Aruba´s Hotels Win Caribbean Green Globe Awards

Cathy Parsons, CEO of Green Globe Asia Pacific and GGAP International, and Sir Royston Hopkins, Chairman of the Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism, today announced the winners of the first Caribbean Green Globe Awards.

Amsterdam Manor Beach Resort in Aruba has won the Award for Best Overall Green Globe business in recognition of its most outstanding benchmarked results.

Manchebo Beach Resort and Spa, also in Aruba was announced as the winner of the Most Improved category demonstrating how a business can significantly improve its environmental performance over a 12 months period.

Cathy Parsons also commended those operations that had shown significant improvement in their Benchmarked performance over the previous 12 months.

“Manchebo Beach resort successfully achieved 6 indicators at or above Best Practice after its first year of Benchmarking. Other wonderful results were achieved by Amsterdam Manor Beach Resort, Playa Linda Beach Resort and Bucuti Beach Resort”, Mrs. Parsons concluded.

This is the first time that these Green Globe awards have been made in the Caribbean. It is proposed that similar international awards will be announced during the Green Globe and Green Tourism Caribbean conference, to be held in Jamaica in November.