The Regional Secretariat for the Environment and the Sea promotes on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, in Horta, Angra do Heroísmo and Ponta Delgada, respectively, sessions of diffusion of the Chave Verde program 2009 that will reckon with the participation of the Associação Bandeira Azul da Europa, national coordinator of the project.
The sessions are planned for 13.30 o’clock on Monday in the Noble Hall of the Chamber of Trade and Industry of Horta, for 10.30 of next day in the Noble Hall of the ancient head office of the Chamber of Trade of Angra do Heroísmo and for Wednesday, at 10.30, in the seat of the Chamber of Trade and Industry of Ponta Delgada.
All the interested ones in participating will have to confirm their presence next to the Office of Environmental Promotion, through the telephone 295 403 800 or through the fax 295 403 801 or the electronic address: [email protected].
The period for presentation of candidatures to the Chave Verde 2009, an international program of quality and environmental education that intends to join in its network all the hotel structures (hotels, lodgings, tourism in rural space) preoccupied with a better environment and that believe that having good environmental practices constitutes an every time bigger wish of their clients, occurs till the 15th of December.
The Chave Verde was born in 1981 in Denmark, being implemented today in 11 countries.
Introduced in Portugal in November of 2006, the program was implemented for the first time in the Azores in 2008, in an edition that reckoned with six Azorean tourist undertakings among 21 Portuguese rewarded.