The Final Conference was opened by Ms. Fadila Laanan on behalf of the Brussels regional government, taking place at Balsamine theatre in Schaerbeek – a unique storytelling experience looking back at the previous 3 years of the project. URBANWASTE welcomed the project’s 11 pilot cities and regions, other 16 project partners and invitees and guestContinue Reading “The URBAN WASTE final conference”
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”
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”
Case 14 Hotel Tigaiga: a deep rooted business culture by Jose Alerto Martínez, University of La Laguna https://books.google.es/books?id=7MI3DwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA223&ots=d5hhfnxk1p&dq=a%20deep%20rooted%20business%20culture%20hotel%20tigaiga&hl=es&pg=PA223#v=onepage&q=a%20deep%20rooted%20business%20culture%20hotel%20tigaiga&f=false
Dear Tigaiga guests! With your donations you financed the planting of local trees on the 10th of March in the Barranco del Infierno, Orotava Valley. In doing so, you contributed not only to preservation of the biological diversity and functions of this area, but also to active climate protection. Mixed natural forests are the largest terrestrialContinue Reading “Tree planting in the Orotava area”
At this conference you will hear from policy makers and politicians from different EU countries about national and regional policies in digital and technological transformation and industrial modernisation. You can learn from executives at leading industry providers on opportunities/benefits and business applications of Robotics, Nanomaterials, Big data, High performance computing, 3D scanning/metrology, and 3D printing;Continue Reading “The “WATIFY Launch event” Brussels 7th December”
ISES, AEDES and the University of the Balearic Islands are organizing the 2016 edition of EuroSun, the ISES European solar energy congress.(http://eurosun2016.org/) On Friday 14th October, 2016 Ana Palmero, FEUP (Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto) will present Poster D1-04 Energetic analysis of the implementation of renewable energies in a Canary Island hotel HOTELContinue Reading “International Conference on Solar Energy for Buildings and Industry”
