| Good Practice Innovation Sheet |
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| Items |
Description |
| 1. WHO |
| Key people and organisations (initiator, leader, partners) |
Plaza Alta Hotel |
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| Key Figures |
Surface |
Inhabitants |
Tourism arrivals |
Tourism nights |
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| 2. WHY |
| Reason for taking the good practice action |
Plaza Alta hotel demonstrates the combination of comfortable accommodation and strcit environmental protection measures. |
| Issues and challenge |
Reduction of energy waste; reduction of general waste, reduction of material waste. |
| 3. HOW |
| Methods /steps / tools used (to develop the good practice) |
Due to complete renovation, issues evaluation took place took place and main targets to achieve this eco-label took place. Hotel staff went through training to follow environmental friendly services. |
| 4. RESULT |
| Specific/measurable results, benefits |
Thermally insulated windows; building enclosure is thermally insulated; heaters are regulated; hotel is equipped with high-economy lights; waste is sorted and recycled, including fats and oils; no canned beverages, only returnable bottles; flow of water from all taps in rooms is limited to less than ten liters per minute; planting busches and flowers in the hotel surroundings |
| Recognitions (e.g. awards) |
EU-ECOLABEL |
| 5. REFLECTION |
| Lessons learned |
Green hotels are atractive for visitors |
| Challenges met |
Reaching up to the EU-ECOLABEL |
| Critical success factors |
Dicision to start environmental friendly buisness; enough money to begin with transoframtion; training of hotel staff. |
| 6. MORE |
| web-references, documents |
http://www.plazahotelalta.com/ |