Costa Rica tourism industry, like in many other countries, has been impacted by the health measurements taken by the COVID-19. The country has been one of the few Latin American countries that had closed borders to international arrivals from the very beginning of the pandemic. This has had a great benefit for the citizens and resident's health sin...
Snowflakes are nature’s spectacular manifestation that symbolize exemplary climate conditions in the mountains of Chitral, Pakistan. It is a critical source to replenish underground water reservoirs that feed fresh springs and streams vital to sustain subsistent agriculture locally. When snowflakes whirl along the wind and its white sheet drapes over trees, land, v-shaped valleys, ledges and icy lakes, it offers real excitement for adventurists, trekkers, and nature lovers. In winter, snowdrift is also a sensational phenomenon and it would be an outwardly experience on snowy day to stand atop a windy crest with fog engulfing all around and feeling the caress of snowflakes on one’s face. At this point pleasant melancholy overcomes and creative artistic vision is refreshed when thick snow layer mutes the gurgling streams and morning fog rolls into the village. With thigh-deep snow, steep landscape and mountain gorges, district Chitral is dubbed as ‘the land of avalanches’. In February and March, the cloud of avalanches is seen in the mountain at a stone’s throw from the villages. A heavenly feeling is experienced when waterfowls fly past the screen of snowflakes beating it down. To sum it, snowflake is life. It is a pivot around which the entire life...
More than 7 out of 10 travellers are willing to choose a more eco-friendly holiday by staying in nature-responsible accommodations. Green tourism activities as agrotourism, wine tourism or spiritual retreats are growing fast and becoming trendy in France. Moreover, the lockdown due to the current health crisis has pushed French tourists to apprecia...
-Tehri Dam is one of the highest dams in India and the highest high altitude dam in the world. It is a multipurpose rock and earth-fill embankment dam on the confluence of river Bhagirathi and Bhilangna in Tehri district of Garhwal Himalayas. Tehri Dam a reservoir spread in 42sqs kms with multipurpose use like for irrigation, municipal water supply...
KERALA: A land that never fails to leave a tourist speechless with its divine natural beauty, a destination that is a narrow strip of land located at the tip of India. Kerala is blessed with an array of different landscapes, such as quiet backwaters, pristine beaches, lush green forests, and many more natural attractions. Kerala is undoubtedly a fu...
Green Skills Development will be of high importance in the post-pandemic world. An innovative eight-day workshop took place at the Garhwal Regional Centre, Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand, in March last year entitled "Rural Technology Connect for Green Skill Development, Harnessing Bioresource Potential for Livelihood Enhancement and Natural Resource...
The Ninki Nanka Trail is a Gambian initiative that aims to pioneer a responsible approach tocommunity-based tourism in rural communities along The River Gambia, bringing together a widerange of stakeholders and communities. In is envisaged that the trail will benefit the localcommunity and wider destination in a number of ways such as creating addi...
How would have the concept of hosting strangers in your house or staying with an unknown family on a vacation sounded a decade back? Hardly anyone would have been comfortable with such a concept. But we have seen people getting comfortable with staying in homestays, using Uber, sharing office spaces, and using many such peer-to-peer platforms. Thes...
On May 7th, 2020 we held a Virtual Ecoclub Member Meeting to discuss 'Pandemic Adaptation Strategies for Ecotourism'. Our aim was to brief each other on local conditions and compare notes on what can be done during and in the aftermath of the pandemic so as to protect and support our businesses, our communities and Ecotourism. Due to the pandemic lockdown millions of tourism employees, professionals and small business-owners have suddenly been left unemployed or precariously employed by near bankrupt businesses. If international tourism recovers too slowly, many of them will need green (re)training and new green jobs and opportunities outside tourism. The pandemic itself can only be stopped if a cure is found, if the virus mutates into a less potent form (there are some indications in late May 2020) or if there is mass immunity. It is as if a huge earthquake has taken place (the disease) and we are now waiting for the tsunami (the economic impact). Depending on how long it will last and if there is a second wave in late 2020, it will either be a case of Darwinian 'survival of the fittest' (quickest, smartest, more flexible) for communities, employees and businesses, or a more...
