New Forest Green Leaf Tourism Business Scheme

The New Forest’s special landscape, biodiversity and cultural heritage are the key attractions for our millions of annual visitors. This, coupled with growing consumer awareness of everyone’s responsibilities to look after the world’s natural resources, means visitors to our National Park expect its tourism businesses to deliver evermore responsible services.

The Green Leaf Scheme builds on the New Forest’s recent TripAdvisor accolade of being voted Europe’s favourite National Park. The scheme helps New Forest tourism businesses continue to improve their performance in delivering a more responsible, net zero operation and visitor experience, with the overall aim of making the New Forest the UK’s greenest destination! 

Businesses featured in the links on this webpage have already started their journey towards being a net zero operation by completing a checklist of current and proposed future actions to improve their sustainability performance. The checklist covers eight categories of actions; Responsible Travel, Responsible Visiting, Food & Local Produce, Energy Efficiency, Waste, Water & Re-cycling, Land Use & Nature Conservation, Visitor Stewardship (Care for the forest, care for each other) and Supporting Local Business. 

You can see the businesses which have already achieved either a Gold, Silver or Bronze Green Leaf Award by following the links below, which provide more about what each individual business is doing to reduce their negative outputs on and increase their positive inputs to the New Forest’s unique environment.