Valpas and Select Green Hotels are bringing bed bug-safe certification into the booking experience for the first time. Travellers using the sustainable hotel platform will now be able to see which hotels hold Valpas certification making “bed bug-safe” a visible, verifiable attribute before a reservation is made.. “Bed bug safety belongs where every other hotel standard already lives: in the booking flow, visible to the traveller before they decide” says Martim Gois, Co-Founder and CEO of Valpas. “Select Green Hotels shares our belief that trust should be built before not after arrival. This is what it looks like when a new hotel category becomes real and bookable.”. Select Green Hotels curates more than 100 handpicked sustainable and well-designed hotels across Europe and Africa. Members meet rigorous standards including sustainable waste management, renewable energy use, environmental conservation, and local community support. Until now, these sustainability credentials have centred on energy, water, and waste. By making Valpas certification visible, Select Green Hotels adds a dimension that has long been missing from sustainable hospitality: non-toxic, pesticide-free guest rooms extending its commitment from what surrounds the hotel to what happens inside it.. According to Isabelle Winter, Founder of the hotel booking portal, “by combining Select Green Hotel’s sustainability curation with Valpas’ verified safety standard, we create a new category of hospitality: conscious travel backed by evidence. Hotels that meet both criteria will stand out in an increasingly competitive landscape, where trust is becoming the ultimate currency”.. Valpas certification is a globally recognised bed bug safety standard for hotels, acknowledged by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) and the World Sustainable Hospitality Alliance (WSHA). It is enabled by proprietary in-room technology that intercepts bed bugs travellers may unknowingly carry in, ensuring rooms remain safe permanently, and without pesticides. When every room is equipped and digitally verified, the hotel earns Valpas certification, a continuous, verifiable proof of safety that now extends into the platforms where travellers search and book. The integration with Select Green Hotels marks the first time this standard is visible directly in a booking flow, allowing travellers and travel buyers to identify bed bug-safe hotels before they reserve.. ADVERTISEMENT
