A regular feed of venues that have started or attained their Green Tourism Accreditation will be received on a monthly basis from Green Tourism.
The data will include the venue name, address, postcode etc. and also the Green Tourism Level accreditation attained and their unique 3rd party ID.
The feed will be received initially via a spreadsheet as Green Tourism are still in the process of setting up their API for us to connect to.
When a data feed is received from Green Tourism - this will be received monthly from Diane Knight (diane@green-tourism.com) and will be sent to:
both elaine.long@venuedirectory.com and venuesupport@venuedirectory.com
The data will include new venues, any that have lost accreditation and those whose accreditation level has changed. It should not be the whole venue list of all venues who have attained accreditation with them - only the changes.
The venue will need the 3rd party ID adding/removing from the venue data. To update this:
- Log into www.myeventschannel.com
- Search for the required venue
- Click Admin Only
- Click 3rd Party ID’s
- Add or delete the required 3rd party ID and save
The venue will need the accreditation added/changed/removed from their venue data - Click Brands & Affiliations
- Click Accreditations & Awards
- Select the Green Tourism level attained - choose from Green Tourism Bronze, Green Tourism Silver or Green Tourism Gold. If the venue is still going through the accreditation process, they will have the accreditation, Green Tourism Awaiting Grading.
- If the venue has changed its grading, please amend the accreditation to the correct level and delete the out of date accreditation using the Bin Icon.
- If the venue no longer has a Green Tourism accreditation, click on the Bin icon to remove it.
- Click Save
If the venue is not listed please contact the venue and let them know we are working with green tourism - partner - and they have advised us your venue has gained this accreditation, explain a bit of what we do and see if they are happy to have a free basic listing
When a request is received from the venue to update their Green Tourism Accreditation, either through email a ticket or the approvals queue
This is what you need to do if this comes in via the approvals queue
1. Delete the text relating to the Green Tourism Award from the award details box as in the screenshot below.
2. Update the accreditation to display Green Tourism Awaiting Grading
This is what you need to do if this comes in via a Freshdesk Ticket
Respond to the ticket using:
Green Tourism Response Canned Response:
Set the ticket type to Green Tourism and set the status to Pending
Add the venue to this sheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N-jHfiySyPZ0CLbUcGbu5nPI0yU7sWO0qT5SIWj6_0s/edit#gid=0
And when we receive the monthly sheet from green tourism cross ref the above sheet with that to confirm what accreditation to apply to the listing.
Apply the accreditation as defined in the sheet
If the venue does not appear on the monthly sheet then please email
Email Diane Knight (diane@green-tourism.com) to request confirmation of the venue’s award
When the sheet from Diane has been completed , highlight any new venues and any venues which have upgraded to a higher level and send the sheet to Michael Begley