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AquaCity Resort sponsors world's first carbon neutral rally

29th August 2007 Print
AquaCity Resort The world's first ‘carbon neutral' rally takes place this weekend, 31st August - 1st September, sponsored by British owned AquaCity Resort, Slovakia, Europe's number one environmentally friendly holiday destination.

To enable the sport to return to mountains of northern Slovakia, AquaCity resort has notionally donated its carbon saving surplus to the event to offset the carbon emissions from the event, the penultimate round of the Slovak Rally Championship.

It is the first time for 7 years that the sport has been allowed to take place in the protected mountainous region of the High Tatras, AquaCity’s involvement lending its green credentials to enable the event to go ahead.

The resort’s two hotels are also hosting many of the thirty drivers and crews, enabling them to minimise their personal carbon footprint, compared with staying in a conventionally powered hotel, and the formal presentation to the winners and teams will take place in the AquaCity conference centre, a uniquely powered green conference complex.

British based owner and CEO, Mr. Jan Telensky, explained “AquaCity is virtually self-powered, using geothermal water and solar power, saving around 27 tonnes of carbon emissions from entering the atmosphere each day.

AquaCity was built to show the world that being green can still be affordable, enjoyable and luxurious.

We’re notionally donating our carbon saving to the `Tempus Rally’ for the duration of the event to demonstrate that being green doesn’t have to totally take the enjoyment out of life. Even an apparently non-eco event like a rally could still take place if major carbon savings were to be made in other areas, such as we do every day at AquaCity.

By working closely with AquaCity, it’s not just the drivers who will be winners at the end of August, it’s the planet too”.

For more information, visit Aquacityresort.com.

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