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Ten years later, when it organized the First National Meeting of Turismo de Habitao, it created the brand Solares de Portugal. TURIHAB received the Prize of the European Year of Tourism (1990), the Gold Medal of Tourism Merit, and the European Tourism and Environment Prize, and the honorable mention .Architectural Heritage .(1995). It received European Commission mention, . owards Quality Rural Tourism - Integrated Quality Management of Rural Tourist destination. (1999); it received from the Association of Tourism Journalists, the prize of Tourism Personality (1999), and the Federation of European Journalists Prize, for its European Web Project - .Europe of Traditions. (2002). The certification of TURIHAB, CENTER (2005), with the ISO9001, and the Solares de Portugal network with the ERS3001:TER (2006) and NP4494:2010 (2011) underlines our total commitment to implementing the strict regulations that govern tourist country accommodation and reinforces our determination to maintain and continually improve our services that merit the AICEP Marca Portugal (2006). To achieve and guarantee the quality offered by Solares de Portugal is the result of 30 years of effort of TURIHAB, its partners and, most of all, its association of owners without whom it would not be possible to create a national system of this nature and size. This commitment to providing high quality accommodation in distinctive family properties is reflected at the European Union level through the network Europe of Traditions(www.europetraditions.com) and in the South American Mercosul countries with the Fazendas do Brasil(www.fazendasdobrasil.com). In 2009 TURIHAB present a new brand: Casas no Campo - These are country houses or villas carefully restored to be reconverted into rural tourism with very high stander of quality. The logo of TURIHAB reflects the authentic and a personalized way to know the particularities of each region, its festivities, gastronomy, its customs and traditions, and includes the symbols of the pheasant (simplicity), the rose (beautiful and secret), gold (justice), silver (friendship), red (worthiness), and green (courtesy). TURIHAB Associao do Turismo de Habitao summary:Headquarters in Ponte de LimaCreated the brand Solares de PortugalCreated the brand Casas no CampoConstituted three International Consortia - Europe of Traditions; Fazendas do Brasil e Europe of Traditions - EUROTRADOrganised ten Internacional Seminars with the Consortia PartnersOrganised four Nacional Meetings of Turismo de HabitaçãoFounder of ADRIL - Associação de Desenvolvimento Integrado do LimaFounder Member of ADETURNConstituted CENTER - Central Nacional do Turismo no Espaço Rural together with ATA - Associação do Turismo de AldeiaMember of the National Board of TourismMember of Confederação Portuguesa do TurismoMember of Comissão Portuguesa de Normalização para o Turismo - CT 144Member of Comissão de Acompanhamento para o Turismo do Norte de PortugalReceived the European Year of Tourism Award in 1990Won the Personality award "Portugal Turismo actualidade" in 1993Received the European Tourism and Environment Prize - Honorable Mention "Ponte de Lima - Special Jury Prize for the restoration of Architectural Heritage" em 1995Received the 1995 Gold Medal of Tourist MeritReceived the award from Associação dos Jornalistas Portugueses de Turismo, "Tourist Personality "of the year 1999Received the Award from Federação de Jornalistas Europeus, for the "Europe of Traditions" European network Project in 2002Certified with the ISO 9001/2000, developed the ERS 3001 - Service Requirements Specification in Turismo de Habitação and Turismo no Espaço Rural for the certification of the Solares de Portugal in 2006The brand Solares de Portugal received the "Marca Portugal" certification, from AICEP in 2006Received the Prize awarded by APCER for Pioneering of TURIHAB in the certification of Tourism in Portugal, in 2009Honorable Mention awarded by Turismo de Portugal as part of the 2010 Tourism Awards, in the Quality of Service categoryParticipated in development and design of the quality norm for Turismo de Habitação and TER - NP4494:2010, promoting its implementation through the certification of the Solares de Portugal e Casas no Campo networksDeveloped the project "Creation of equestrian itineraries", promoted by Turismo de Portugal and in a shared action with Turismo do Porto e Norte, with the definition and creation of a methodology and requirements applicable to Equestrian Tourism in 2011ABOUT US