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January 8th, 2008 in Awards and Events • Destinations and Tourism

First “Seven-Tree” Rating Awarded by TheBestGreenHotels.com

TheBestGreenHotels.com, an online ratings service geared toward eco-friendly hotel operations, has announced its first-ever award of “seven trees”—the website’s highest possible rating—to the Old Chapel Forge Bed & Breakfast in Sussex, United Kingdom; a AAA four-star hotel built in and around a 1611 chapel building.
“The seven-tree rating is not easy to come by,” says Kit [...]

TheBestGreenHotels.com, an online ratings service geared toward eco-friendly hotel operations, has announced its first-ever award of “seven trees”—the website’s highest possible rating—to the Old Chapel Forge Bed & Breakfast in Sussex, United Kingdom; a AAA four-star hotel built in and around a 1611 chapel building.

“The seven-tree rating is not easy to come by,” says Kit Cassingham, founder of TheBestGreenHotels.com. “We are very pleased to present this hard-earned award to the Old Chapel Forge.”

The website rates properties based on almost 30 criteria, including recycling, energy conservation, laundry services, alternative energy and water recycling. It is actually one of many online services focusing on the environmental hospitality industry, travelers as well as businesses are finding that not only is “green travel” better for the environment, it actually helps to reduce businesses’ operating costs.

TheBestGreenHotels.com and its sister site, EnvironmentallyFriendlyHotels.com, currently have ratings on more than 2,800 hotels worldwide. The ratings service has been cited in the Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, the New York Times, and on MSNBC.