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A Manual for Water and Waste Management: What the Tourism Industry Can Do to Improve Its Performance
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| Upload date | 07 Sep 2010 |
| Contributor | Vassilis Tsipidis |
| Country | Global, |
| Keywords | waste, water, Eco-Destinet, Sustainable tourism and ecotourism, |
| Topics | Climate Change - Energy and Resource Efficiency |
| Target groups | Businesses |
| Release date | 04/04/2009 |
This manual provides guidelines and examples of how tourism operations can achieve positive results in waste management and minimize harm to a community’s ecological and physical systems. The manual looks at the two major outputs of most facilities – solid waste management and water management.
There are four main water and wastewater management techniques that will be discussed in this manual namely water conservation, water reuse, engineered wastewater treatment systems and natural wastewater treatment systems.
It is understood that facilities must also consider other dimensions, e.g. power and the design and use of materials in construction, operation and maintenance in an overall environmental management strategy. The main focus of this manual is on small and medium tourism enterprises in developing countries and economies in transition, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and developing tourism destinations.
