The GreenTour Kenya Project continues to maintain a sharp focus towards transforming Kenya’s tourism industry to sustainability while building the capacities of young tourism professionals. In Mid-May, the project was joined by two young energetic, self-motivated and passionate responsible tourism enthusiasts. The two have in the past engaged with Ecotourism Kenya through its Leadership & […]
Starting April 2021, the GreenTour Kenya Project rolled out a series of online sustainability coaching and training sessions to support Kenya’s tour operators to attain the Partner status. This is in line with the project’s main objective, “to replicate tourism industry sustainability best practices into the Kenyan and wider African tourism supply chain through an […]
Sunworld Safaris was established in 1997 and is run by Gabriele Nowak the CEO and Davinder S. Choda the Managing Director. The company runs professionally customized safaris to suit its clients’ needs in all aspects. The fundamental core of the company’s activity is people & wildlife as well as the protection of our forests, oceans […]
It is evident that the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic are continuing to be felt by all stakeholders within the tourism industry until now. In such unprecedented times, each player in the industry is encouraged to take a positively impacting role to enhance the industry’s resilience and preparedness for recovery. The GreenTour project objectively ensured […]
THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK COULD BE A BLESSING IN DISGUISE FOR YOUR TOURISM BUSINESS As a matter of fact, tourism industry is both the most vulnerable and in some way the least prepared to manage the risks of disease outbreaks. Guess what, after this wind passes, everyone will want to step out and reconnect with nature […]
What is Community-Based Tourism? It is a unique kind of tourism that is driven by local communities and mostly happens in rural areas where a large proportion of nature remains unspoiled and culture is highly preserved. In Community Based Tourism (CBT), the locals have a substantial share in ownership, control and or management […]
It takes numerous days of commitment to celebrate an overnight success. Far and beyond the commitment, it requires a warrior to trust in the process. Certification is a popular topic in tourism and sustainability. It can be described as the process of assuring the industry and consumers of the compliance of a company to […]
Mau Safaris is an early adopter of sustainability in many ways. First, they are among the pioneer companies to host a sustainability ambassador to support their engagement with Travelife. The company is also actively engaged with the Green Tour Project through being part of the selected companies in export coaching. Finally, and most importantly, […]
Best practices in responsible tourism are the key to a sustainable Kenyan tourism industry. Several tour companies in Kenya are gearing towards being sustainable, through engaging with Travelife. With the support of Ecotourism Kenya, tour operators are trained and coached on ways that they can embrace sustainable practices in their companies, for example issues on […]
Integrating sustainability is critical to the future of the tourism industry. Sustainability in this sense refers to care for the environment, support of the local communities, fairness to employees and of course making and saving money! The tourists themselves are also changing their perceptions and attitudes by demanding more sustainable products, travel agents and destinations. […]
