GREEN STARS CLASSIFICATION SCHEME GUIDELINES
The standards for Green STARS were developed in a partnership between AAA Tourism and Green
Globe under the guidance of the Australian Government established Sustainable Tourism
Cooperative Research Centre.
This partnership ensures that the Green STARS criteria is appropriate and will allow a property joining
the program to progress to an internationally recognised Green Globe endorsement if it chooses.
Green Globe provides the travel and tourism industry with a global certification system that promotes
responsible tourism and reduces operating costs by conserving energy, fresh water and other natural
resources and producing less waste and green house gases.
Green STARS provides accommodation properties with an entry level introduction (Affiliate level) to
the internationally recognised Green Globe system.
To be awarded a Green STARS endorsement the property must achieve the designated minimum
point score against the set of practical environmental criteria.
Within AAA Tourism guidelines, points will be awarded where a property does not provide an energy
saving facility/item that would otherwise have been recognised by the scheme. In effect, the non
provision of the facility/item contributes to energy saving.
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