Eagle Beach — Travelife, a fair and affordable system which helps tour operators and travel agencies manage and improve social and environmental impacts, awarded Divi Resorts including Divi Mega Resort and Tamarijn Mega Resort, its second annual Gold Certificate of Excellence for complying with all old and new sustainability criteria, says Marin Bijl, General Manager Divi & Tamarijn All Inclusive Resorts.
Bijl explains that ultimately, when a company meets the requirements, including the new Travelife benchmarking standards, it receives a Travelife award, an initiative launch by travel giant Tui UK, which also supports the hospitality industry on the road to sustainability with a wide range of services including training, management, planning, reporting and B2B tools. The auditor, Bijl adds, was impressed by the thorough documentation, and was especially pleased with Divi’s social and community efforts, including beach clean-ups, and Divi ongoing support of the YMCA in San Nicholas. The in-house activities of the IMPACT team, designed to improve the quality of external and internal community service at Divi’s five resort properties on Aruba received much praise for living up to its name: Improving Motivating and Providing the Aruban Community Together.
The resorts were named the recipients of the TUI Travelife award at the end of a comprehensive sustainable audit conducted here by a visiting TUI Travelife auditor. At the end of her visit the auditor lauded the environmental efforts and achievements obtained to date, and the fact that the resorts complied with the requirements of 99 strict sustainability criteria.
