Green Policy

At Blue Chip Vacations we are committed to providing high quality accommodation in the South West in the most environmentally sustainable manner we can. We are very proud to have been awarded the Silver GTBS award. The GTBS is the leading sustainable tourism certification scheme in the UK, with over 1400 members.  Businesses are assessed against a rigorous set of criteria covering a range of areas like energy and water efficiency, waste management, biodiversity and more.

For more information on GTBS please see www.green-business.co.uk

In addition to achieving our GTBS award Blue Chip Vacations are working closely with the World Land Trust through whom we have offset the unavoidable carbon emissions produced by our head office. We are also offering guests the opportunity to offset the carbon emissions associated with an average Blue Chip Vacation. The offset addresses the electricity use (based on 4 people sharing a holiday home for one week) and the travel to and from the holiday home in an average family car. All donations are passed to the World Land Trust who use the funds to deliver offsets through restoration ecology projects, which restore and protect areas of threatened tropical forest, helping to conserve endangered wildlife.

If you would like more information on the World Land Trust please see www.worldlandtrust.org or www.carbonbalanced.org 

GREEN POLICY

As part of our commitment to provide high quality accommodation in the South West in the most environmentally sustainable manner we aim to ensure that we have good environmental practice in all aspects of our business; that we will meet the minimum requirements set by environmental law and fulfill our legal duty of care requirements for waste disposal. We aim to minimise the harmful effects and maximise the beneficial influences of all aspects of our business.

In order to do this there are a number of measures we seek to undertake, including:

• Minimising our office waste through recycling, reusing and reducing waste.
• Monitoring the use of natural resources within head office to ensure these are kept as low as possible and to detect leaks at the earliest opportunity.
• Encouraging our guests to use public transport to travel to the South West and/or use local public transport during their stay.
• Encouraging staff to use public transport, walk or car share for the purposes of commuting and business meetings where feasible. 
• Purchasing from local and/or fair trade companies wherever possible. 
• Using only environmentally sensitive products in the cleaning of our head office and encouraging our owners to use these in the cleaning and preparation of properties. 
• Sending all correspondence for bookings via email where possible. 
• Providing recycling facilities for paper and glass in all of our properties where recycling collections are available.
• Offering guests who no longer require our brochure the facility to send this back to us for us to recycle or reuse. 
• On arrival, providing guests with information on what they can do to help.