Hotel Fuerte el Rompido has received the ‘TUI Umwelt Champion’ award granted by the German clients of the first European tour-operator, ‘World of TUI’, in recognition of its environmental management, the neat service offered by the hotel staff and the good upkeep of the hotel facilities during the 2005/2006 season
The chairwoman of the Fuerte Group, Mrs. Isabel García Bardón (to the right) and the manager of Hotel Fuerte el Rompido, Mr. Roberto Rodríguez (to the left), receive the TUI UMWELT CHAMPION award from the TUI representatives.
Out of the 12,000 worldwide holiday hotels the Huelva hotel is one of the 100 best hotels due to the use of the ISO 14001 tool, referred to the environmental management systems which has made Hotel Fuerte El Rompido be among the first ecological hotels worldwide and the first one nationwide.
Hotel Fuerte Conil apart from receiving the TUI UMWELT award as well, and for the second consecutive year, has obtained the seventh position within the prestigious classification made annually by the German tour-operator TUI.
Hotel Fuerte el Rompido, one of the El Fuerte Group hotels, has been designed in a sustainable way from its very beginning and all along its exploitation. For that reason environmental impact has been minimized by integrating the hotel within its surroundings, all measures aimed to control all waste generated have been operated, energy is being saved thanks to the use of solar panels or the social-economic development of the area where the hotel is run is being promoted.
In this respect a number of ecological measures have been taken into account when building Hotel Fuerte el Rompido, specially those related to bioclimatism, aimed to save the maximum possible energy and identifying the best exposures; to mention a few, massive plantation of shrubs and bushes has taken place to the West side of the hotel, broom is an excellent natural ‘wind stopper’ and the use of opening carpentry in the upper part of the hotel lobby. | 
