German National Tourist Office Sustainability Efforts
Green Me: Berlin
For travellers who are keen change-makers, Green Me: Berlin connects them with locals, expats, and the heroes of the Berlin urban green scene through immersive guided tours, podcasts, maps, events, guides & more. Green Me: Berlin is just one company being promoted by the GNTO’s new Feel Good campaign which focuses on providing sustainable travel tips, offers and services that have been carefully researched and verified in collaboration with sustainability experts and tourism specialists in each of the German federal states.
The public transportation network in Germany is one of the best in Europe, and there are many “green” accommodations. The Green Tiny Houses in the Duchy of Lauenburg are 22-square-metre cottages made of Danish wood and Baltic seaweed insulation, situated in the middle of nature. Creativhotel Luise in Erlangen is a climate-positive, renewable hotel in the middle of orchards and meadowland. The Forellenhof Organic Hotel at Bad Endbach is in the densely wooded Lahn-Dill-Bergland Nature Park. There are fair-trade shopping opportunities too, such as the Merchants’ Bridge in Erfurt, where galleries, cafés and boutiques bring locally made and sourced crafts and food to market.