| 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/  |