More than 6,000 hotels in Turkey (Türkiye) have been certified to stage one of the country’s groundbreaking sustainable tourism programme, developed with the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC).
No more than a few thousand hotels worldwide have achieved full certification to these standards to date. But by the end of September, 6,156 of Turkey’s 22,000 properties – mainly in Antalya, İstanbul and Muğla – had been certified to stage-one compliance, meeting 14 GSTC criteria. They won’t be able to rest there though.
Stage-two compliance requires they meet 28 criteria, and stage three 42 criteria for full certification.