I have been watching one of the classes of the course. Jane Ashton has been talking about TUI and their sustainable development policy.
I´ve found very intersting the fact that they have their own sustainable catalog to pic your holidays, but also that they have many different certifications to "quantify" how sustainable a resort or hotel is.
Among them we find:
ISO 14000
ISO 9001
ISO 22000
Green Key
Travelife Award
Österreichisches Umweltzeichen
EMAS
Green Globe 21
So now, like we have with LEED, taking over the whole world, we should start working on a global certification where we all can rely to verify the sustainability of our tourist business. Someone in our last section mention that it would be interseting to have an Open Source one, just like Wikipedia... :)
http://www.tui-group.com/en/sustainability/env_management/certifications
27 Oct 2010
19 Oct 2010
The Canary Islands.
Just as an introduction I´d like to show everyone where the Canary Islands are:
Google Maps
The Canary Islands are a "state" themselves in Spain, which means that some of the regulations are common just for this group of islands. There are 7 main islands divided into two provinces: Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the western province formed by 4 islands: El Hierro, La Gomera, La Palma and Tenerife.
The four of them have two main business: agriculture and tourism. Agriculture is becoming a difficult one because the tropical fruits are being brought from Latin America and Africa. Tourism is the one left and it is always growing because of good transportation and the great warm weather all year round (no winter for us!)
The Alisios Winds, the weather and the volcanic origin of the islands are the reason for having lots of Natural reserves. As you can see in this maps there are around xxx Natural reserves in the province:
El Hierro: 7 reserves.
La Palma: 19 reserves.
La Gomera: 16 reserves.
Tenerife: 42 reserves.
Google Maps
The Canary Islands are a "state" themselves in Spain, which means that some of the regulations are common just for this group of islands. There are 7 main islands divided into two provinces: Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the western province formed by 4 islands: El Hierro, La Gomera, La Palma and Tenerife.
The four of them have two main business: agriculture and tourism. Agriculture is becoming a difficult one because the tropical fruits are being brought from Latin America and Africa. Tourism is the one left and it is always growing because of good transportation and the great warm weather all year round (no winter for us!)
The Alisios Winds, the weather and the volcanic origin of the islands are the reason for having lots of Natural reserves. As you can see in this maps there are around xxx Natural reserves in the province:
El Hierro: 7 reserves.
La Palma: 19 reserves.
La Gomera: 16 reserves.
Tenerife: 42 reserves.
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