CASTWATER celebrates the Sustainable Tourism Water Management Conference
The partnership of the CASTWATER project is completing
the 36-months of work at its last committee meeting at the Siete Coronas
Occidental Hotel in Murcia for the Conference Sustainable Tourism Water
Management-Perspectives for Tourism Development in the Mediterranean Water
Scarcity Areas. At the event, around one hundred experts and representatives from
seven Mediterranean countries met in order to exchange information to improve
the use of water in the tourism sector.
The host Mr Antonio Martínez Nieto, Secretary-General of
the IEA Foundation welcomed the guests along with Mr Francisco Bernabé, Director of the Tourism Institute of Murcia and
Mrs Theopisti Birliraki, vice mayor of Tourism and Culture, Municipality of
Rethymno, Greece.Afterwards, the professors Mrs
María Hernández and Mr Carlos Baños, from the University of Alicante, offered a
study on the supply and demand of water in the tourism sector of the Region of
Murcia and Alicante, highlighting the aspects to be corrected and at the same
time the achievements to reduce consumption and make it more responsible.
Worth mentioning is the contribution and collaboration of manages of the private sector such as the directors of Parador del Saler and Global Omnium of Valencia (Spain), as well as public authorities, representatives from the Mediterranean countries such as Malta, France, Italy, Croatia, Cyprus, who showed their common concern to make the tourism sector more sustainable in water management in all its activities.
