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Awareness Creation & Information Sharing Program

This is achieved through publications and meetings, including quarterly newsletters, monthly e-letters, regional workshops and a biennial national conference. It is also achieved through the website and the resource centre.

Community Programs

Entails offering community mobilization, advisory, training and promotion services to community based, owned and/or managed tourism enterprises. The aim is to integrate communities and community-based tourism into mainstream tourism in Kenya...

Leadership & Mentorship Program

Provide EK members with an opportunity to gain experience nurture their skills and get enlightened about the fundamentals and practices of ecotourism. The program blends the academic and professional, theoretical and practical aspects of ecotourism while addressing the interests of participants...

Research & Consultancy Program

The focus is on ecotourism and sustainable tourism, best practices, policy development and tourism planning and management. We also undertake social evaluation of programmes and review EIAs.

Standards & Best Practices Program

This is EK’s flagship program and is the only one of its kind in the East African region. This EK initiative has been used to inform other international tourism ecorating schemes including the UNEP Currently we have 86 eco-rated facilities– 23 Gold, 43 Silver and 20 Bronze.