Update: Eco-Luxury resorts

Eco-Luxury tourism is bringing eco-tourism to the luxury travel jet set.

Trend Description:

We already reported about this subtrend of Easy-Ethics (please read our blog-entry on Easy Ethics), which combines ecological values and luxury. Eco-tourism is popular amongst environmentally conscious travelers for years. Eco-Luxury (please read our blog on Eco-Luxury) tourism is bringing eco-tourism to the luxury travel jet set. We collected some more case studies about eco luxury travel destinations offering organic foods and incorporating innovative heating and other environmental innovations.

Cases:

Crosswaters
The Crosswaters Ecolodge & Spa is tasked by the Chinese Central Government to become a model of sustainable design. It features 49 feng-shui’d villas and suites—each constructed out of locally grown bamboo and appointed with organic local textiles. Just 2 ½ hours northeast from Hong Kong the Crosswaters Ecolodge lays in the Nankun Mountain Reserve, right next to a river. Guest can receive their treatments in open-air spa suites and are invited to visit tribal villages, to practice tai chi in a forest studio and to experience regional wine-making techniques.

Bespoke Experience
Bespoke Experience owns and operates exclusive eco lodges, developed and ran using fair trade principles. The objective is to create high-end tourism lodges, which enable communities to work their way out extreme poverty. Guludo Beach Lodge in Mozambique was the first of these lodges to open. The Mipande Bush Lodge is scheduled to open in December 2007. Bespoke Experience is also involved in a variety of projects supporting the surrounding area.

Orchard Garden Hotel
The Orchard Garden is San Francisco’s ‘greenest’ hotel. It is first urban hotel in the US to earn the US Green Building Council LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) certificate. The rooms features include high-speed Internet and Wi-Fi access, high definition LCD television with DVD and CD player, iPod docking station, and Aveda organic bath products. Some of the ‘green’ features are in-room recycling system, chemical-free cleaning products, compact fluorescent light bulbs and a 100% tobacco-free environment.

Warapuru
Warapuru is a luxury resort and spa in Brazil, which will open in the spring of 2007. Nestled in between the beach and the rain forest, it features a design hotel, private pavilions and villas. For treatments only locally sourced materials and native plants are used.

Trend Impact:
Eco Luxury Tourism is not only a great way to travel in a responsible way, it also enables tourism to give something back to the “beautiful areas of the world it exploits” (quote from the Website of Bespoke Experience). Luxury Eco Ressorts can help local communities to work their way out of poverty, and to safeguard environmental resources and cultural integrity. Eco Luxury Ressorts might be one profitable possibility to save and protect some culturally and environmentally interesting and important regions.

Crosswaters Info (please scroll down)

Bespoke Experience

Orchard Garden Hotel

Warapuru

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