We are pleased to be the bearers for another year of the “Blue Flag” recognition, the oldest award for beaches and harbors, recognizable worldwide.

The Blue Flag was created in 1985 by the French branch of the FEE as a national award for marinas and boats, which distinguishes from a distance those who love and protect the marine environment. Originally, the Blue Flag logo was inspired by that of another parallel initiative of that time, “Message to the Sea”, on the issue of the marine environment.

In 1987, Blue Flag was present in France, Spain, Denmark and Portugal, as an environmental education program for beaches and marinas, coordinated by the FEEE (Foundation for Environmental Education in Europe).

In 2001, South Africa joined the Blue Flag and, in 2004, several Caribbean countries awarded their first beaches. Thus, Blue Flag begins to be present in Africa and America. The FEEE is renamed FEE because its scope no longer extends beyond the European Union but beyond the European continent. Oceania became the fifth continent with a Blue Flag when in 2005 it was awarded to a marina in New Zealand. 

Currently, 47 countries, as diverse as the United Arab Emirates, Mexico or Japan, are already part of the Blue Flag, with their own NGOs in each country developing the program, in addition to other international programs of the FEE.

We are thus committed to continue respecting the environment, complying with the regulations and clauses necessary to remain worthy of this recognition.