We have just received our award plaque from Travelife GOLD for Sustainability in Tourism PS Achieving a Travelife Award isn’t easy and requires a good result from the Travelife Audit. Audits involve a visit from an independent auditor, who will look at the range of a hotel’s management practices from the way it employs itsContinue Reading “Travelife GOLD 2012”
During the audit, our hotel Tigaiga has been able to show that we meet the Bronze, Silver and Gold mandatory criteria of the Travelife Sustainability System, displaying a high level of commitment to sustainability. We have also shown we encourage others to get involved, constantly seeking out new opportunities for improvement, actively communicating their progressContinue Reading “Tigaiga receives Travelife GOLD award”
The hotel Tigaiga with a proactive approach to environmental challenges looks for ways to continually improve our environmental performance . EMAS is our premium environmental management tool to achieve this. It leads to enhanced performance, credibility and transparency of more than 4,500 registered organisations worldwide.
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This summer we have been working to improve our wastewater treatment system and have installed new heavy-duty pumps GRUNDFOS SEV which are designed for handling wastewater in industrial applications.
Today, on the World Tourism Day, the Hotel Tigaiga held an Open Day during which students from the British School of Tenerife were invited to see the living environment of the hospitality industry. The purpose of this day is to raise awareness on the role of tourism within the international community and to demonstrate howContinue Reading “Open day at the Tigaiga”
The ‘Island of Eternal Spring’ more than lives up to its title with sun warming the landscape year round, from the capital Santa Cruz to the mountainous Teide National Park and the lush Orotava Valley in the north. http://www.greentraveller.co.uk/sustainable-tourism-tenerife Places to stay: HOTEL TIGAIGA has been awarded numerous environmental awards since it opened in 1959.
A global competition was organized by ITU (International Telecommunication Union) and supported by Telefónica and Research In Motion to identify innovative applications that can help improve energy efficiency and combat climate change. A special mention was made by the jury to the application “Effi-e Play Green”, presented by Turisfera (Spain), pilot proyect in which the Hotel TigaigaContinue Reading “A special mention to “Effi-e Play Green””
The hotel Tigaiga, like all EMAS organizations, publishes yearly an environmental statement for the interested public. In it, the company is described with its activities, its products and services.
This new softener equipment works by exchanging ions from the urban network water. The water will also be pre-filtered to improve quality and to protect the entire hotel Tigaiga installation. This facility is also intended to protect the environment: thanks to the new softener we plan to reduce the consumption of detergent (kitchen) and the need of fabric softener (laundry).Continue Reading “New water treatment equipment”