Action Plan - Euro-Caribbean Island Cooperation on Sustainable Energies

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9. Tourism sector, energy-water binomial and 100% RES initiatives. There are three important emerging market niches where RET European Industry and the experience accumulated for its implementation in the different sectors can play an important role. RES and Sustainable Tourism Replication and transfer of experiences in the tourist sector in the line of the integration of RES in Sustainable Destinations. Experiences such as Green Hotels (MadeiraAREAM), Biosphere Hotels (Lanzarote) show the possibilities of cooperation and technological and process transfer following the idea of sustainable tourism development. Taking into account that in a next future the qualification of tourist destinations, and in particular island destinations, would necessarily take into account environmental responsibility and rational use of resources as basic requirements, an important field of cooperation with the European experience is opening, especially if we consider that an important share of the investments in tourism comes from the EU. Green Hotel Scheme (AREAM)

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