This guidance helps tourism and events businesses in Scotland work sustainability considerations into their day-to-day operations and long-term planning.

It includes practical advice and tools to help businesses:

• understand sustainability and net zero legislation
• measure their climate impact using the Climate Impact Guide
• create a climate action plan with realistic targets
• make short, medium and long-term sustainability improvements
• promote responsible tourism and environmentally responsible events
• access resources, templates and case studies for inspiration

The guidance includes videos, tools and real-world examples to help businesses apply the advice in practice.

Anyone can read the guidance, but it's aimed at:

• tourism businesses operating in Scotland
• event organisers and festival managers
• people responsible for operations or sustainability in an organisation
• organisations looking to improve their environmental and community impact

This is a free service.

Some sustainability measures that you choose to implement may involve costs, depending on the type and scale of improvements you make.

Tourism and events businesses in Scotland.

It takes around 2 hours and 10 minutes to work through the full guidance, including watching the videos.

The guidance is modular, so you can complete it at your own pace and focus on the areas most relevant your goals.

Visit the VisitScotland website to read the guidance and access the sustainability tools and resources.