Your Roadmap to Hospitality Certification
The real steps to certification, laid out in sixty free minutes. No pitch, just the roadmap.
Next Session
📅 Thursday 12 November 2026
🕚 11:00–12:00 (Irish time)
💻 Online
🎟️ Free & open to all
This is a relaxed, come-as-you-are hour. We’ll talk through how hospitality certification actually works, from the first conversation to getting your certification live on Booking.com, and then open it up to whatever you want to ask.
It’s free and open to anyone who’s curious. Maybe you run a hotel, manage a café, work in a sustainability role, or you’re just trying to figure out what EmpCo means for your business. All are welcome 💚
Who it's for
This is for you if:
- You are a business leader that cares about sustainability done the right way
- You’re the one who gets asked “are we certified yet?” and don’t love the answer you currently give
- Procurement, ops or sustainability sits somewhere in your job title, officially or not
- You’ve heard EmpCo, green claims, or “greenwashing crackdown” mentioned in the same sentence as your hotel and want to know what that actually means for you
- You looked at certification once before and quietly decided it was too big a job for right now
If none of that’s you, no hard feelings, but you’re probably not getting much out of the next hour.
What you'll walk away with
No vague takeaways. By the end, you’ll know:
- What certification actually involves, step by step, not just “sustainability stuff”
- Roughly how long it takes from a standing start
- What it costs, in real numbers, not “it depends” (want the full breakdown? You’ll find it in our downloadable standards guide at the bottom of this page)
- What the tiers mean and which one fits your business capacity
- How certification connects to things like Booking.com’s sustainability filters, and why that actually matters for bookings
No homework, no obligation. Just the roadmap.
Register Your Interest Here!
Why FSG
Hospitality sustainability rules don't exactly sit still. EmpCo, PPWR, whatever comes next!
We keep up with the changing requirements so our certification standards stay relevant, helping hotels demonstrate real sustainability progress, not just make green claims.
Our Hospitality Green Business Certification is also recognised through Travalyst, supporting visibility of certified properties on booking platforms like Booking.com. Because credible sustainability credentials should mean something to the people booking your rooms, too.
We're not here to sell you a sticker. We're here to help you prove you're doing what you say you're doing.
Real Hotels. Real Results.
Sustainability certification isn't just about ticking boxes. It's about recognising the real changes hotels are making, from cutting energy consumption to saving water and bringing their teams along for the journey.
Here's what that looks like in practice.
Mespil Hotel
- A 56% drop in carbon from heating after switching to heat pumps in 2025, compared to 2023 gas use
- AHU upgrades with heat recovery cutting energy consumption by 10%
- A purchasing policy that favours local and Irish suppliers, department by department
Claregalway Hotel
- 13% less water used in 2025 than the two years before it
- Energy use down 10% in a single year, backed up by an SEAI review and a C1 BER rating, not just an internal estimate
- EV chargers, double glazing, and a Green Team that’s met every month since last year
Meet your hosts
Nazia Husain
Head of Sustainability
Cliona O’Halloran
Agent4Change Consulting
Want to dig a little deeper?
Curious about what it actually takes to get your hotel certified?
Our Hospitality Green Business Certification has four levels; Bronze, Silver, Gold and Emerald. Each with clear standards to help you understand where your hotel stands and what you need to work towards.
Whether you're just getting started or already doing great things, you can explore the requirements, evidence needed and how the certification process works.