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Jungle Bay Resort and Spa is a leading ‘green’ tourism destination on Dominica.   The founders Samuel and Glenda Raphael demonstrate that you can create a sustainable tourism business which focuses on ‘environmental’, ‘social’ and ‘economic’ sustainability.

Environment
“Jungle Bay Resort and Spa was built and is operated in alignment with international sustainable tourism guidelines. As an alternative to traditional Caribbean tourism, the focus is on enjoyable nature-based activities and wellness of guests with quality service, guided by the principles as set by The International Ecotourism Society.”

 Social
“Jungle Bay has established an on-site education program for staff to encourage a healthy growth academically in tourism. In August 2005, Jungle Bay committed to financing high school tuition fees for all students in the Carib Territory, the Caribbean’s last remaining indigenous people… Last year the jungle bay family (owners, staff & guests) generously contributed $53,000 ec dollars as a seed grant to begin the development of a community operated facility for indigent children with severe disabilities from Dominica’s southeast. We recently broke ground and are completing the foundation of the new House of Hope.”

Economic
“Jungle Bay employs 59 full-time employees, which encourages capacity building and economic growth of the immediate surrounding communities. With the help of our on-site education and training programs, 7 local staff members have been promoted to middle management positions. Jungle Bay also employs local artisans for various ongoing projects around the resort…In January 2006, Jungle Bay Resort and Spa launched the Southeast Entrepreneur Loan Fund (SELF), which allows 10-15 local entrepreneurs to borrow up to $12,000 EC for business activities such as organic produce, seafood, local arts/ crafts production and guiding of cultural tours and hikes that can contribute to the Jungle Bay services.”

Beau Rive is located on the beautiful island of Dominica, between the villages of Castle Bruce and Sineku and looks out over the Atlantic.   Beau Rive is a small luxury hotel which offers guests a choice of eight double rooms with views over the ocean.

At Beau Rive:

• Water is heated via solar power

• The water pump is powered by solar power
• In the future they hope to generate some of their lighting using solar energy
• They use fresh, seasonal ingredients and locally made, natural soaps.
• They have planted 170 fruit and flowering trees

Find out more about Beau Rive.

The Rosalie Forest Eco Lodge is directly adjacent to the 3 Rivers Eco Lodge. Actually it is where the tree houses and Carib cabins are located which were part of 3 Rivers.

The new lodge is even more eco friendly than 3 Rivers, with all buildings built with 100% renewable materials. The lodge is reached ONLY after a 15 minute steep hike deep into the Rosalie rainforest. The accommodations are a range of rustically comfortable cabins and tree houses, as well as full camping and dormitory facilities.

There is a jungle restaurant serving local cuisine and fresh local juices, and a communal kitchen and bathroom facilities for use by all guests.

The Rosalie Forest Eco Lodge offers the same enormous range of nature, adventure and community based eco tourism activities, as well as a choice of workshops and classes in most forms of renewable energy.
All staff are employed from the 3 surrounding villages, and all electricity is made from a combination of renewable energy sources.

For a real sustainable vacation, try the all new Rosalie Forest eco Lodge Jungle Experience.

The Tamarind Tree Hotel & Restaurant is located in the center of Dominica’s west coast on top of a 100-foot cliff, offering a beautiful view over the Caribbean Sea, the Bay of Salisbury and Morne Diablotin.

In terms of the environment the Tamarind Tree Hotel & Restaurant:

• Uses rainwater to flush the toilets and irrigate the garden.
• The water is heated with solar energy.
• Low energy consumption light bulbs are used everywhere.
• The waste is separated and recycled.
• As many goods as possible are purchased locally, where available directly from the producer, manufacturer, grower, breeder.

The Tamarind Tree Hotel & Restaurant is a Green Globe 21 2005 Certified / 2006 Certified / 2007 Benchmarked Accommodation. You can read more on the here (opens as a PDF).

Located in a natural paradise 3 Rivers Eco Lodge in Dominica offers guests a range of accommodation from self catering cottages through to tree top houses. Electricity is generated from solar panels, wind turbines and a micro hydro electricity system! They are Green Globe certified. 3 Rivers Eco Lodge is owned and managed by Jem Winston.

Alongside the eco accommodation Jem and his team run a number of environmental courses and workshops.

To find out more please visit 3 River Eco Lodge’s website.