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Enjoy England Gold Winner Award for Excellence 2008
Cottage Lodge New Forest Bed and Breakfast is delighted to be chosen out of 900 entries to be awarded Gold at Visit Britain's Enjoy England Awards For Excellence. Now in their 19th year. The awards promote healthy industry competition and high standards, helping to ensure England's place as a world-class destination. Judges visited The New Forest to look at our Bed and Breakfast. They spent two hours checking the way we made our breakfast, the ingredients etc, they looked out our laundering processes, considered the way in which we reduced our impact on the environment and considered us to be the Most Sustainable Tourism Business in the UK. |
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| Tourism South East Tourism ExSELLence Awards 2008 Winner (November) Cottage Lodge, Brockenhurst, New Forest entered for the Best Bed and Breakfast in the South East and was shortlisted to the last three entries. We were delighted to be highly commended. |
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| New Forest Brilliance in Business Awards (Finalist 2008) This is a New Forest award for all types of business. We entered in the Outstanding Service Category. It is very difficult to prove Outstanding Service in such a competitive industry as New Forest Accommodation. The judges came to see our business, spent a great deal of time considering comments from our guests and decided we were worthy of being a finalist. We are delighted and enthused to try and go the extra mile next year to win this award. |
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AA 5 Star Bed & Breakfast Bed & Breakfast
Star ratings, from one to five, are used to assess the standard of the quality you can expect for hotels and bed & breakfast accommodation. The inspector visited our premises and spent almost three hours looking at every space in detail. He considered the quality of everything we did and gave us a 92% rating. |
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Green Tourism Gold Award
Cottage Lodge Bed and Breakfast in Brockenhurst was the first Gold GTBS B&B in the New Forest. Excellence in environmental practice is a difficult thing to achive.
Additional information on this classification scheme is available from The Green Tourism Business Scheme. An inspector visited us for almost three hours and toured the building. Assessed our contribution to reducing our impact and gave us the highest award possible: A gold. |
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Green Leaf Tourism Scheme
Green Leaf Tourism Scheme – This New Forest Accommodation and Tourism business scheme supporting businesses towards a more sustainable future. By choosing a Green Leaf business, you are playing your part in reducing your Carbon Footprint, supporting New Forest wildlife, and distinctive New Forest culture and communities.
Additional information on this classification scheme is available from Green Leaf Tourism Scheme. |
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New Forest Tourism Association
New Forest Tourism Association was formed in 1989 to work in partnership with New Forest District Council to promote the New Forest as a quality year-round holiday and business destination. Today, NFTA works closely with both the New Forest District Council, National Park Authority Forestry Commission to both promote and market the New Forest as one of the premier tourism destinations within the UK. Ower of the Cottage Lodge New Forest Accommodation Christina Simons is chair of the Hotels, Restaurants, Pubs and Inns sector of the hotels group
Additional information on this classification scheme is available from The New Forest. |
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New Forest Marque
The development of the New Forest Marque® means that people can choose food and goods which have been grown, reared, caught, brewed or produced in the New Forest area. It allows local producers to market their produce under a collective and easily identifiable New Forest symbol, whilst at the same time reassuring consumers about the traceability of the food they buy.
Additional information on this classification scheme is available from The New Forest. |
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New Forest Breakfast
Cottage Lodge's owner Christina Simons was part of the team involved in bringing the New Forest Breakfast to New Forest Accommodation providers.
The ‘New Forest Breakfast’ was developed to encourage stronger links between small tourism businesses and local producers in the New Forest. Research in the past undertaken by Tourism South East had shown that B&B’s and small hotels were interested in using local produce in their business but did not know enough about where to source the produce, nor do they find in practical to get produce from a number of different outlets.
Additional information on this classification scheme is available from The New Forest.
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New Forest:
The Most Environmentally Responsible Destination in the World (November 2007 Virgin/Sunday Times)
Cottage Lodge:
Best B&B in the New Forest National Park (August 2007 Guardian Newspaper)
Gold Green Tourism Business Scheme (May 2007)
Winner Sustainable Business of the Year (October 2007 Tourism South East)
Highly Commended Green Hotel of the Year (November 2007 Caterer & Hotelkeeper)
Finalist Business in Brilliance Award (November 2007) |
