Abu Dhabi outlines beach water management guidelines for hotels
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In a bid to ensure a healthy environment for its visiting tourist and doing away with pollution, Abu Dhabi’s tourism and environmental sectors have come together to enhance management of the emirate’s resort waters.
Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) along with Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi (EAD), has published a guideline – Management of Beach Water Quality for Human Health at Abu Dhabi Hotels. This guide outlines procedures now mandatory for the emirate’s 24 beachfront resorts.
“Abu Dhabi has many beaches and as with other beaches around the world, there is the possibility that they may be affected by pollution. We must therefore be prepared to deal with this situation, however uncommon it is. This guideline sits within the tourism sector’s environment, health and safety management system framework and is focussed on protecting guest health,” said Nasser Al Reyami, TCA Abu Dhabi’s director standards, regulations & licensing. “It will provide a higher standard for public health than the privately-run ‘Blue Flag’ programme which some hotels have voluntarily adopted.”
The new guidelines will assist in making better informed decisions. The 28-page guideline clearly lays out management approach to pollution incidents, identifies specific roles and responsibilities and details a nine-step procedure for developing a beach water quality monitoring programme. TCA Abu Dhabi is now planning to roll out the guideline training to the emirate’s 24 beach properties, 13 of which are on Abu Dhabi island.
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