This Wednesday our hotel engaged our staff in sustainability efforts, helping to improve the local environment by taking part in the Beach Clean Up. The beach clean at Playa Jardín: involved 60 staff of over 15 hotels of Puerto de la Cruz collected 200 kg of solid waste, mailny cigarette stubs !! After it wasContinue Reading “Tigaiga involved in Beach Clean Up Playa Jardín”
We are delighted to inform you that, following our Travelife audit (May 2018) and the requested improvements made, our hotel Hotel Tigaiga has now achieved the Travelife Gold Certification. We take the opportunity to congratulate all our team members who have worked so hard to achieve this! MUCHAS GRACIAS
We are working on a pilot project at the Tigaiga: one of Spain’s first self-composting system The system consists of a machine for bio-waste of food origin installed at the hotel, with the capacity to treat 17 tonnes of bio-waste a year, which will produce 2 tonnes of good quality compost to be used inContinue Reading “On the path to sustainability”
Since 2011, the Certificate of Excellence honors hospitality businesses that deliver consistently great service across the world. This designation is presented to approximately 10% of total businesses on TripAdvisor that have consistently achieved great reviews over the past year. There is no application process for the Certificate of Excellence, and the achievement is earned overContinue Reading “Hotel Tigaiga & Tigaiga Suites – TripAdvisor Certificates of Excellence 2018”
Today we celebrate the regional holiday of the Canary Islands. The holiday is held in memory of the first session of the new regional parliament on May 30, 1983. Since then, the “Día de Canarias” is celebrated on all islands, and throughout the day numerous events take place, with tradition and folklore in the foreground.Continue Reading “May 30th – Dia de Canarias”
We need your permission to continue providing information! From next 25th May the new European Data Protection Regulation will come into force. In order to stay in contact, we need your consent to continue to inform you about Tigaiga news, offers and events. We have removed all subscriptions and if you wish to keep inContinue Reading “Actions required for GDPR”
Last Friday at the Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism the lecturer of the University of the Basque Country, Leire San José, gave a seminar on social monetization. She, together with Professor José Luis Retolaza, leads the methodology of monetization of social value that Beatriz Guzmán Pérez and Javier Mendoza Jimenez (from the University ofContinue Reading “Social Accounting for Sustainability”
Today we installed a new composting machine for the treatment of the organic waste from our kitchen and restaurant: we want to reduce waste, and the emission of greenhouse gases and produce a quality compost for our gardens. Our team will now deposit organic waste daily in the “Big Hanna” composter. We hope that inContinue Reading “Implementing innovative waste management measures”
The Easter Bunny will come today and leave surprises along his way! Colourful flowers are all around in the Tigaiga garden they can be found! Our best wishes from here to there Happy Easter everywhere!
Again, we are starting to collaborate in a new EU pilot project iniciative. This time it will be: “Urban Waste”. The project will develop eco-innovative and gender-sensitive waste prevention and management strategies in cities with high levels of tourism in order to reduce the urban waste production and improve municipal waste management. In our specific case the firstContinue Reading “New EU pilot project: Urban waste”
