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Sven Eckardt, Herbert Hamele

Universität Stuttgart

Institut für Energiewirtschaft und Rationelle Energieanwendung IER

November 2006

Sutour, Tourbench & more: new European tools to manage,

monitor and benchmark environmental sustainability

in tourism services

Sven Eckardt

Rhodes, 10th November 2006




November 2006

The challenge for tourism services: less consumption – more competitiveness

� More than 95 % of more than 500.000 hotels and camping places, youth hostels and holiday

houses in Europe are small and medium sized enterprises. Many of them are run by families.

� They offer and create many jobs, feel responsible for more sustainable development in their regions, are part of and guarantee an immense variety of authentic tourism from Finland to Portugal, from Ireland to Greece.

� Tourists expect the environmental quality during their holidays to be high; outside as well as inside the accommodation.

� Because of the high level of services (and cleaning) offered in accommodations, tourists consume more water, energy, chemical substances and produce more waste than at home.

� Better management, high-quality information and technical measures can reduce the environmental impact considerably.

� Many of these measures help to save cost, improve competitiveness, support the regional economy and improve sustainable development - and meet the expectations of the consumers.




November 2006

Use the Travelife

Sustainability Store to

manage all your

sustainability needs and to

promote your good

practice to Tour Operators

globally.

www.its4travel.com

Use SUTOUR to manage

your environmental

measures & prepare for

EMAS certification. http://sutour.ier.uni-

stuttgart.de

Use TourBench to monitor

your environmental

consumption and cost,

calculate your

Return on Investment and

benchmark with other

businesses.

www.tourbench.info

Use Train to Eco-label to

learn how to realize the

criteria for the EU Flower

and for national

certificates.

www.traintoecolabel.org

On the Destinet portal you will find more Sustainable Tourism information, e.g. good practice examples and eco-certificates

http://destinet.ewindows.eu.org




November 2006

Monitoring and benchmarking of environmental

consumption and cost in tourist accommodation services




November 2006




November 2006

First results :Water consumption

Water consumption/night in m³TourBench 2006, n = 375

0,312

0,273

0,226

0,148

0,115

0,231

0

0,05

0,1

0,15

0,2

0,25

0,3

0,35

Hotel

Holiday house

Bed and

breakfast

Camping site

Group

accommodation

Gesamt

Water consumption with(out) pool

TourBench 2006, n = 323

0,358

0,298

0,194

0,136

0,000

0,050

0,100

0,150

0,200

0,250

0,300

0,350

0,400

Hote l:

pool

Hote l: no

pool

Camping:

pool

Camping:

no pool

m³/overnight




November 2006

SUTOUR(EELM)

Supporting Tourism Enterprises for Eco-

Labelling and Environmental Management




November 2006

Targets

Create a Software in five languages

(english, french, german, greek and italian)

´Explanation and international workshops for dissemination

in 5 countries (e.g. Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Greece)

Validation of at least five hotels according to EMAS

Website in four languages and at least 1000 downloads

Reduction of waste accumulation, energy and water consumption

by at least 10 % (average) for the user of the software




November 2006

Software E-KUH




November 2006




November 2006

Meeting with environmental minister Tanja Gönner

11. October 2006,Titisee, Germany




November 2006




November 2006

Champion “Umweltpreis des Landes Baden-Württemberg”




November 2006

11,1

27,6

9,1

47,8

9,4

27,5

3,7

40,6

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

Verbrauch pro Übernachtung [kWh/Ü]

2004 2005

Jahr

Strom Holzhackschnitzel Erdgas Gesamtenergie

Energy consumption Seehotel




November 2006

Water consumption Seehotel (****hotel with pool)

332

292

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

Verbrauch pro Übernachtung [l/Ü]

2004 2005

Jahr

Water consumption with(out) pool

TourBench 2006, n = 323

0,358

0,298

0,194

0,136

0,000

0,050

0,100

0,150

0,200

0,250

0,300

0,350

0,400

Hote l:

pool

Hote l: no

pool

Camping:

pool

Camping:

no pool

m³/overnight




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9

41

18

63

17

48

17

86

10

33

11

30

26

64

10

37

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

Verbrauch pro Übernachtung [kWh/Ü]

Seehotel Wiesler Alte Post zum Kreuz Bischofschloss Die Halde s'Breitachhus Walser Stuba Rosenhof

Kennzahlenvergleich 2005

Strom Gesamtenergie




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292

363 367

266

374

211

288

183

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

Verbrauch pro Übernachtung [l/Ü]

Seehotel Wiesler Alte Post zum Kreuz Bischofschloss Die Halde s'Breitachhus Walser Stuba Rosenhof

Kennzahlenvergleich 2005

Wasser




November 2006

Description of progress

� Translation and implementation of the software – till march 2007

including test of the international versions

� Action plan for dissemination (flyer, homepage, presentations)

� Links to SUTOUR homepage are welcome

� special offer for 6-8 tourism enterprises to approach to a validation -> get a free support and guidance

to implement a systematic Environmental Management System

objective: inspection by an external auditor




November 2006

IERInstitut of Energy Economics and the Rational Use of Energy

University of Stuttgart

Heßbrühlstr. 49 a

70565 Stuttgart

Sven Eckardt

Head of Section Rational Use of Energy

�0049 – (0)711 / 685 878 – 63

� [email protected]




November 2006

Coming next

Thank you for your attention,

Efcharisto poli




November 2006

Agenda and Links

� EU-LIFE Tourbench : www.tourbench.info

� EU-LIFE Sutour : http://sutour.ier.uni-stuttgart.de

� Travelife Sustainability Store : www.its4travel.com

� Train to Eco-Label : www.traintoecolabel.org

Documents

IER - SETE library/GR/2006_ECKARD_detap.pdfInstitut für Energiewirtschaft und Rationelle Energieanwendung IER November 2006 292 363 367 266 374 211 288 183 0 50 100 150 200 250 300