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SÜRPO® offers its patented and copyrighted sustainable tourism management system to the tourism sector with its registered trademark.
SÜRPO® is a "Digital Sustainability Management System" program, established as a first in our country. SÜRPO® serves the tourism sector as a verified digital program that can be used in the digital environment for businesses without using any documents, with its registered trademark, patented and copyrighted sustainable tourism management system.
Thanks to the SÜRPO® operating system and platform, businesses can continuously present their sustainability projects in an active and up-to-date manner through a single platform, ready for audits by certification bodies.
In the SÜRPO® platform and operating system, no data is taken outside the business; it is stored digitally in an up-to-date manner within the business's own data sources, and access is provided only within the cycle of the business and audit organizations.
According to the World Tourism Organization, sustainable tourism is "tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities".
Sustainable tourism should ensure high tourist satisfaction while raising tourists' awareness of sustainability issues and encouraging them to adopt sustainable tourism practices. Achieving sustainable tourism is an ongoing process. It requires continuous monitoring of impacts, taking necessary preventive and/or corrective measures when needed.
SÜRPO® closely follows green growth standards within the scope of UN Development Goals and provides the legal regulations, standards and criteria of the following organizations to business operators digitally:
Within the scope of ensuring the adoption and implementation of the sustainability approach in the tourism sector, which has a large share in economic activities in Türkiye, the Türkiye Sustainable Tourism Program was launched with the circular numbered 2022/2 published by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on November 15, 2022.
In order to comply with the criteria of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), which plays a determining role in the international arena, the Türkiye Sustainable Tourism Program Criteria (TR-I) were developed in cooperation with sector stakeholders and international organizations under the leadership of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Tourism Promotion and Development Agency (TGA).
SÜRPO® Digital Sustainable Tourism Management System is developed in line with the principles of the following international standards; it offers its digital, eco-friendly and sustainable practices to business operators.
Quality Management System principles
Environmental Management System principles
Information Security Management System principles
To ensure standard practices of the sustainable tourism program being implemented in our country across the entire sector, to provide a green service to our future world with minimum impact by reducing energy, waste and consumption costs through the digital program, and to support businesses' sustainability programs directly with green impacts by minimizing the consumption of all stationery and business materials.