280218_Luxor-Egypt SECAP Final_revised

- Municipality and Governorate – Governor’s
approval.
C. Staff training needs
Governorate (Municipality) staff related to the
issue of Sustainable Energy and Green
Tourism will be assigned to receive training on
four subjects:
• Questions related to sustainable energy
including solar water heating (SWH), PV,
solutions and technologies,
• Strategic Management of Sustainable
Energy issues,
• Organisational solutions and technical
questions related converting Hotels and
resorts by natural gas development and
integrate solar water heating in them as
well as floating hotels, and
• Project management.
A Strategic Sustainable Energy Unit (SSEU) to
be developed and established to oversee the
training of staff and all concerned issue and
ensure the implementation of the plan actions
of SECAP.
d. Role of Partners
Stakeholders:
- All stakeholders should be invited to specific workshop
to design the strategic road map to start transferring
hotels and resorts from fossil fuels mainly diesel to
natural gas and Electricity to Solar thermal. This could
include hotel/resorts owners and managers.
- Training is also needed to transfer the message of clean
and green tourism to all parties involved,
- The Governorate and City of Luxor to coordinate the
procedures approval with different related authorities
in close contact with the Governorate such as: MoERE
and NREA, EEAA, MoTrm. Also special coordination
with the following entities:
• MoPMRs through EGAS and Ganub el Wady via EGC
to ensure constant supply of natural gas to Hotels
and Resorts,
• Coordination with Ministry of Transport (MoTr)
River Transport Authority (RTA),
• Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MoWRI)
through the General Administration for Nile river
Protection (GANRP), and
• Ministry of Interior via Civil Defence Dept. (CDD),
- All should be invited to specific to facilitate the action
project to follow up the implementation upon funding.
- The GTU of MoTrm and EGAS and Ganoub El Wady
through EGC to check on the installation procedures of
the connections, implementation and test the safety of
converted Hotel in the Eastern part of the city to
operate by natural gas, and meters installation, and
monitor the operation and re-license.
5. Summary of related Awareness Raising (AR) actions for Action ≠ 4 (Green Hotels & Resorts)
A communication plan needs to be developed to highlight the benefits of a new strategic and comprehensive
sustainable energy (energy efficiency) plan to brand the City of Luxor as a clean and green city including the
use of natural gas instead of electricity in hotels and resorts as well diesel in floating hotels for heating water.
Also, an adequate awareness raising actions will be necessary to help Governorate of Luxor promote the value
of Green Hotels through greening these facilities as well as the benefit hotels owners and managers of such
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