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Are you a manager, a technical expert in tourism
industry or a trainer willing to use an innovative
teaching tool in your classroom?

Would you like to get Tourism Energy Manager's
knowledge, skills and competences?

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Self-learning system for tourism industry managers and staff

Friendly, fast and easy access to training materials about energy
and natural resources management

Self-diagnostic tool about user’s knowledge

Training area with different useful contents and tools

An interactive section making more active the learning
and assessment process

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Our courses

Energy Efficient Hotels

Energy Efficient Hotels

In this training module number 1 you will find an overview of the energy efficiency in hotels. After going through the focus area of the topic (including transport, external supplies, hotel, gardening and catering) you will find one chapter dedicated to indicators and benchmarks divided in 5 sectors: good [...]

EU - Ecolabel

EU - Ecolabel

The specific aims of the project are to develop and disseminate a web-based environmental training programme for energy managers of the hospitality sector.

The modules can be summarised under the following headings: [...]

Heating, Ventilation and AC

Heating, Ventilation and AC

The Ventilation module is meant to teach the user how to reduce costs and energy through the ventilation system. The module is divided into several sections, starting with background information on ventilation systems, continuing with heating ventilation and air conditioning including [...]

Energy Consumption Monitoring

Energy Consumption Monitoring

The module 4 is dedicated to the energy consumption monitoring in hotels. It starts with energy indicators, benchmarks and variable. Then it goes thorough gas consumption and electricity consumption. The final part focuses on the multiregression analysis, monitoring and targeting.

Insulation

Insulation

The module number 5 is dedicated to explain the importance of a good insulation and the different ways of insulation, such as thermal insulation, underlining the disadvantages of a low efficiency distribution. Before starting with an insulation reform, it is important to keep in mind than an analysis [...]

Heating Systems

Heating Systems

This module focuses on heating systems. The following will be covered:

  • The main components of heating systems, their strengths and weaknesses.
  • Activities to decrease heat consumption by simple actions and to minimise [...]

Water Management

Water Management

The module number 7 focuses its teaching material on water management. The areas of work are: water consumption measurement, areas of water use (bathroom, laundry, swimming pools, grounds, kitchens, housekeeping.). It also includes a chapter on good [...]

Cooling Systems

Cooling Systems

The cooling module number 8 starts with a step-by-step guide on how to audit. It continues with a chapter on how to calculate the cooling energy consumption and losses. The last chapter is dedicated to the energy savings opportunities, including insulation, reduction of [...]

Energy Efficient Building Components

Equipment

The kitchen equipment module is divided into two sections, the first one dedicated to food preparing equipment and savings opportunities for its different components, such as cookers, ovens, ice cream freezers, minibars, dishwashers, etc. The second focuses on the ventilation system.

Lighting

Lighting

The main topic of this module number 10 are lighting sources and characteristics. The following subjects will be analyzed:

  • Lighting facts.
  • Wattage: traditional bulbs, fluorescent lamp standards, compact [...]

Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy

This module focuses on renewable energy. The following will be covered:

  • Wind energy;
  • Solar energy;
  • Photovoltaic;
  • Solar thermal;
  • Bioenergy; [...]

ECOTOUR E-LEARNING PLATFORM

One of the most important results of ECOTOUR project is the creation of an E-learning platform dedicated to the persons aiming to acquire the Tourism Energy Manager knowledge, skills and competences.
It is a self-learning system for managers and staff of the tourism industry, also for specialized trainers, which consist of:
1. The knowledge base that will allow a friendly, fast and easy access to materials and contents about energy and natural resources management (techniques tools solutions).
2. A self-diagnostic tool that will guide the user to proper materials according to the situation and specific application environment.
3. Training area with different useful contents and tools for energy and natural resources management (techniques tools solutions) for people management, as well as any other topic related to the object of the project. This section will contain in particular practical contents and hints to be directly exploited on the job.
4. An interactive section enriched by visual elements to make more active the learning and assessment process. A set of training materials will be available online in the elearning platform. The entire online course will have to provide substantial material for a period of at least 30 hours, during which an ordinary user can go through the course from one end to another.
5. Finally the user will be able to self-test and the platform e-learning will validate his results by downloading an online certificate that will recognize his/her knowledge and will certify the participation in the online course.
We hope you will find this e-learning platform useful for the organization you manage or work for in tourism sector and that it will be a valid and innovative teaching tool for the trainers to use it in the real classroom environments.

Our partners

Project: ECOTOUR- LLP-LdV-ToI-2013-RO-026- Management of Efficient Energy in Tourism Industry

Program: LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAM, Action: LEONARDO DA VINCI Transfer of innovation 2013

Financing Authority: ANPCDEFP Romania

Disclaimer: This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This website reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Other details about ECOTOUR project:

North-East Regional Development Agency
Mrs. Roxana Pintilescu
Project Manager Lead Partner ECOTOUR
Phone/Fax: 0233 218071/0233 222 432
E-mail: rpintilescu@adrnordest.ro
Agentia pentru Dezvoltare Regionala NORD-EST

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