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Beer o’clock ‘keeps the forest standing’ at Cardamom Tented Camp, Cambodia

July 17, 2024

Cardamom Tented Camp in Cambodia has launched its own conservation beer, Cardamom Mountains Steam Beer, with the tagline, “Your Beer Keeps the Forest Standing”.

Car­damom Ten­ted Camp in Cam­bod­ia has launched its own con­ser­va­tion beer with the tagline, “Your Beer Keeps the Forest Stand­ing”. Profits from the Car­damom Moun­tains Steam Beer, now avail­able at the eco­lodge, help fund the con­ser­va­tion work of 16 forest rangers who pro­tect 18,000 hec­tares (180 km²) of sur­round­ing low­land ever­green forest in the Botum […]

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Inclusions: How a little place near Angkor became one of the world’s best hotels

and June 18, 2024

Jaya House River Park: How a little place near Angkor became one of the world’s best hotels

There’s a lot of good going on behind the leafy green exter­i­or of one of the world’s best hotels. And much of it is “rather easy”. Talk is cheap. Chris­ti­an de Boer is tired of the hypo­crisy that runs rampant in the travel & tour­ism industry, such as “the B Corps that can’t wait to give […]

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Ecotourism experiences refreshed for 2023 at Anurak Community Lodge, Thailand

January 5, 2023

Anurak Trail - Ecotourism experiences refreshed for 2023 at Anurak Community Lodge in Thailand. Image supplied by Anurak.

Lever­aging its stun­ning loc­a­tion at the edge of the biod­iversity hot­spot of Khao Sok Nation­al Park in Thai­l­and, Anurak Com­munity Lodge is offer­ing its nature-lov­ing guests refreshed eco­tour­ism activ­it­ies.  Gen­er­al Man­ager Trav­is Clark reveals what vis­it­ors can look for­ward to in the new year.  As 2022 slips into 2023, down in the south of Thai­l­and, Anurak […]

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How a human rights approach can help hotels improve their water management

and October 18, 2022

Hotels and the human right to water. Image by mrjn Photography (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/YpZ2cj4s0oo

Accom­mod­a­tion ser­vice pro­viders are expec­ted to hon­our the human right to water of all those around them.  Hoteliers should view this respons­ib­il­ity not as a bur­den, but as an oppor­tun­ity to mean­ing­fully and con­tinu­ally engage with des­tin­a­tion stake­hold­ers while devel­op­ing more effi­cient and sus­tain­able water and waste man­age­ment sys­tems. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight by […]

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Cardamom Tented Camp wins HICAP Sustainable Hotel Award for Climate Action

October 13, 2022

Cardamom Tented Camp wins HICAP Sustainable Hotel Award for Climate Action

Car­damom Ten­ted Camp in Cam­bod­ia has won the 2022 Hotel Invest­ment Con­fer­ence Asia Pacific (HICAP) Sus­tain­able Hotel Award for Cli­mate Action. Apart from cli­mate action, there were awards for build­ing preservation/adaptive reuse, pos­it­ive com­munity impact, and sus­tain­able design. The BHN Group, which runs the HICAP event, announced the win­ners on 12 Octo­ber. Sev­en judges, mostly […]

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Belgian B&B implements sustainable circular solutions: A case study

, and August 16, 2022
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Lighthouse at Nieuwpoort, Belgium. By Wouter Martens (CC0) via Unsplash. Arrows by GDJ (CC0) via Pixabay.

A bed & break­fast in Nieuw­poort, Bel­gi­um has lever­aged the sup­port of a European Uni­on-fun­­ded pro­ject to imple­ment viable ‘cir­cu­lar’ solu­tions. Accord­ing to authors Angelo Sciacca, Lucien von Schomberg, and Eline Brutyn, the B&B’s own­ers have set a good example for oth­er travel & tour­ism entre­pren­eurs to fol­low.  It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too […]

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