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”
For more than 20 years, TUI, Germany’s leading tour operator, rewards hotels for their high environmental and social standard with the ‘TUI Umwelt Champion. For more than 20 years, Tigaiga has been awarded ! Hotels need to have a valid sustainability certification, which reflects the environmental and social performance and is recognized by the GlobalContinue Reading “TUI Environmental Champion 2016: Tigaiga awarded!”
The Tigaiga has just achieved a prestigious Travelife for Hotels & Accommodations Gold Certification 2016 -2018. Travelife – the international sustainability certification scheme – assesses a property’s performance in managing their social, environmental and economic impacts. The labelling scheme helps hotels cut costs and increase sales, by improved sustainability. To gain Travelife Gold certification the hotelContinue Reading “Tigaiga achieves Travelife Gold certification 2016”
We have just received good news from MIRLO: Hello, dear Hotel Tigaiga friends: Our trees are growing strong. Here is a video from November 2015 where the …, cedars and Canarian pines we planted together in 2013 can be seen. Some are also from those who participated in the 2014 campaign You will hear fromContinue Reading “News from MIRLO Positive Nature”
