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Greening Our World
Eco Hotel For Green Tourists
The Seasons in Africa tourism, marketing and management company is expanding its eco-friendly hotel options for travellers who want to decrease their carbon footprint and visit environmentally sustainable destinations.
The group recently won a Platinum Award for the best stand for large accommodation at the recent Tourism Indaba 2010 in Durban.
“Our objective was to create an exhibition environment that is both beautiful and responsible to our earth, reflecting our undertaking and commitment to the environment, our guests and our communities,” said Patrick Siebel, Managing Director for Seasons in Africa.
The group’s most recent “green” leisure project is the Casterbridge Hollow Hotel in White River, which is an extension to the Hollow on the Square Hotel in Cape Town.
The hotel has 26 standard rooms and 4 deluxe family suites where every possible detail has been attended to in order to save energy. It supports the use sustainable and green energy, such as solar power whilst reducing dependence on coal-generated energy.
”Our passion for untamed nature and sustainable resources prompted this pioneering investment into environmentally friendly building principles and practices,” says Siebel.
One of the most important and often overlooked aspects of sustainable travel is the impact on local communities. “We believe that people are just as important, and we are not just investing in environmental conservation, but also in the communities in which we operate,” says Siebel.
”Through the Seasons in Africa Foundation we empower our local communities to help themselves through thoughtfully planned and responsibly initiated programs to ultimately alleviate poverty, increase local pride and ownership and create sustainable alternatives to destructive use of resources.”
The development of tourism in natural areas can destroy the very qualities of the destination that brought travellers in the first place. Tourism growth in an area can lead to the loss of wildlife habitat from growing population pressures and the construction of tourism facilities, degradation of environment and water due to improper waste management, loss of cultural identity and traditional land-use strategies by indigenous cultures and unsustainably large demands for energy from new development.
Seasons in Africa is seeking to give travellers the experience of luxury without compromising the environment.
Source: SA Good News
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