Located between the low hills that separate the Mediterranean Sea from the Mar Menor Sea, La Manga Club is an unrivalled sports and leisure complex just 20 minutes from Murcia Airport and an hour from Alicante.

La Manga Club Resort

Many holidaymakers are concerned about their carbon footprint when on their family holidays to Spain. Visitors to La Manga Club in Spain can rest assured that this five-star resort has introduced a range of environment policies to reduce its energy consumption and water usage. La Manga has been one of Europe’s premier sport and lifestyle resorts for nearly 40 years and is now leading the way with its environmentally friendly policies. By implementing an environmental management plan, La Manga Club has managed to minimise its carbon footprint whilst still maintaining the high standard of facilities it offers. All departments of La Manga Club are working closely together to make the resort as eco-friendly as possible.

La Manga Club has a good strong supply of solar power as the area enjoys more than 300 days of sun a year. Between 30 and 40 percent of the energy required for hot water and the heating of the pool at the resorts five-star Hotel Manga Club Principe Felipe is now obtained by solar power which is also a source of power for the golf clubhouse. There are plans to extend the use of solar power across the whole of the resort.

Simple measures, including the introduction of aerators on taps, flow control and timers, have enabled the resort to reduce water consumption

La Manga Club Spain

in the hotel and the fully serviced Lomas village self-catering accommodation by 60 per cent. Seventy per cent of the water used in maintaining La Manga Clubs three championship golf courses, eight international standard sports pitches and its numerous gardens is recycled water provided by wastewater treatment plant.

Covering an area of about 1400 acres, La Manga Club offers an amazing five-star hotel, Luxury holiday apartments and extensive sports facilities, including three championship golf courses, a twenty-eight court tennis centre and eight grass sports pitches. The resort is also home to many leisure facilities, including the La Manga Club Spa with 13 luxurious treatments rooms, comprehensive fitness centre and indoor swimming pool, more than twenty restaurants and bars, and meeting and banqueting facilities.

La Manga Club has hosted many major sporting events including the Davis and Fed Cup tennis matches, the Spanish Open golf championship and is a regular host to international football, rugby and cricket teams who come to the resort to use the first-class year-round training facilities.

La Manga Club Golf

The resort is a staunch supporter of women’s golf and is currently the official overseas resort partner of the English Women’s Golf Association and is in its second year of a three-year agreement to host the Ladies European Tour Qualifying School. La Manga Club is also the venue for the Ladies Murcia Open and regularly hosts top women’s amateur events and teams.

If you are looking for the perfect resort with excellent sporting and leisure facilities on your direct holidays to Spain then you need look no further than La Manga Club.

WTM 09 November 2009 : Spanish Tourist Office launches 10-year responsible tourism plan

The Spanish Tourist Office has unveiled a 10-year plan to promote responsible tourism in a bid to sustain Spain’s ‘pole position’ as a holiday destination.

Plan FuturE is part of the Tourism Plan Horizon 2020 and has been kickstarted with a €500 million investment.

It will work with hotels, operators and agents to create sustainable and environmentally friendly travel products, in particular for the short-break market.

Projects include improving energy efficiency, raising awareness of lesser-known destinations to balance visitor numbers throughout Spanish regions,  initiatives to reduce the effect of climate change and restoring 1,250 miles of rail track in its Green Rails Programme.

Spanish Tourist Office UK director Ignacio Vasallo said “Responsible travel can no longer be considered a niche market. It has to underpin all travel and constitutes an essential part of our tourism plans. This investment is designed to ensure we retain our pole position as a holiday destination.”

Spain minister of tourism Miguel Sebastian added  “After decades of success in attracting millions of visitors and expanding tourism beyond its beaches to all 17 of its regions, Spanish tourism officials have realised new policies and approaches are needed to adjust to current societal needs and to ensure that tourism continues to be a mainstay of the country’s economy.”

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What is World Responsible Tourism Day?

World Responsible Tourism Day (11th November 2009) was established by the World Travel Market as a means of highlighting the ways in which Western tourism can hurt the economic, environmental and social situations in the developing world.

When you go on holiday, do you ever consider the fact that you may be negatively impacting the people in the area you visit?  The sponsors of World Responsible Tourism Day think that you should consider this fact.

WTM World Responsible Tourism Day is a global day of action, encouraging to help drive change by educating more responsible behaviour with the travel and tourism industry and travelling public. For the third consecutive year, the event will be held at the World Travel Market at ExCeL London, which is the largest global travel and tourism industry event, and various locations across the world on Wednesday 11 November 2009.

WTM World Responsible Tourism Day is your chance to get involved and debate the issues.

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