Maximising the saving potential while reducing the impact on the environment:

Accommodation businesses in Europe – examples of good practice

Herbert Hamele

ECOTRANS e.V.European Network for Sustainable Tourism Development

Saarbrücken/ Germany

AER, PRESERVE, Brussels, 05 February 2009

Initiated 1996 by the European Environment Agency (EEA) to promote Sustainable Development by rewarding excellent performance and best practice

The RoyalAwards are protected by HRH Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and HRH Crown Prince Felipe of Spain

The „Royal Awards for Sustainability“

by Royal Awards for Sustainability in collaboration with ECOTRANS (Tourbench project)

• Invitation to certified/awarded accommodation businesses to present their environmental innovations and contributions to the “12 aims for sustainable tourism”(WTO & UNEP)

• Involvement of more than 20 eco-labels and awards for tourism in Europe

• 60 applications in 5 categories from 15 countries nominated by their certificates and then pre-assessed

• International jury selected 22 finalists and the winners in 5 categories

• Ceremony at the 2nd International Rhodes Tourism Forum „Competitiveness through sustainability: opportunities & challenges for the Mediterranean Destinations“ (10-11 Nov. 2006)

Royal Accommodation Award 2006

Successful experiences

Apartamentos FarionesTias/Lanzarote, ESTechnologies: desalination plant

Stranddorf AugustenhofHeringsdorf, DETechnologies : Solar collectors and low-energy house aeration, wood pellet heating system, separation toilets

Category HOLIDAY HOMES

Alma Verde Village & SpaLuz Lagos, PTTechnologies: Cooling system to condition the air of rooms using plastic tubes laid underground, buildings made of adobe.

Hotel StadthalleVienna, ATTechnologies: Solar thermal system for hot water preparation, water flow regulation devices (aerators), grey water toilet flushing, green roofs, BUS building services engineering system

Seehotel WieslerTitisee, DETechnologies: Wood-chip heating with a cyclone for flue gas cleaning, computer system for the managment of the energy consumption, composting.

Category HOTELS

Successful experiences

Biohotel FlorianReith bei Kitzbühel, ATTechnologies: Consequent waste prevention by using reusable containers; waste separation, demand switches, recycled products, organic food and groceries.

Hilton MaltaSt. Julians, MTTechnologies: Low-emission liquefied petroleum gas, desalination plant based on reverse osmosis, high-frequency ballast fluorescent tubes

Steinschalerhof und Steinschaler DörflRabenstein, ATTechnologies: Construction based on the low-energy-house strategy: very high levels of insulation, no thermal bridges, use of waste heat recovery, spot-on energy reduction in unoccupied rooms and spaces, efficient insulation against frost

Hotel Gran ReyValle Gran Rey, ESTechnologies: Water-saving fittings and devices, nature conservation in the gardens

Hotel Mürz Spa Wellness & Golf Bad Füssing, DETechnologies: Natural swimming pool, energy-saving processors for gas and oil-fired heating, water revitalisation

Hotel Derby Exclusive***Milano Marittima, ITTechnologies: Solar collector panels with heat recovery system, swimming pool water treatment system using controlled and optimal dispensing of prescribed chemicals, effectively reducing the quantity used compared with manual dispensing

Best Western Premier Hotel Victoria 4* star hotel

Freiburg, DETechnologies : Photovoltaics, solar collectors, wood pellet heating system

„Climate change“

Input energy: 33 kWh /overnight stay

Output CO2: 1kg/ overnight stay

„Environmental initiatives by European tourism businesses: Instruments, indicators and practical examples“

(ECOTRANS/ IER, 2006)

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