Hotel booking site adds social & green to room booking
Bookdifferent partners with Booking.com to offer sustainable hotel rooms plus… 50% goes to bookers charity
The aim of hotel site http://www.bookdifferent.com is to make travel both sustainable and social.
Someone looking for a green hotel is no longer dependent on specialized sites. The Eco-label is a search criteria which can be selected just like Wi-Fi, hotel facilities or town district.
BookDifferent offers 443,000 worldwide accommodations in 200 countries. Bookdifferent.com offers 5.800 hotels that have been awarded one or more eco-labels. They have teamed up with the top 10 of high standard quality eco labels focusing on the leisure and tourism industry including Green Tourism, Travelife, Green Key, Green Globe, and Nordic Swan.
Says Book Different "Social means creating a world with an equal share of wealth for everybody."
Therefore BookDifferent.com donates 50% its earnings of every booked hotel room to a charity of the choice of the booker. The booker doesn’t pay one cent more for this. They can choose from more than 80 charity organizations and their projects e.g. WWF, Amnesty International, AWI, Greenpeace, GoodPlanet and Unicef.
BookDifferent is a not-for-profit foundation in the Netherlands and is part of the Social Enterprise Network.
Valere Tjolle
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