Ciego de Avila, Cuba.- A group of hotels in the Cuban tourist destination Jardines del Rey have achieved good results in meeting environmental standards aimed at achieving sustainable tourism.
For this reason, the delegation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment in Ciego de Avila, 430km east of Havana, gave them special recognition for their integration into the environment and appropriate use of natural resources.
The distinguished hotels are the Meliá and Pestana in Cayo Coco, and Iberostar Daiquirí and Playa Pilar, in Cayo Guillermo, which also maintain a sustained work in the fight against pollution and in the protection of flora and fauna.
They also use the native vegetation of the coastal zones, both in the gardening and the areas near the hotels, and maintain the strip of the dune in a natural state.
The rational use of water and the application of measures for saving the liquid, as well as the protection of the dunes by means of the construction of catwalks to the zones of bath, were other aspects to take into account.
The hotel facilities are coupled with the surroundings, where ecological and landscape values abound, very well inserted in the architecture of the buildings.