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.