Lee Hawkins
Project Officer, Healthy Heart program in the Whitsundays Climate Change Innovation Hub
If you’re developing a new tourism business, get things right from the start. EarthCheck’s feasibility and pre-feasibility reporting gives you a comprehensive assessment from visioning through to marketing demand and financing opportunities, so you can proceed with confidence.
Our experts have helped hundreds of tourism businesses and destinations globally to get on the right track from the beginning.
The EarthCheck team will carry out:
With any new business venture, you need to ensure it stacks up. EarthCheck has helped launch new tourism businesses for three decades, and ensured that they have the right plan to reach their goals and stay profitable.
We can provide the reality about whether a business idea is commercially viable, and the operating costs associated with the ongoing operations of a tourism business.
With any new business venture, you need to ensure it stacks up. EarthCheck has helped launch new tourism businesses for three decades, and ensured that they have the right plan to reach their goals and stay profitable.
We can provide the reality about whether a business idea is commercially viable, and the operating costs associated with the ongoing operations of a tourism business.
New businesses require goods, services, materials and property. By getting the right numbers before you invest, you minimse your impact on the planet and can build a sustainable, profitable business from the ground up.
Lee Hawkins
Project Officer, Healthy Heart program in the Whitsundays Climate Change Innovation Hub
There are more than 476 million Indigenous Peoples, found in all regions of the world, from the Arctic to the tropical forests. They make up more than 6 per cent of our global population.
In the spirit of reconciliation, EarthCheck acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout the world and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Indigenous Peoples today.
EarthCheck acknowledges that Indigenous Peoples are guardians of the forests and biodiversity hotspots we all depend on. Research shows that lands managed by Indigenous Peoples, with secure rights, experience lower deforestation rates, store more carbon, hold more biodiversity, and benefit more people than other lands — including protected areas.
We recognise and support the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), the most comprehensive international instrument on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Declaration is a positive document that maps out a path for Indigenous Peoples to be free from discrimination and secure in their identities and life choices.
EarthCheck science and products were developed by the Australian Government Sustainable Tourism Co-operative Research Centre (STCRC) over ten years. Our science is reviewed annually to ensure that it meets international standards relative to greenhouse gas protocols, responsible tourism, and certification.
EarthCheck products and services are built on the Agenda 21 principles for Sustainable Development endorsed by 182 Heads of State at the United Nations Rio De Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992 and aligned to the SDGs.
EarthCheck Certified provides a framework for organisations to achieve the desired outcomes for sustainable development as set out in the final report of the World Summit for Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg in 2002.
EarthCheck Certified complies with the Mohonk Agreement (2000), which outlines the guidelines and principles for an international sustainable tourism certification program. It is also a Recognised program of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC).
EarthCheck Certified is a verification standard accepted by CDP. It is also an approved program of the Certification and Accreditation Administration of the People’s Republic of China (CNCA), London & Partners, the Mexican Secretary of Tourism (SECTUR) and the City of Sydney.
EarthCheck Certified is an approved program for meeting the EU Energy Directive for the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (Bundesamt für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle – BAFA) in Germany and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy) in the Netherlands.
EarthCheck partners with international research organisations to maintain the currency of EarthCheck science and our benchmarking systems.
The EarthCheck brand signifies scientific excellence, better environmental, economic, and social performance, improved community interactions, and savings through more efficient use of resources. It provides recognition and promotional support to a global consumer market.
