The Travelife Sustainability System is a practical tool for hotels and apartments to monitor and manage their social and environmental impacts and is wholly owned by ABTA Ltd. 1,219 hotels worldwide have been audited by the Travelife Sustainability System, and currently 522 hotels hold a Travelife Bronze, Silver or Gold award, and more are subscribing to the system every week. You can find out more about the hotels that have signed up to Travelife on travelifecollection.com, which can all be booked through ABTA Members.

By booking a Travelife awarded hotel or apartment, customers can be sure that the property is taking steps to protect the environment and support employees and local communities.

Holiday properties signed up to the Travelife scheme are inspected by an independent trained auditor and depending on their performance may achieve Travelife Bronze, Silver and Gold awards which can then be displayed in the hotel, and in tour operator brochures and websites. 
 
The Travelife Sustainability System provides all kinds of help and guidance to holiday properties and companies on how to be more socially responsible and how to reduce, reuse and recycle.

35 tour operators now use Travelife Hotels and display the awards in their brochures and on their websites. These operators include the UK household names of: Airtours, Cosmos Holidays, Hayes & Jarvis, Kuoni, Neilson, Sovereign, Sunvil, Co-operative Travel, Thomas Cook, TUI (ie Thomson, First Choice, Sovereign) and Virgin Holidays.

Travelife is also used by other international tour operators in Scandinavia, Germany, France, Holland and Canada.

Nikki White, who heads up Travelife’s Operations said: “The Travelife awards are a great of way of providing ever-more demanding customers with the information they require to make more responsible holiday choices, and so we are encouraged by the steady uptake of the Travelife Sustainability System. Sustainability has risen up the agenda for major international tour operators as they recognise its importance to the long-term health of the industry, so there is still a huge opportunity for Travelife to grow further.”