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The Seychelles Sustainable Tourism Label (SSTL) which is an initiative of the Government of Seychelles and is being implemented by its Ministry responsible for tourism has obtained Recognition Status with the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC). This is a great step forward for the SSTL which in 2015 also partnered with the Fair Trade Tourism of Africa in its endeavour to enhance local and international credibility and visibility for this label.

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Hilton Labriz Resort and Spa of Silhouette Island and the Anse Forbans Chalets on the Main island of Mahe have been added on the list of tourism establishments that are Seychelles Sustainable Tourism Label (SSTL) certified.

A certificate presentation ceremony was held this week at the ESPACE Building offices of the Minister for Tourism and Culture Alain St.Ange.

Present at the ceremony were the principal secretary for tourism Anne Lafortune, cluster director of business development for the Hilton Seychelles Hotels Smital Shah-Boultwood and Brigitte Haworth from the Anse Forbans Chalets.

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Fair Trade Tourism's expansion into Africa has been given a boost through its signing of a Mutual Recognition Agreement with Seychelles Sustainable Tourism Label (SSTL). The agreement, signed this week, enables six of the Indian Ocean island nation’s leading hotels to be marketed under the Fair Trade Holiday brand. The six hotels under Seychelles Sustainable Tourism Label are: • Berjaya Beau Vallon Bay Resort and Casino, Mahe • Banyan Tree Seychelles Resort, Mahe • Constance Ephelia Resort, Mahe • Hanneman's Holiday Residence, Mahe • Kempinski Seychelles Resort, Mahe • Heliconia Grove, Praslin

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The Seychelles Sustainable Tourism Label is moving forward!

Further to our signing of the MOU with Fair Trade Tourism in July of this year, we are pleased to announce the next step towards international recognition for our label.

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Heliconia Grove, a locally owned self-catering establishment at Cote d’Or on Praslin Island has been certified as a Seychelles Sustainable Tourism Label (SSTL) product.

The Seychelles Sustainable Tourism Label certificate is a sustainable tourism management and certification programme designed specifically for use in Seychelles. It aims to inspire more efficient and sustainable ways of doing business.

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Three tourism establishments – Berjaya Beau Vallon Bay Resort & Casino, Hanneman Holiday Residence and Ephelia Resort – have been re-certified with the Seychelles Sustainable Tourism Label (SSTL).

The general managers of the three establishments received their re-certification certificate by the Minister for Tourism and Culture Alain St Ange in a ceremony yesterday afternoon at the ministry’s conference room at Espace building.

Also present were the principal secretary for tourism Anne Lafortune and the director for certification and standards Sinha Levkovic.
The three establishments were certified in 2012 after accumulating the required 60 points. They were re-assessed in 2014 and as they scored the 10 extra points required by SSTL, this qualified them for re-certification.

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The Seychelles Minister for Tourism and Culture has pledged to spread the message to the world, “Seychelles has a label that promotes sustainable tourism.”

Alain St.Ange, Minister for Tourism and Culture, made this pledge to three tourism establishments re-certified with the Seychelles Sustainable Tourism Label (SSTL).

Berjaya Beau Vallon Bay Resort, Constance Ephelia Resort, and Hanneman Holiday Residence, initially certified in 2012 with the Seychelles Sustainable Tourism Label, after having accumulated the minimum 60 points, have now been re-certified with the label.

After two years of certifying tourism establishments, the tourism establishments were re-assessed in 2014. Hotels which scored 10 extra points were re-certified with the label.

It was Minister St.Ange who was given the honor of presenting the three tourism establishments with their labels.

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Contributed by Sustainability for Seychelles for SHTA newsletter

Anyone who has spent a little time overseas is probably dismayed at the apparent lack of waste sorting and recycling in Seychelles. It is true that we do not have the same recycling services but there are some good reasons for this. We produce a lot of waste per capita, but because our population is tiny, the total amounts have typically not been enough to make export economically viable, with a few exceptions. The costs to ship waste to recycling markets overseas is high, and there is also the carbon footprint of transport and the recycling process to consider.

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The Seychelles Sustainable Tourism Label (SSTL) has awarded Banyan Tree Seychelles Resort and Kempinski Seychelles Resort with a sustainable tourism certificate each.


This took place at the Grand Seychelles Ball on September 21 at the Berjaya Beau Vallon Bay Resort and Casino. The Minister for Tourism and Culture, Alain St Ange, presented the awards to representatives of the hotels.

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