Good for nature. Convenient for you.

This special cooperation of HCC and Deutsche Bahn enables you to save travel costs! Get on the train and benefit from these attractive prices and conditions for this offer will serve both you and nature well. Every journey by train saves on avarage two thirds of CO2 compared to a car trip, and compared to a journey by plane it even saves 75% CO2.

Prices for a round trip* ticket to Hannover are:

2nd class 99.00 Euro
1st class 159.00 Euro

This offer is valid for all events at the HCC in 2011 and 2012. You save up to 139.00 Euros compared to a regular train ticket in the 2nd class (Munich-Hannover-Munich).***

Your train ticket is valid from January, 20 until December 31, 2012. Book your ticket by calling the service number +49 (0)1805 - 31 11 53** with „HCC“ as reference, and please keep your credit card at hand for payment. We wish you a pleasant journey with Deutsche Bahn!

* Pre-booking deadline is minimum 3 days. Only special trains and sale only while stocks last. Replacement and reimbursement before the first day of validity 15 €, thereafter impossible. For an extra charge of 20 € you may purchase fully flexible train tickets without limitation to special trains for travelling Mondays to Thursdays.

** The Hotline can be reached from Mondays to Saturdays between 8:00 and 21:00. Calls cost 14 cent a minute from a German landline, maximum 42 cent from mobile providers.

*** Prices are subject to change. Errors and omissions excepted.

Green Globe Certification today announced recertification of Hannover Congress Centrum (HCC). This landmark congress center has achieved 94% of all sustainability criteria and has set a new benchmark for environmental and socially responsible management within the events industry.

Green Globe Certification CEO, Guido Bauer said, ‘Hannover Congress Centrum has implemented the philosophy of sustainability at all levels. And at a practical level all employees, as a well as clients, now get detailed information about the green operations of the Congress Centrum.‘

Mr. Wohlers, the Environmental Officer of HCC, should be congratulated for his excellent leadership in preparing for the verification stage of recertification. HCC has done an outstanding job to attain 263 sustainability indicators out of 282 available’, added Mr Bauer.

Hannover Congress Centrum Director, Joachim König said, ‘For us it is a on-going process that we work at to ensure we receive recertification for our Congress Centre in Hannover. Importantly we have topped our result from the original certification. Having achieved this is convincing proof of the good progress our team has delivered in the past year.’

Hannover Congress Centrum, Facility-Management Department-Manager, Lutz Wohlers added, ‘Our vision was to get the process integrated into every day work. This effort has now been rewarded by having achieved 94% of all sustainability indicators. This give us great encouragement to continue the process in our Congress Centre. Furthermore many specific topics of the recertification process were very useful for examining our processes overall and assessing the quality of our technical equipment.’

The Green Globe Standard for Events has been adopted by the European Association of Event Centers (EVVC) as the meeting industry standard for sustainability. Meet representatives from Green Globe Certification at IMEX America and discover the variety of incentive, conference and meeting options available from Green Globe’s worldwide database of sustainable hotels and convention centre in 88 countries.   

About Green Globe Certification
Green Globe Certification is the worldwide sustainability system based on internationally accepted criteria for sustainable operation and management of travel and tourism businesses. Operating under a worldwide license, Green Globe Certification is based in California, USA and is represented in over 83 countries. Green Globe is the only certification brand to be an affiliate member of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) an agency of the United Nations, and is partly owned by the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC). For information visit www.greenglobe.com

In 2010, the Hannover Congress Centrum was awarded the international certificate for sustainability as first congress centre in Lower Saxony. It also received a European best mark.

The Green Globe Certification is a globaly recognized certificate in the event business which evaluates the ecological, economic and social sustainability of the event and congress locations.

The HCC received the highest rating of all similar institutions in Europe, said Dr. Peter Zimmer, Auditor of Green Globe at the presentation of the certification. The 125 auditing criteria on the basis of which the HCC was judged are numerous: reduction of water and energy consumption by using renewable energy sources, barrier-free ways, contract partners and suppliers from out of the region as well as a progressive waste disposal concept.