DER Touristik integrates sustainable aspects into travel and creates authentic holiday experiences. DER Touristik promotes and characterises certified products and makes it easier for customers to choose and book. Wherever possible, sustainability standards are implemented within the supply chain, to protect both humans and the environment. 

Therefore, DER Touristik has set itself the goal of 25 % of the hotels in the core portfolio being certified with a Sustainability certificate according to the GSTC standard. 
 

In order to advance on this path, DER Touristik will be requiring 100 % of the management and
property hotels to have Travellife certification by 2025. 

Also for the companies in the destinations, DER Touristik wants to ensure a good sustainability standard and therefore the so-called DMCs (Destination Management Companies) complete a Travellife certification by 2025. 

Climate change is changing our world, making it one of the biggest threats of the 21st century. A first decisive step towards more climate-friendly travel is transparency: Emissions are calculated uniformly and presented for employees and customers, so that more climate-friendly travel could be offered and booked in the future. 

DER Touristik has therefore led the Centre for Sustainable Tourism together with Futouris (ZENAT) mandates to compile a market overview of the existing climate accounting systems. The overview showed that there are already good calculation bases for emissions from air traffic and methods that also determine the climate impact of other travel components. However, there is no climate accounting standard covering all elements of the tourism value chain and at the same time that would be accepted from as many partners as possible as an industry standard.

That’s why DER Touristik is now actively involved in Futouris’ industry project “Klimabewusst reisen”. By the end of October 2022, Futouris members develop in cooperation with the Institute for Sustainable Development Tourismus GmbH and the German Travel Association DRV a standard for climate accounting of Travel to find industry-wide support. 
 

On the basis of this standard, CO2 emissions will be reported uniformly for all journeys in the future. 
This is how customers can make an informed decision and the industry’s absolute emissions 
substantially and measurably lowered.