280218_Luxor-Egypt SECAP Final_revised

155 boats with an average fuel consumption of 20 litres per day per boat, i.e. 3,100 liters daily. Hence, the
total diesel consumption reaches 1,116,000 litres per year. On land, there are 972 vehicles run by diesel (407
large buses and 565 Microbuses), and 865 vehicles run by gasoline (425 Microbuses and 440 cars), all
dedicated to tourists’ transportation. In total tourists’ transportation represents an annual consumption of
790,382 MWh/year.
Apart from transport the tourism sector in Luxor consumes 51,464 MWh/year (27,191 from hotels, and
24,273 from tourist attraction such as heritage sites).
4.2.2.2 Possible actions
There are naturally four areas that would require action to improve the sustainability profile of the tourism
sector in Luxor: hotel and resorts; cruise fleet; land transportation; heritage sites.
However, any action should start with a significant effort in raising awareness among tourism operators to
highlight the potential benefits of green practices for their business (cost cutting from efficiency gains) and
the improved attractiveness for visitors that are more and more sensitive to responsible practices in tourism
like in many other sectors.
Hotels and resorts
The Governorate of Luxor needs to engage hotels and resorts in the energy transition, promoting significant
efforts to reduce energy consumption, improve waste management and switch, as far as possible, from fossil
fuels to renewable energy (solar water heating, solar PV, biogas, etc.).
Energy efficiency in hotels and resorts should be promoted through highlighting the positive return on
investment of any efforts engaged to reduce energy consumption: adequate air-conditioning management,
efficient lighting… Resorts and hotels have been promoting the efficient use of water inviting their customers
to minimize their demands in new towels and bed sheets. They now have to promote electricity saving
through responsible behaviour from their clients. They also can adopt all technologies that will provide more
efficient use of energy.
Resort and hotels should also use the large surfaces they have in roofs to install solar systems to produce
heat and electricity (Solar PV), which are the two types of energy services they actually need. In most of the
cases, solar heating water could be sufficient to produce sanitary water and warm swimming pools.
Last but not least a special project could be developed to reduce food wastage and collect food waste from
hotels and resorts. Hotels produce an average of 38 tons of solid waste daily (13,870 tons per year). Most of
this waste is organic waste. This material combined with other sources of bio-waste available in the
Governorate of Luxor could be used to feed in bio-digesters that would produce biogas to be used in buses
or car reducing air pollution and GHG emissions.
Such a transition is not obvious for tourism operators who have always been working a classical way
consuming cheap energy as if it would always be without any adverse consequences. To shift behaviour and
speed up the shift, the Governorate should establish a “Green tourism support unit” providing advices to
tourism operators willing to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy. This technical unit will ensure
audits to any resort and hotel willing to make necessary investments to contribute to the SECAP adopted in
the City of Luxor – Governorate of Luxor.
The technical unit could also set up an investment fund that would help resorts and hotels doing the right
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