Objectives ISD Forum

Renewable Energies

 Water management

Zero waste

Buildings

Island experiences

Tourism

 Biodiversity

Transport

Information Society
 


Sustainable Hotels for Sustainable Destinations
The tourism of the future


International Conference, Maspalomas - 2001
 

General Conclusions

Cipriano Marin

 

Biosphere Hotels and the Responsible Tourism System

Manuel Concepción Pérez

President - Biosphere Hotels International Network (Spain)

 

The International Hotels Environment Initiative and the Current Market Climate

Karen Fletcher

Director - The International Hotels Environment Initiative

 

Education. A key factor in tourist sustainability and competitivity

Javier Gallego

General Administrator of the World Tourism Organization - Themis Foundation

 

The Hawaii experience: Tourism, Environment and Information Technologies

Pauline J. Sheldon

School of Travel Industry Management-University of Hawaii - USA

 

The Responsible Tourism System

José Marrero y Castro

Institute of Responsible Tourism

 

Technological Innovation for Responsible Tourism Based on the Principles of Sustainable Development

José Luis Penacho Ródenas

Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology

 

Matrix for Evaluating Tourism Projects on The Basis of Sustainable Tourism Indicators

Hervé Barioulet

Groupe Developpement (France)

 

Conference on Energy and Environment in the Mediterranean Hotel Sector

Roberto Pagani

SOFTECH (Italy)

 

Market and new technological challenges. The role certification in helping build sustainable tourism

Kirk Brown

Center for Resource Solutions (San Francisco – USA)

 

Estrategia Hotelera para un Tursimo Responsable

Rafael Lasso Cabrera

Presidente Asociación Insular de Empresarios de Hoteles y Apartamentos de Lanzarote – ASOLAN (Spain)

 

Integrated quality and environmental management: a case study

Dagmar Diwok

ACTA, Associazione Cultura Turismo Ambiente (Italy)

 

Experiences in Ecotourism & Sustainable Development

Alex E. Khajavi

Naturegate Inc. (USA)

 

Recovering traditional architecture as a tourist resource: The Taramundi experience

José Luis García Grinda

Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain)

 

Edificación Bioclimática y Turismo. Posibilidades y Realizaciones.

Guillermo Galván

ITER, ALTENER Island 2010 Initiative (Spain)

 

Architecture and tourism: Think "glocal"

Paola Deda

United Nations - SIDS Unit

 

Herramientas para construir hoteles más sostenibles

Xavier Casanovas

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya  (Spain)

 

Networking Sustainable Tourism Private Sector Participation in Destination Management

Gordon Sillence

Instituto Português de Ecologia (Portugal)

 

WelcomEnviron - ITC Welcomgroup Initiatives Towards Zero Waste Operation

Dr. S. Govindarajan

ITC Welcomgroup (India)

 

New Composting Technology for Organic Recovery in Sustainable Destinations

Carl Beck

Wilson Brown Associates Ltd (New Zealand)

 

Water and Energy Consumption of the Tourist Sector in the Canary Islands

Manuel Hernández-Suárez

Canary Islands Water Center (Spain)

 

Sustainable desalination, distribution, sewage and re-use in the Cape Verde archipelago

Joan Fages

EREF (European Renewable Energies Federation) - HIDROWATT, S.A. (Spain)

 

Sistemas de Desalación Basados  en Energías Renovables y su Aplicación al Sector Turistico

Alejandro Menéndez Sosa

Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias - (CIEA-ITC) (Spain)

 

Los recursos hídricos, un factor clave en la planificación del turismo

José Alberto Tejada Guibert

División de Ciencias del Agua, UNESCO

 

Energy Management in Hotels and Implanting Environmental Labels

Assumpta Ferrán

ICAEN (Spain)

 

Rational Use of Energy - Transferring Experience

Tony Wilson

AEA Technology Plc (United Kingdom)

 

Reconversion of Traditional Water Pumping Wind Turbines from Mallorca for Electricity Generation

José  Pascual Tortella

NUEVA GEDISA S.L. - Grupo ENDESA (Mallorca – Spain)

 

La Electricidad Solar y la Hostelería

Pedro Javier Cezar

ATERSA (Spain)

 

Renewable energies in small island biosphere reserves. Initiatives for the sustainable development of tourism

Carles Torra Vinyals - Susanna Izquierdo Fernández

Institut Català d'Energia (Spain)

 

Possibilities of alternative transport (Hybrid, electric or gas) for improving city centres

and tourist destinations

Miguel Fraile

Iveco Pegaso (Spain)

 

Alternative Transport in Tourist Areas for Cleaner Cities

Giancarlo Crepaldi

ATESINA (Italy)

 

Renewable Energy for Clean Sustainable Transport in the Tourism Sector

Pat Bell, Jim O'Malley & Wilhelm Bodewigs

ENTRAC - Energy Transport Actions - Sligo Town Centre Partnership (Ireland)

 

Taking advantage of energy-efficient transport technologies- experience from European research and demonstration programmes

David Blackledge

Transport & Travel Research ltd (United Kingdom)

 

New models for integrated management of cultural heritage and tourism

Emmanuella Doussis

University of Athens. Dep. of Political Science and Public Administration (Greece)

 

Los Centros Turísticos de Información Autosuficientes

Julieta C. Schallenberg Rodríguez

Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias. (CIEA-ITC)  (SPAIN)

 

PVs in the Tourist Sector: Experiences and Potential in Greece and World-wide

Alexander Zachariou

Centre for Renewable Energy Sources (CRES) – (Greece)

 

Baltic Agenda 21 and the regional cooperation

Reet Kokovkin

Hiiumaa County government (Estonia)

 

Health and Tourism. The Telematics Services

Anamarija Margan

Internal Medicine Consult. Office – Fac. of Electrical Engin. and Computing (Croatia)

 

Optimización del Diseño Solar Pasivo de Hoteles

Manuel Martín Monroy

Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)

 

Iniciativa para la Introducción de las Energías Renovables y la Eficiencia Energética en el Sector Turístico de la Costa Brava

Soledad Pérez

ECOSERVEIS (Barcelona – Spain)

 

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies for Development of Sustainable Habitats

Mili Majumdar

Tata Energy Research Institute (India)

 

Development of Sustainable Systems Vectors: Water-Energy-Environmental

Gomez A., de la Nuez I., García J., Argudo C.

Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)

 

Diversity and information as foundations for sustainable tourism outcome of the port-cros symposium

Francesco di Castri and Venkataraman Balaji

CEFE-CNRS (France)

 

Implementation of RES & RUE: the ADEME’s Strategy in partnerships with the hotel chains

ADEME : French Agency for Environment and Energy management