Source::BreakingTravelNews
With the new year of 2022 dawning upon us, The Balearic Islands, a group of islands in the Mediterranean has sought the path of sustainability through its new tourism plan with over 60 million dollars in investment and a new legal framework.
The legal framework will help the islands to enforce many measures which will help the islands to have a more inclusive and sustainable form of economic growth for the workers and the travellers coming to the country. It will lead to more efficient use of resources and boosts public-private collaboration.
The law is based on the concept of circularity with an entirely new scale that is being used to classify hotels based on sustainability measures, such as renewable energies or consumption optimization systems.
Under the laws, rainwater usage will be encouraged while the establishment will need to change oil boilers for natural gas or electric ones, which will cause an omission of 57,600 kg of CO2 per establishment per year. They must control temperatures and have water-saving devices in hotels.
Under the plan, from the year 2023, hotels must install elevating beds to facilitate their workers, which will mean renewing 300,000 beds, from which over 20,000 workers will benefit from.
The Balearic Islands have a long-term commitment to sustainability and their objective is to create a positive balance between the economic activity created by tourism and the need to protect the environment, emphasising their greatest asset, the islands’ natural heritage.
