel Standard
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The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) Standards were created to provide a common understanding throughout the world of “sustainable tourism”, and are the minimum that any tourism business should aspire to reach. They are organized around four main themes: effective sustainability planning, maximizing social and economic benefits for the local community, enhancing cultural heritage, and reducing negative impacts to the environment. They have applicability to the entire tourism industry.
The GSTC Standards (known previously as GSTC Criteria) are developed based on the GSTC Standard Setting Manual v3.0, where the ISEAL Code of Good Practice for Sustainability Systems is used as a reference. The ISEAL Alliance is the body recognized to provide guidance on international norms for developing sustainability standards in all sectors.
The GSTC Industry Standard (GSTC-I, known previously as GSTC Industry Criteria) 3rd version evolved into two distinct standards in 2025 the GSTC Hotel Standard and the GSTC Tour Operator Standard.
Explore the GSTC Hotel Standard comparison document to better understand the key changes between the previous and current versions: Change Mapping.
Some of the uses of the standard include the following:
- Serve as the basis for certification for sustainability
- Serve as basic guidelines for businesses of all sizes to become more sustainable, and help businesses choose sustainable tourism programs that fulfill these global standards
- Provide greater market access in the growing market for sustainable products, serving as guidance both for travelers and for travel agencies in choosing suppliers and sustainable tourism programmes
- Help consumers identify sound sustainable tourism programs and businesses
- Serve as a common denominator for information media to recognize sustainable tourism providers
- Help certification and other voluntary programs ensure that their standards meet a broadly-accepted baseline
- Offer governmental, non-governmental, and private sector programs a starting point for developing sustainable tourism requirements
- Serve as basic guidelines for education and training bodies, such as hotel schools and universities
- Demonstrate leadership that inspires others to act
