Hotel Jardín Tecina recibe Holiday Check Award 2015

El Hotel Jardín Tecina ha sido galardonado con el “Holiday Check Award 2015”. Este premio reconoce al hotel como uno de los más populares en la zona, siendo el único hotel de La Gomera que lo ha recibido.

La entrega del galardón se realizó en las instalaciones del hotel contando con la presencia de la Coordinadora de Marketing y Ventas del Hotel Jardín Tecina, Dª. Natalia Mesa y D. Bruno Bedda, Area Management Holiday Check de Canarias.

Los establecimientos hoteleros que reciben este premio son elegidos directamente por los clientes de los mismos, que plasman sus opiniones en la web www.holidaycheck.com, por ello, el significado tan especial que tiene este galardón para el Hotel Jardín Tecina.

El Hotel Jardín Tecina recibe el Sello Verde Clase A - Energía Verde

El Hotel Jardín Tecina, situado en Playa de Santiago en La Gomera ha recibido el prestigioso Sello Verde Clase A premiando su compromiso y respeto con el Medio Ambiente al contratar la energía “verde” procedente de fuentes de energía renovable cumpliendo así con su compromiso de sostenibilidad.

La principal consecuencia de dicho compromiso se traduce en reducir la huella de carbono así como tomar conciencia de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero y cumplir con los protocolos y normativas medioambientales exigidas por Certificaciones como la ISO 14001 o la Certificación EMAS con las que el Hotel Jardín Tecina ya cuenta.

La entrega del mismo tuvo lugar en las instalaciones del hotel  contando con la presencia de la Directora de Marketing y Ventas del Área de La Gomera, Dª. Camilla von Guggenberg y Desirée Díaz de Ecoenergética.

TOP HOTEL PARTNER AUSZEICHNUNG 2014

Hotel Jardín Tecina hat Top Hotel Partner Auszeichnung 2014  überreichen zu durfen.

Mit dieser Urkunde möchte Schauinsland Reisen für die vertrauensvolle und freundschaftliche Zusammenarbeit mit Hotel Jardín Tecina recht herlich bedanken.

Flexibilität, Fairnes und die sie entgegengebrachte langjährige Treue sind für Schauinsland Reisen die wichtigsten Kriterien bei der Vergabe der Top Hotel Partner Auszeichnung. Darüber hinaus sind Schauinsland Reisen  als Familenunternehmen ein vertrauensvolles Miteinander mit unseren Geschäftspartnern sowie die Resonaz gemeinsamen Gäste von besonderer Bedeutung.

FORTY YEARS CATCHING SMUGGLERS

Hotel Jardín Tecina offered to all their guests Talk Titles about Smugglers by
Mr. Malcolm G. Nelson.

Malcolm Nelson worked for 40 years for HM Customs and Excise. He worked on every aspect of catching

smugglers. 

The Presentations will be based on the theme “Forty Years Catching Smugglers”

Their titles will be:

1.            “An insight into how Customs Officers select people they think might be carrying drugs” – what are the tell-tale signs? How do guilty ones give themselves away?

Talk date: Tuesday 24th of March

2.            “Drug Concealments” Some real life stories, with accompanying pictures

Talk date: Thursday, 26th of March

3.            “Swallowers” – a detailed look at how people who swallow drugs as a means of concealment are detected and processed. This talk includes pictures and x-rays

Talk date:  28th of March 

BIOGRAPHY      

               

Malcolm Nelson worked for 40 years for HM Customs and Excise. He worked on every aspect of catching

smugglers. He was mainly based at Heathrow but he also spent time at London Port, Dover, St Petersburg

(Russia), Malta, and at most major airports throughout the EU.

Since retirement in 2005 he has developed his speaking activity and now delivers in excess of 60 talks a year

to clubs and societies throughout the south of England.

His main program of talks is entitled "40 years of catching smugglers". In this series of talks he uses his

experience to give his audience an insight into just how Customs Officers catch smugglers. However he also

 gives talks on the history of smuggling, historical events in Australia and the Russian revolution. His talks are

are invariably informative and his unique style of delivery make them both entertaining and, where appropriate,

extremely amusing.

He is an accomplished speaker having been trained in Advanced Presentational Skills.

He is a member of the British Society of Criminologists and he is accredited by the Australian Tourist Board

as an "Aussie Specialist".

His first book "Forty Years Catching Smugglers" was published in 2011 and his second

"The Heathrow Drug Wars" will be published in the summer 2013.

GARDENS TALK TITLES. HOTEL JARDIN TECINA

Hotel Jardin Tecina oferred to all their guests Talk Titles about gardens by Mrs. Joanne Kidd.

Joanne is a nationally and internationally acknowledged expert in the history and development of gardens and garden design, from Ancient Egypt to the modern day. Her body of lectures reflects the depth and diversity of her knowledge, encompassing not only specific gardens and garden designers, but also the defining styles across eras and continents – and the cross-influences that have spread across the world as Empires rose and fell. They also reflect her passion for the art, social and general history of these fascinating civilisations and their times.

She is an accredited lecturer for the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts (NADFAS) UK and has lectured for its associated societies in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. She has lectured at the National Gallery, on Cruise Ships, and with several National Lecturing Agencies in the UK and Europe; also to the National Trust and County Garden Trusts.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Gardens of Ancient Egypt

Gardens of Ancient Rome

Gardens of India

Persian Gardens, including the Islamic influence on garden material used in art

Moorish Gardens, including those in Granada and across Spain

Renaissance Gardens of Italy, including the influence of the Medici family and their patronage across all arts

Chinese and Japanese Gardens and their influence in Europe

The Development of North American Gardens and Parks, and the influence of American plants brought back by early botanists into European gardens

Spanish influence in Mexico and South America

POLICE & CRIME. TALK TITLES

Hotel Jardín Tecina offered to all their guests talk titles about police & crime by Mr. Ian MacDonald .

Ian MacDonald is a retired Assistant Chief Constable. He joined the Liverpool and Bootle Constabulary in 1971 and was a police officer for 31 years.

TALK TITLES

Three talk titles  the next  26 , 28 and 30 of january at 20:30 in Bar Salón, Hotel Jardín Tecina La Gomera.              

1. The McCrae Chronicles.

Tales of the eccentric Inspector Arthur 'Kipper Fillets' McCrae and his enduring feud with his unruly sergeants and constables in the Liverpool City of the 1970s.

2. Chief Constables I have known.

Ian's highly personalised account of what it was like to work for some of the most demanding Chief Constables on the last and current centuries, how some of them fell from grace, and how others have remained in place..

3. The Toxteth Riots.

How they came about, and what happened during and after them.

Ian MacDonald currently works as an Intelligence Lead for Immigration and Enforcement in the Home Office.the Border Agency. During his time in the Police he experienced the Toxteth Riots, the Miners’ Farmers’ and Dockers’ disputes and terrorist threats to the Liverpool Docks and the Grand National. He was a commander for operations against Liverpool’s notorious organised crime teams and for football at Liverpool and Everton and Rugby League at St Helens . In the late 1980s and early 1990s he was seconded as an advisor to the Jamaican Government, and he monitored the South African Police in Kwa Zulu during the election of Nelson Mandela. He has also worked for the Foreign Office on combating corruption in Uruguay and developing community policing in Venezuela. Ian has undertaken comparative policing studies in the Caribbean, USA, Europe, South Africa and Latin America.

As head of professional development for the Police Staff College he prepared many the current generation of Chief Constables in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth for their roles. Since retiring from the Police he has worked as a crime reduction and IT consultant, a tutor for the Open University, a board member for the Merseyside Probation Trust and as the Chair of Crimestoppers for Merseyside.

He has appeared on TV and spoken on radio on a range of policing issues and appeared in the BBC 4 program 'Scousers Telling Jokes.’ Ian is a prolific author, and Chief Constable Tim Hollis of the Northumbria Police recently recommended his articles in ‘Police Professional’ to his colleagues for the quality of their ‘history, observation and humour.’

Hotel Jardín Tecina Achieves Prestigious Travelife Gold Award

The Hotel Jardín Tecina in the beautiful island of La Gomera, Canary Islands, has just achieved a prestigious Travelife for Hotels & Accommodations Gold award. 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 hotel must meet their 150 sustainability criteria. This includes environmental issues, such as minimising their waste and use of energy, water and chemicals; , as well as taking positive action on social issues, such as employee welfare, working with the local community, child protection and human rights. They must also show how they are helping to support local businesses and protect local traditions and wildlife.

The Hotel Jardín Tecina, located within the Canaries and on the picturesque island of La Gomera, is a distinctive cliff-top luxury hotel complex overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and Mount Teide in neighbouring Tenerife. It stands surrounded by over 70,000 square metres of verdant gardens and is only a stone throw away from the majestic Tecina Golf Course.

The gardens contain over 50 different species of plants from all over the globe and the hotel itself blends effortlessly into the setting with its Canarian style architecture. Each bungalow is bordered by paths and gardens which ensure maximum privacy and the comfortables rooms feature all the facilities one would expect from a hotel of this class.

Travelife is an international certification system, promoting sustainability within the tourism industry. It helps tour operators, hotels and accommodations to manage and monitor their social and environmental impacts, as well as communicate their achievements to customers. It is an easy to use sustainability system which provides members with a practical framework to improve their business.

Travelife for Hotels and Accommodations is the only certification scheme that works in partnership with tour operators, both in the UK and internationally, who use the system to increase sustainability in the industry and communicate achievements to customers.