About Meetings for Trees
Meetings for Trees is a sublabel of Hotels for Trees which was founded in May 2021 and has a Dutch ANBI status (special charity trademark including tax benefits for people who donate). The foundation is non-profit, headed by a board of three and overseen by a Supervisory Board. All donations are spend on (re)forestation projects or used for running or growing Hotels for Trees.
Partners
As an independent non-profit initiative Meetings for Trees is not linked to any specific country, brand, venue chain, venue size or star rating.
On the contrary, we are are extremely proud of our partnership with meeting venues in the Netherlands.
Click here for the complete overview of our meeting venue partners and their results so far!
Founding Partner
Meetingselect is specialized in meeting management and offers the largest meeting distribution system and online venue sourcing & meeting booking tool with more than 500.000 meeting spaces worldwide. Venues range from traditional hotels and conference spaces to unique venues such as farmhouses, country houses and castles, golf clubs, villas, museums and ships.
The unique self-booking tool Meetingselect.com is linked to a meeting management information system that helps companies easily understand their meeting costs and makes it easier to comply with internal travel & meeting policies.
The web-based technology of Meetingselect automates cost and time consuming elements of meeting management. From planning meetings to venue sourcing, from analyzing reports to measuring savings. With the use of the self-booking tool for meetings and group reservations, meeting planners and purchasers can source their preferred and non-preferred hotels and meeting venues worldwide. Next to the online service, Meetingselect offers a personal reservation service for external meetings and group reservations.
Meeting Partner
YOIN excellent meeting places is the reliable quality brand for congress and event locations. YOIN advises, supports and assesses locations on quality, expertise, reliability, innovation, service and sustainability. Hotel partners of Hotels for Trees receive a higher score during YOIN audits and are put in the spotlight through this platform towards meeting and event planners who consider sustainability an important factor when choosing a location.
Furthermore, YOIN’s network provides for high-quality exchange and development of knowledge, so that participating professionals are continuously supported in their corporate and individual development and professionalisation.
Forestation partner
For the execution of the (re-)forestation projects Hotels for Trees collaborates with Trees for All, a Dutch foundation which was founded in 1999. Trees for All is the most experienced player when it comes to offering CO2 compensation options in The Netherlands.
Since its start, Trees for All has planted over 5 million trees and compensated over 320 thousand tons of polluting CO2 (as per March 2021). Trees for All applies a range of quality criteria such as conformity with local forestry legislation, guarantees of sustainability, involvement of the local population and the impact on the environment, people and animals
Ambassadors
From day one, both these gentlemen have been strong supporters of the success of Hotels for Trees .
With his company, New Busines Lab, Matthijs supports with the organization of creating and implementing socially, responsible and sustainable business models. In March 2020 Matthijs published a practical book for people that want to make an impact and contribute to a more sustainable and socially responsible world.
As a change agent, connector and entrepreneur within the Haarlemmermeer region, Gertjan played a key role in the creation of Hotels for Trees. It was a workshop by Matthijs in which Gertjan shared his Purpose Case and story, which gave founder Floris Licht a much needed final push that started the creation of Hotels for Trees and Meetings for Trees.
Friend of the foundation and sparring partner from the start.
Together with his company, Van Diemen PR, Casper voluntarily took care of the creation of the website of Hotels for Trees. Next to this, he created the website of Meetings for Trees oversaw the development of the software that makes participating to both initiatives very easy for all parties involved. Finally, he played a vital role as sparring partner of founder Floris Licht when it came to creating the story and proposition for this initiative.