Virginia Green Travel Alliance Announces Winners of the 2025 Virginia Green Travel Star Awards at the 12th Annual Virginia Green Travel Conference on March 20th!
The Virginia Green Travel Alliance is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024/25 Virginia
Green Travel Star & Leader Awards. These awards are presented annually to Virginia’s greenest tourism
operators and partners for their outstanding commitments to sustainability and contributions to green tourism in
Virginia. The awards are presented in conjunction with the 12th Annual Virginia Green Travel Conference that was
held March 20-21, 2025 at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia.
This year, ten (10) Virginia tourism operators were chosen to receive the Virginia Green Travel program’s highest
award, the Virginia Green Travel Star Award. Seven (7) additional tourism businesses were recognized with the
Virginia Green Travel Leader Award for their continued commitments to environmental stewardship, and six (6)
individuals received the Green Team All-Star Award for their efforts to lead their organizations’ green programs.
Seven (7) organizations also received honorable mention recognition for their continued efforts as committed
Virginia Green Travel Partners.
“The Virginia Green Travel Certification program works to support and recognize tourism businesses and
organizations that are committed to reducing the environmental impacts of their operations,” says Tom Griffin, the
Executive Director of the Virginia Green Travel Alliance. “Through the Travel Star Awards, we get to recognize the
‘greenest’ businesses and individuals that have demonstrated outstanding effort and achievements in the past
year. We are proud to recognize these businesses as they are true partners in our efforts to promote sustainable
tourism in Virginia!”
The Virginia Green Travel program is run through a partnership between the Virginia Department of
Environmental Quality, the Virginia Tourism Corporation, Virginia State Parks, the Virginia Restaurant, Lodging &
Travel Association, and the Virginia Green Travel Alliance. The program encourages green practices in all sectors
of Virginia’s tourism industry. More than 1,200 businesses and partner organizations have voluntarily certified their green commitments through the Virginia Green Travel program.
