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ISO 26000:2010 Guidance on social responsibility

ISO 26000:2010 provides guidance to all types of organizations, regardless of their size or location, on: concepts, terms and definitions related to social responsibility; the background, trends and characteristics of social responsibility; principles and practices relating to social responsibility; the core subjects and issues of social responsibility; integrating, implementing and promoting socially responsible behaviour throughout the organization and, through its policies and practices, within its sphere of influence; identifying and engaging with stakeholders; and communicating...

TUI Environmental Champion 2013, do you want to be included?

Msolutions is offering a wide range of sustainability management services to the hotel industry. We can help your hotel business develop a sustainability management system like Travelife, EMAS or ISO 14001 and help you increase your sustainability performance and cut costs. All you have to do is to contact us. We work in all the Mediterranee countries and destinations.   If you want to find more about the TUI Environmental Champion award just follow the link...

World Tourism Day (WTD) 2012 – Tourism & Sustainable Energy: Powering Sustainable Development

          World Tourism Day (WTD) 2012 is being held under the theme Tourism & Sustainable Energy: Powering Sustainable Development. Official celebrations will take place in Maspalomas, Spain (Sept 27). This year’s theme aims to highlight tourism’s role in a brighter energy future; a future in which the world’s entire population has access to modern, efficient and affordable energy services. Tourism, one of the world’s largest economic sectors, has already taken important steps towards...

Travelife & the Importance of Sustainable Hotel Management – event in Cyprus – PRESENTATIONS ARE NOW AVAILABLE

PRESENTATIONS ARE AVALAIBLE, read below Cyprus Hotel Association, Paphos district, in collaboration with Travelife Ltd (a subsidiary of ABTA – The UK Travel Association) cordially invites you to attend a seminar about the Travelife Sustainability System for hotels and accommodations, where you will find out more about the benefits of implementing sustainable practices, including how the certification system works in practice for hotels like yourself, how it helps to secure cost savings, as well as improving...

Do you want to know more about TRAVELIFE?

Travelife is an international certification scheme that helps hotels and accommodations to improve the way they manage their social and environmental issues and if they have met Travelife’s strict sustainability criteria, they will receive a Bronze, Silver or Gold award. Properties can then highlight their award status in their marketing material, on their premises or in the Travelife Collection, to showcase that their property is doing things right – from paying fair wages to reducing...

Launch of the European Year 2012 Awards: Honouring the best initiatives that promote active ageing and solidarity between generations

As part of the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations, the European Commission is launching the European Year 2012 Awards in order to celebrate organisations and individuals that promote active ageing through their activities. There are six categories: Workplaces for all Ages – This category recognises the best initiatives by employers, trade unions and not-for-profit organisations that promote better working conditions for older employees. Towards Age-Friendly Environments – This category recognises outstanding initiatives by...

RIO+20 The future we want, conclutions.

source http://www.uncsd2012.org THE FUTURE WE WANT I. Our Common Vision 1. We, the heads of State and Government and high level representatives, having met at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20-22 June 2012, with full participation of civil society, renew our commitment to sustainable development, and to ensure the promotion of economically, socially and environmentally sustainable future for our planet and for present and future generations. 2. Eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge facing the...

Standards, Sustainability and Business Benefit” event on Tuesday, 29 May 2012, at 17:30

  International Hellenic University Auditorium The global recession has had many impacts, one of which was that sustainability is no longer among the top priorities in many businesses and organisations, especially in Greece. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that companies with sound sustainability programmes are likely to be better managed and able to deliver stronger financial performance. In fact there is evidence demonstrating that sustainability could be seen as an antidote to the...

INVITATION TO “CLEAN BLUE” WEBINAR

Following the success of MSOLUTION’S first webinar in April on the subject of ‘Travelife’ we have the pleasure to invite you to partake in MSOLUTIONS’ second webinar which will be held on Monday 11th June 2012 at 10:00 a.m. UK time, 12:oo Greek time (0900 GMT) on: The Risks, Liabilities & Challenges Generated by Tourist Resort Beaches & the Benefits & Importance of Sustainable Beach Management Implementation For more information about Sustainable Beach Management visit...

MSOLUTIONS incarne le développement durable en Afrique du Nord

Ecotourisme, empreintes carbone, développement vert… Ces termes nous sont de plus en plus familiers et pourtant, nous ne savons pas toujours ce qu’ils signifient, ni même ce qu’ils impliquent. La réponse est simple : avec 7 milliards de personnes sur Terre, il est aujourd’hui urgent d’être en avance sur son temps, de pensez au-delà de nous-mêmes, aux générations futures et à ce que nous pouvons faire pour créer chaque jour la différence. C’est exactement ce...

Travelife Webinar Presentation and Evaluation

We would like to thank you all for participating in our webinar “Travelife and its requirements”. Please be so kind so as to evaluate the webinar by answering the following questionnaire https://www.survs.com/survey/QF2ANX4BFI It is with pleasure that we are posting the material of our Travelife Webinar presentation on our website. Msolutions deals with the comprehensive development and support of sustainability systems. Whether you are looking to embark on your sustainable journey or to upgrade your...

INTRODUCTION TO TRAVELIFE AND ITS REQUIREMENTS 11/04/2012 – 16:00 (Greece Summer Time Athens, GMT+03:00)

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to partake in MSOLUTIONS’ first webinar which will be held on Wednesday 11th April 2012 at 16:00 hrs (Greece Summer Time Athens, GMT+03:00) on the very interesting and timely topic of: «INTRODUCTION to TRAVELIFE AND ITS REQUIREMENTS »  Guest Speaker: Mrs. Fiona Humphries, Travelife Relationships Manager of ABTA.  The seminars are free of charge, courtesy of MSOLUTIONS and Cisco Hellas. All you need to do to participate is to...

ONLINE WEBMINARS FOR TRAVELIFE

Msolutions is organizing webinars for TRAVELIFE from April 2012 to June 2012.  The aim of the webinars is to familiarize hotels with TRAVELIFE and to view all the services Msolutions has to offer. The webinars which last about 20 minutes are free of charge and will take place in Greek, English and French. Participate by filling out the following contact form, writing TRAVELIFE as the subject, your contact details and the hotel which you represent. We remain at your disposal for any further clarifications. What is Travelife  Travelife...

Water preservation a holidaymaker priority, claims Tui research

The vast majority of holidaymakers believe that it is important to save water when on holiday. Research issued today by Tui Travel operators Thomson and First Choice to coincide with World Water Day shows that 98.5% of consumers see water preservation as a priority. The sister operators have donated more than £50,000 to water charity Just a Drop and have raised £160,000 for Pump Aid which builds pumps and toilets in sub-Saharan Africa. The donations are part of Thomson and First...

World Water Day 2012

There are 7 billion people to feed on the planet today and another 2 billion are expected to join by 2050. Statistics say that each of us drinks from 2 to 4 litres of water every day, however most of the water we ‘drink’ is embedded in the food we eat: producing 1 kilo of beef for example consumes 15,000 litres of water while 1 kilo of wheat ’drinks up’ 1,500 litres. http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/...

Press Release about the MSolutions website

Dear Readers, We would like to inform you that on the 18th and 19th March our site was hacked into, resulting in the perpetrators stealing our access codes and content and causing considerable damage to the site itself. In order for us to repair the damage we found ourselves in the misfortunate position of having to disable the site temporarily. The site is up and running as of today. Despite having repaired the damage and...

Impressions of ITB – part 1

ITB was an exceptional verification of the fact that the future of tourism is hurtling down the one way road of sustainable development. Competition between countries and hotels has peaked and changed, with the quality of experiences hotels offer, differentiation and environmental sensitivity and conservation at the zenith. Msolutions has been dealing with entrepreneurial and sustainable development for over ten years and found ITB to be an exceptional opportunity to promote ‘Greenhotels’ and its new...

Msolutions is going to ITB

Our team will be visiting the ITB – Berlin fair to present our services. Our aim is to promote Clean Blue, Travelife and Greenhotels. Fill to arrange an appointment.  ...