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2025 Sustainability Regulation FAQs: You Asked, We Answered What Every Destination (Doing Business) In The EU Must Know

2025 Sustainability Regulation FAQs: You Asked, We Answered What Every Destination (Doing Business) In The EU Must Know

Get answers to EU sustainability regulation FAQs here to make sense of GCD, CSRD, (EC)GTD, legislation, risks, and opportunities.

With the EU ramping up enforcement of its Green Deal policies in 2025, businesses, destinations, and public bodies face increasing pressure to comply with complex and evolving sustainability regulations.

You are probably asking, “what’s changing?”, “what’s required?”,”how do we comply and even lead and succeed through it”?

Staying ahead of the curve is no longer optional, it’s strategic, and it’s also a golden opportunity in a “greenscape” of change and need. With that in mind, we’ve recently been busy getting you up to speed.

Understanding EU Sustainability Regulations: Your Essential FAQs Answered

1. We began with an update in February 2025 about the simplification of the Green Deal. This prompted some deeper research. In collaboration with the European Travel Commission (ETC), we then created a comprehensive guide and report to help you make sense of what these changes mean for your operations, supply chains, and destinations. (Here’s the press release with links to the presentation, audio recording, and white paper)

EU White paper - Front page for web

A Destination´s Guide to the New EU Sustainability Regulations

What tourism management organisations need to know

2. We recently hosted a dedicated webinar which was well-attended and highly engaging, and where we welcomed many burning questions.

3. We then published an update to the Green Claims Directive that has put its form and its future in question.

Now, we present you with a series of these commonly asked questions guided by concerned, committed destinations on a journey towards greater regeneration together. What will it take to lead in this area? Why should we work together, not against one another? What benefits are there to basing all communications on verified data and continual measurement? We answer these and more in our FAQs designed to support you to better navigate the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape with greater clarity, confidence, and integrity.

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Next Steps

We invite participating GDS-Index destinations to send us further questions here.

  • If you aren’t already part of the GDS-Index, you can find out more (including how to join) here.
  • If you’re looking for tailored destination sustainability support, we can help you here.
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