SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Hotel and Non-Hotel Association of Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro (Ashotel) has prepared a set of practical guides to promote tourism sustainability. The first of these technical documents, already published, is the ‘Guide to minimize the Carbon Footprint in the tourism sector’.
Specifically, it is a report that aims to help associated establishments on their way to decarbonizing the tourism sector and embedded in the 2030 Sustainability and Digitization Strategy of the hotel employers.
Precisely, the recently approved Canary Islands Law on Climate Change and Energy Transition, which among other issues will create the Carbon Footprint Registry, will allow the quantification of greenhouse gas emissions in the Archipelago and whose registration will be mandatory for accommodation establishments, among others tourist farms and companies.
In this way, Ashotel advances with this first Guide to introduce the concepts and tools necessary for the calculation, reduction and compensation of the footprint, serving as guidance for all those hotels, apartments, houses and rural hotels and other types of accommodation legal on its path to decarbonization.
In addition, with the recent adherence of the hotel association to the Glasgow Declaration, it is committed and collaborates with the exchange of good practices and solutions, disseminating information to encourage new organizations to become signatories and it does accompanying work to hotels to achieve the Glasgow targets as soon as possible. The Guide is also aligned with the 2022-2030 Climate Action Master Plan, ‘The journey to decarbonisation of the Canary Islands destination’ of the Government of the Canary Islands.
The tourism sector is highly vulnerable to climate change, so Ashotel understands that it must join efforts and commitments in the fight against this phenomenon, reducing its emissions and being more sustainable when developing its activity. And with this work, the association acts proactively so that tourism continues to grow towards excellence and the conservation of ecosystems which, after all, is the value proposition of all destinations and clients.
In accordance with the lines of action of its Sustainability Strategy, Ashotel has planned, after the first one, to prepare the following monographic guides: Guide to implement the Circular Economy in tourist establishments; Guide for saving and energy efficiency in tourist companies; Guide for the incorporation of local products to the gastronomic offer of hotel establishments; Guide for sustainable mobility and development of transport plans to work in the tourist company; Guide for the conservation of biodiversity and protection of heritage from the tourist activity.
