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As part of the Responsible Cape Town pilot project, a workshop on World Tourism Day 2012 saw several leading Responsible Tourism businesses sharing their practices and recent actions on the theme of Sustainable Energy.

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Welcome to

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Seven wonders of Nature

2004 the Cape floristic region declared a Natural World Heritage Site Table Mountain National Park one of the regions

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Our Journey

• 2011 – Runners up in the SKAL (Sustainable development in Tourism) awards.

• 2011 – TMACC awarded Overall Winners for responsible tourism at the annual Imvelo awards ceremony

• 2011 – Joined the CCC RT pilot

• 2010 - Platinum certification by the Heritage Environmental Management Company

• 2008 - Imvelo Award: Best Single Resource Management, Water

• 2007 – Joined Heritage Environmental program – RT first introduced

• 2003 - Environmental Management System was awarded ISO14001 certification by the South African Bureau of

Standards.

• 1997 - First Environmental Management System for the operational phase of the cableway was drawn up with

the help of consultants.

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0.7Liters per flush

1 000 000 litres saving in one year

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Every drop that goes down a drain comes down via cable car at night

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Waste to landfill is down from 203 ton to 77 ton in the past year

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Waste to landfill July 2009 - June 2012

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- Yvettie Munava – manufactures jewellery from recycled cardboard from the

cableway.

- Rootz Creationz – design and produce handcrafted gifts

which supports a number of impoverished families.

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Average of 20 000 school children per year

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150 permanent staff members employed at TMACC

100 contact staff employed in all areas each year for a six month period

This year 10 learnerships - retail

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