Category "Sustainable Event Centre"
Festspielhaus Bregenz has won the Meeting Experts Green Award 2013 in the category "Sustainable Event Centre". The award was presented for the first time by the European Association of Event Centres (EVVC) and by the German Convention Bureau at the conference “green meetings and events” in Darmstadt.
The award was accepted by the General Manager of the Festspielhaus Bregenz, Gerhard Stübe. The congress and convention centre on Lake Constance has thus won another significant award for its activities as an event organizer.
Jury statements
“The case of Bregenz demonstrates very impressively that successes in sustainability entail not only costs, but also and above all gains for all concerned,” said the jury in its decision. The question of sustainability with all three elements – the environment, cost-effectiveness and social commitment – has been permanently on the agenda of the location since 2008, and in all three areas there has been continuous work on specific proposals for improvements, it said.
“Caterers are contractually obliged to use sustainable products, a waste management concept has been developed, a project on the town’s biggest photovoltaic plant has been launched, sport and health programmes are available for staff, social initiatives and charities are supported – to name but a few examples of the application of sustainability principles. For the past years the Festspielhaus Bregenz has been certified by Ökoprofit as an environmentally aware hospitality institution and has been authorized to certify Green Meetings itself,” the two organizations behind the award said in a statement.
