- The Fraccionamiento Turistico Nautico continues to maintain the highest
sustainability standards.
For the second consecutive year Nuevo Vallarta
has received the Silver Level EarthCheck Certification that consolidates Bahia
de Banderas’ Riviera Nayarit as a sustainable tourism destination.
Earthcheck is a valuable management and
reporting tool that serves to improve both environmental and business
performance, as well as offering aid with energy conservation, water
management, reduced gas emissions, efficient use of natural resources and waste
reduction.
The benefits are also undeniable for travelers
who are aware and ever more conscious about the environment.
With this EarthCheck certification, the
Fraccionamiento Turistico Nautico keeps its status as a leader among a select
group of sustainable tourism operators that have been certified under this
international standard.
In that regard, Marc Murphy, Managing Director
of the Bahia de Banderas Hotel and Motel Association and the Riviera Nayarit
Convention and Visitors Bureau highlighted the teamwork the destination puts in
on a daily basis to maintain the certification and that it denoted the
implementation of an environmental management program with continuing
improvement and good environmental habits.
“The work isn’t easy, but fortunately it
doesn’t need to be done by just one person,” he emphasized. “The CVB is only
one of the managers, all the other entities have come together to do what
needed to be done, plus we can count on the unconditional support of the
Government of the state of Nayarit.”
Background
Converting Nuevo Vallarta into an EarthCheck
Community was the initiative of the Bahia de Banderas Hotel and Motel
Association together with the Riviera Nayarit Convention and Visitors Bureau
(CVB).
In order to do so a committee was formed with
representation from four sectors— Government, Private Initiative, Civil Society
and Academia—that in December 2014 formally enrolled the neighborhood into the
system, for which they took into consideration the density of hotel rooms and
the number of tourists.
The Facts:
EarthCheck, celebrating its 30th anniversary,
is an internationally recognized Environmental Management and Environmental
Certification System designed specifically for the Tourism Industry.
The current EarthCheck destinations are in
Mexico, New Zealand, Iceland and Australia.
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