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The use of renewable energy sources is one of TUI AG's main priorities to minimise impact on the local environment and global climate. The proportion of renewable energies providing heat and power in TUI hotels is set to increase in future.

ROBINSON Club

The proportion of ROBINSON clubs with solar collectors is now 46%. ROBINSON also pursues new concepts for energy production. The Amadé ROBINSON Club in Kleinarl (Salzburger Land, Austria) uses energy from a CO2-neutral biomass power plant using ultramodern condensation technology. The plant was built in spring 2004 in co-operation with the club investors, farmers in Kleinarl, and two companies, Nahwärme GmbH and AESG.

Local farmers supply the biomass plant with shredded wood chips from the forests – a renewable resource.

The club was able to dispense with the complex construction measures which would have been involved for the installation of an oil heating system, and Nahwärme Kleinarl was able to supply heat to a large part of the village centre thanks to the support of this major customer. Up to 100% of the ROBINSON Club's requirements for heat and hot water are supplied by this modern plant. The plant makes annual savings of around 800,000 litres of heating oil possible.

ROBINSON Club Amade, Kleinarl, Oesterreich

Iberotel Sarigerme Park – Parabolic trough solar systems

The Iberotel Sarigerme Park has been a leader in environmental innovation for 15 years. The world’s first parabolic trough high temperature solar system was commissioned at the Iberotel Sarigerme Park in April 2004. The parabolic trough collectors at the hotel are the optimal technology to solve the cooling problems in sunny countries. The solar collectors are used simultaneously to air-condition the hotel as well as generate warm water.

Magic Life

A pine wood in ten years. MAGIC LIFE has taken on an extraordinary environmental project for the protection of the environment. The team at the ISO 14001-certified MAGIC LIFE Waterworld Imperial in Turkey is to create a new wood by planting and caring for pine seedlings on a 300,000 square metre site. The area, which was previously covered by a pine wood until it was destroyed by a fire, will be made available to the club by the local forestry authorities in Serik. After ten years the “MAGIC LIFE Waterworld Forest“, which by then will be well established following this planting campaign, is to be handed back to the authorities as a fully fledged wood.

To kick off the environmental project students of the local Tourism and Hotel College will plant the first 500 seedlings on 21 March 2007. Hotel managers and club guests will plant a further 1,000 young trees at the beginning of April.

The Magic Life Club Sirene Imperial also makes an exemplary contribution to climate protection. In February 2007, the club converted its heating systems from high-emission fuel (heating oil) to emission-friendly fuel (natural gas). In addition to considerable cost savings, this has also markedly reduced the emissions generated by the Magic Life Club.

Nordotel

World of TUI's hotel brand Nordotel, with seven hotels on the Canary Islands, uses renewable energy sources.

Nordotel initiated its environmental activities in 2001 and concentrates on continually improving its environmental performance. A big priority here was given to the use of renewable energy sources. Six of the hotels use solar heating plants to cover 70 % of their heating needs.

The Tres Vidas Nordotel in Bahia Feliz has installed a photovoltaic plant with an output of 5.7 kW. Expansion to 100 kW is planned