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.

Hotel Jardín Tecina logra la certificación Oro de Travelife

El Hotel Jardín Tecina en la bella isla de La Gomera, Islas Canarias, logra la categoría Oro de la certificación Travelife para hoteles y alojamientos. Travelife - el sistema de certificación internacional de sostenibilidad - evalúa el desempeño de una propiedad en la gestión de sus impactos sociales, ambientales y económicos.

El programa de certificación ayuda a los hoteles a reducir los costes y aumentar las ventas, por la mejora de la sostenibilidad.

Para obtener la certificación Travelife Oro el hotel debe cumplir con sus 150 criterios de sostenibilidad. Esto incluye cuestiones ambientales, como reducir el consumo de  energía, agua y productos químicos, así como la adopción de medidas positivas en temas sociales, como el bienestar de los empleados, que trabajan con la comunidad local, la protección del niño y los derechos humanos. También deben demostrar cómo están ayudando a apoyar a las empresas locales y proteger las tradiciones y la fauna local.

El Hotel Jardín Tecina, ubicado dentro de las Canarias y en la pintoresca isla de La Gomera, sobre un acantilado, es un complejo hotelero de lujo con vistas al océano Atlántico y al Teide en la vecina Tenerife. Se encuentra rodeado por más de 70.000 metros cuadrados de jardines y está a sólo un tiro de piedra de la majestuosa Tecina Golf.

Sus jardines lo forman más de 50 especies diferentes de plantas de todo el mundo y el hotel en sí se mezcla sin esfuerzo en el entorno con su arquitectura de estilo canario. Rodeado por senderos y jardines que garantizan la máxima privacidad y sus habitaciones equipadas con todas las comodidades que se esperan de un hotel de esta categoría.

Travelife es un sistema de certificación internacional, la promoción de la sostenibilidad en el sector turístico. Ayuda a los operadores turísticos, hoteles y alojamientos a gestionar y controlar sus impactos sociales y ambientales, así como de comunicar sus logros a los clientes. Es un sistema fácil de implementar que ofrece a sus miembros un marco práctico para mejorar su negocio.

Travelife de Hoteles y Alojamiento es el único sistema de certificación que trabaja en colaboración con los operadores turísticos, tanto en el Reino Unido como a nivel internacional, que utilizan el sistema para aumentar la sostenibilidad en la industria y comunicar los logros a los clientes.

ABTA’s Travel Trends Report 2015 reveals La Gomera Island as ‘destinations to watch’.

ABTA has  released its Travel Trends 2015 Report, developed in association with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.  The report reveals that consumer confidence is slowly returning to the holiday market with more consumers planning to spend more on their holidays in 2015 than those looking to cut back (20% state they will spend more on holidays and only 15% say they are planning to spend less*). This growth is being led by more affluent holidaymakers with value for money and a desire to maximise holiday experiences dominating the rest of the market.

Destinations to watch

ABTA has also identified its ‘Destinations to watch’ for 2015, a mixture of long and short haul destinations that are expected to capture the public’s imagination in 2015. The destinations are (in alphabetical order):

1.      Austria

2.      Botswana

3.      Cuba

4.      Dominican Republic

5.      Japan

6.      Latvia

7.      La Gomera, (Spain)

8.      Norway

9.      Pacific Coast (USA)

10.  Singapore

11.  The Netherlands

12.  The Peloponnese (Greece)

Mark Tanzer, ABTA Chief Executive said: “We do expect to see the slow but steady signs of recovery that have been characteristic of 2014 continue into next year. We are seeing strong growth from the most affluent end of the market and we expect this to drive interest in luxury and tailor made packages. The rest of the market remains resilient with value for money continuing to be a priority. Holidaymakers want their holiday to work hard for them, whether that’s by offering new experiences, combining different destinations or simply delivering great value.”

El Hotel Jardín Tecina consigue el Holiday Check Award 2015.

El comienzo del año 2015, continua trayendo reconocimientos internacionales al Hotel Jardín Tecina.

Los usuarios del portal de viajeros Holiday Check, han elegido nuevamente al Hotel Jardín Tecina, como una de los hoteles más populares del mundo.

El Hotel Jardín Tecina, localizado en la isla de La Gomera, vuelve a renovar de esta forma, este prestigioso galardón, que ya ha conseguido en años anteriores. 

La gran relevancia de este premio consiste en que, son los propios clientes alojados en los hoteles, los que emiten sus opiniones sobre el  hotel y sus servicios.

Los  premios se otorgan a los  hoteles que superan un 90 por ciento de recomendación por parte de los clientes que se han alojado  en ellos.  Y que además,  reciben una puntuación  de sus servicios de más de cinco sobre seis. Para los premios de este año, se han tenido en cuenta más de 980.000 opiniones de usuarios de todo el mundo.

Los huéspedes del Hotel Jardín Tecina y usuarios de Holiday Check, han reconocido el gran compromiso de los trabajadores del establecimiento, en ofrecer un excelente servicio de calidad y en la voluntad de cumplir  sus expectativas, lo que se traduce  en excelentes críticas realizadas por estos.

¿ Todavía tienes dudas de donde reservar tus vacaciones?. No lo dudes más. Confía en las opiniones de los usuarios de Holiday Check y ven al Hotel Jardín Tecina.

La ABTA, elige a la Gomera como uno de los destinos a descubrir en el 2015

La mayor asociación de agencias de viaje británicas, ABTA, ha incluido a la isla de La Gomera, como uno de los principales destinos de viaje por descubrir en este recién estrenado año 2015.

La ABTA, cuenta con unos 1.200 afiliados y con una fuerza de venta de nada menos que unas 5.000 oficinas y tiendas de viajes.

En su informe anual sobre expectativas de gasto y tendencias de viaje, sugieren a sus clientes descubrir una serie de destinos que atraparán la imaginación del público durante el 2015.

Entre los destinos seleccionados, se encuentra la isla de La Gomera. La ABTA, destaca entre los principales valores de la isla, sus suaves temperaturas a lo largo de todo el año. Sus espectaculares atracciones naturales, como el Parque Nacional de Garajonay, declarado patrimonio de la humanidad por la Unesco. La calidad y cantidad de senderos para la práctica  del senderismo. La claridad y riqueza de las aguas, para la práctica del submarinismo. La tranquilidad de la isla ideal para aquellos que desean huir de los destinos masificados. Y destaca la localidad de Playa de Santiago, donde se localiza el principal complejo turístico de La Gomera, el Hotel Jardín Tecina y el Tecina Golf.

La lista completa de destinos a descubrir durante este 2015 es la siguiente:

1.       Austria

2.       Botswana

3.       Cuba

4.       República Dominicana

5.       Japón

6.       Letonia

7.       La Gomera

8.       Noruega

9.       La Costa del Pacífico ( Estados Unidos)

10. Singapore

11.   Holanda

12. El Peloponeso (Grecia)

     

   

El informe de tendencias de 2015, de la ABTA, revela la lenta recuperación de la confianza de los consumidores. Estos prevén aumentar durante este año 2015, un 20% más de gasto en vacaciones.  Según el estudio,  este aumento del gasto en vacaciones supondrá una mayor exigencia en las expectativas de satisfacción. De ahí, la necesidad de descubrir nuevos destinos  turísticos que apuntan un 35% de los turistas británicos. Junto con la necesidad de aumentar el contacto con las formas de vida locales.Tras el análisis de este informe de la ABTA, se abren grandes posibilidades para el sector turístico de la isla de La Gomera durante este 2015.

     

     Y tú, ¿crees que la Gomera es un destino por descubrir? ¿A qué lugar de la Gomera llevarías a un turista?