ECO TOURISM
“The programme gives its clients an opportunity to engage with the local communities, to contribute to a child’s education and an environmental project”
community with careers at the hotel. Antigua & Barbuda has a well-established environmental awareness group which includes turtle watching amongst its projects. In Belize most hotels and resorts store and use rainwater and dive operators have been well trained in reef protection to advise visitors to the second largest barrier reef in the world.
VOLUNTOURISM Caribbean all-inclusive giant, Sandals Resorts is also well versed in voluntourism. The Sandals Foundation is now in its third year and has raised more than US$1.5million for programmes supporting education, communities and the environment in the Caribbean – such as educating Jamaican fishermen on the importance of preserving marine life to constructing schools. Sandals guests can get involved in the Reading Road Trip, a volunteer literacy programme aimed at improving listening, reading and comprehension skills of local five to seven year-olds in Saint Lucia, Antigua, the Bahamas, Turks & Caicos or Jamaica.
For Chris Blackwell’s Island Outpost properties in Jamaica, sustainability is not just about eco-friendly practices it is as much about cultural preservation and maintaining what is unique about their communities. Island ACTS funds and promotes better health, education and welfare in some of Jamaica’s poorest communities. In addition, The Oracabessa Foundation gives guests the chance to help its community by volunteering for tree planting and coral restoration. Such is the demand for volunteerism, that luxury tour operator, ITC, launched ITC Giving programme last year in partnership with award-winning People and Places. It has added a week-long programme in Saint Lucia to its portfolio of luxury volunteer travel holidays. The programme gives its clients an opportunity to engage with the local communities, to contribute to a child’s education and an environmental project. Visitors wanting an authentic experience of Amerindian Caribbean should head to Guyana, still with a dynamic mix of Amerindian and immigrant populations.
Main picture, opposite: a stroll through the rainforest of St. Kitts. Above, clockwise from left, rafting in Jamaica; the fauna of Puerto Rico; the grandeur of Grenada; and, below, the vervet monkey of the Caribbean
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