Sustainability and New Alternatives for Golf Courses

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Sustainability and New Alternatives for Golf
Courses

• RAMÓN DAVILA GUERRERO
• Technical Symposium Grupo Joly La Caixa
• Innovation in tourism
• 5th of November 2008

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Sustainable tourism

• Objetives

• Match the pace of growth with the capacity of the
  territory.
• Maintain and enhance the appeal of the
  destination.
• Differentiate and enhance the products and
  tourist destinations.
• Maintain and professionalize the employment.
• Long-Term Sustainability
• Economic Viability.
• Social equity.

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Sustainable and Balanced development

• Sustainable Tourism

• Advantages
• Diversification of local economy.
• Planning appropiate to the capacity of the
  ecosystem.
• Monitors and evaluates impacts and develops
  environmental responsibility.
• Stimulates the profitability of industries.
• Improves self-estem of local people and increase
  the value of the enviroment.
• Provides integration processes between
  planification y management.
• Ensures a sustainable model in terms of social,
  environmental and economics parameters.

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Innovation in tourism

• Innovations results in improved product and
  service offered

• Innovacion is presented as the only way to
  improve

• Sustainable Tourism
• Tourist Mix
• New technologies
• Area of touristic interest
• Consolidation of the brand
• Senior Tourism

• Competitivity
• Efficiency
• Effectiveness

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Elements of the new Sustainable Tourism Model
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Objetives of tourism from a sustainable approach
Fuente Seminario Internacional sobre
municipalización del turismo y desarrollo local.
OMT. 2006.
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Sustainable Tourism Development
The WTO raises the concept of Sustainable Tourism
Developement, based on the following objectives
Fuente 1ª Jornada de Turismo Sostenible. Aragón
2005.
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LEVELS OF SUSTAINABILITY IN GOLF DESTINATIONS

• SUSTAINABLE PLANIFICATION OF DESTINATION
• SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF DESTINATION
• SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT AT CORPORATE LEVEL

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Sustainable Planification in Golf Tourism
Destination

• Territory Analisis
• Analysis of the carrying capacity.
• Analysis of the destination resources.
• Analysis of Destinations potential.
• Destinations SWOT analysis.
• Guidelines for Plans and Programs (Regionals and
  Subregionals ).
• New technologies for the planification of
  touristic destination (GIS)
• Coordination between land use planning and urban
  and touristic planning.

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LEVELS OF SUSTAINABILITY IN GOLF DESTINATIONS
SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF DESTINATIONS

• Implementation and monitoring system of
  sustainability indicators
• Specific management for Golf destinations
• General standards of quality in the design,
  construction and management of the golf courses.
• Widespread deployment of the certificates of
  quality and environmental management ISO 9001 y
  14001
• Implementation of law 43/2008

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LEVELS OF SUSTAINABILITY IN GOLF DESTINATIONS
SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT IN GOLF COURSES

• Quality as a goal
• Optimum technological level
• Renewable energies
• Water management
• Management of fertilizers and chemicals
• Waste management
• Quality and environmental management systems
• Pursue the enforcement of the law 43/2008

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Law 43/2008, for golf courses
ANDALUCIAN MODEL OF SUSTAINABILITY IN GOLF COURSES

• Advantages presented to the planning of the
  territory

• Regulation of present and future courses.
• Quality label Golf Course of Touristic
  Interest.
• Improves diseasonalisation of tourism.
• Enhances the use of renewable energies.
• Improves the appropiate use of land.
• Enforces the implementation of environmental and
  quality certificates for Golf Courses of
  Touristic Interest.

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Courses of touristic interest

• Achieves

• Advantages

• Promotion
• Brand
• Qualifications
• Quality
• Sustainability

• Bioclimatic Design
• Lanscaping
• Use of renewable energies
• Preservation of Nature
• Plan of Quality and environmental management
  systems (ISO 9001 y 14001)

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Innovation and New Alternatives in Golf courses

• Implementation of environmental management
  systems
• Diagnosis and action plans for each course
• Promotion on a volunteer basis, of pilot proyects
  of implementation of EMAS II, or others such as
  "Committed to the environment"
• Management of water resources
• Stabilization of administrative situations
• Increased use of recycled water
• Reduction of consumption through agricultural
  management
• Energy management
• Promoting enery saving and the use of renewable
  energies

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Innovation y New Alternatives in Golf Courses

• Waste management
• Set up of clean points for the separation and
  storage of waste
• Careful management of hazardous and organic waste
• Improvement of ecological habitats
• Naturalization of wetlands and natural habitat
  creation within the course
• Landscaping Integration
• Enhancing the natural landscape, especially in
  areas not used for the game
• Education and communication
• Development of training programs and
  environmental communication address to
  consumers, managers and field workers