Table of Contents
Introduction
Data Sources
What is Eco-accommodation?
-
- Definitions
- Principles and guidelines
The Eco-Accommodation Market
-
- South Africa’s resilience
- Other major players in ecotourism
- Australia
- Costa Rica
-
- Figure 1: Costa Rica tourism income from international arrivals, 2000-06
-
- Figure 2: Projected growth of tourism in Costa Rica’s travel and tourism economy, 2007-17
- Sabah, Malaysia
-
- Figure 3: Visitor arrivals in Sabah, Jan-July 2006 & 2007
- Tanzania
-
- Figure 4: Visitor arrivals in Tanzania, 1995-2006
-
- Figure 5: Annual occupancy rate at Chumbe Island Coral Park, 1998-2006
- Driving factors
- The ecotourist
- Industry comment: interview with Antonis B Petropoulos, director, Ecoclub SA
Marketing Eco-accommodation
-
-
- Figure 6: How visitors heard about Chumbe, 2006-07
- Constituency building
- The Greenbox
- Eco-accommodation marketing agencies that build constituencies
- Ecoclub SA
- Responsible Travel
- The ‘boy scout’ effect
- Eco-accreditation schemes for accommodation providers: overview and purpose
- The Certification in Sustainable Tourism (CST) programme
- Ecotourism Kenya
- EU Eco-label
- International Ecotourism Standard – Green Globe 21 and Ecotourism Australia
- Other useful accreditation
- Awards
- Responsible Tourism Awards
- Tourism for Tomorrow – WTTC
- The World Travel Awards (WTA)
-
Eco-accommodation Typologies and Technology
-
- Categories of eco-accommodation
- Technology and techniques
- Water
- Energy
- Building materials
- Solid waste
Key Eco-accommodation Market Players
-
- Eco-accommodation management and development companies
- The Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts
- Cayuga Hospitality
- Conservation Corporation Africa (CC Africa)
- Wilderness Safaris
- Designers and providers of technology and resources
- Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT)
- EDSA
- Hitesh Mehta, HM Design
Case Studies of Eco-accommodation
-
- The Black Sheep Inn, Ecuador
- Community and education
- Zero waste – reduce, re-use and recycle
- Water supply and waste water
- Energy conservation
-
- Figure 7: Projected electricity consumption savings, 2005-06
- Figure 8: Total cost of new energy efficient electrical system, 2005-06
- Industry comment: interview with Andres Hammerman, co-owner, The Black Sheep Inn
- Chumbe Island Coral Park, Zanzibar, Tanzania
- Accommodation technological features
- Industry comment: interview with Sibylle Riedmiller, owner and project director, Chumbe Island Coral Park
What Next?
-
- Credibility issues
- The future market
-
- Figure 9: Ecotourists per age bracket versus total tourists, 2002*
- Emerging destinations
- Algeria
- Brazil
- China
- The Gambia
- India
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Nicaragua
- Venezuela
Back to top