CONDE NAST
Condé Nast Traveler Magazine
Best Ecotourism Tour Operator Award - July 2000
For years, The Ese´eja community´s only exposure to tourism was the tour boats plying the river in front of their homes in Peru´s southeastern Amazon basin. It wasn´t until 1994, when they were approached by Kurt Holle and Eduardo Nycander, founders of Rainforest Expeditions, that they became directly involved in the business of hosting visitors.
|
|
|
| |
|
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL
Ecotourism Excellence Award - July 2000
Rainforest Expeditions
RAINFOREST EXPEDITIONS founders Eduardo Nycander and Kurt Holle launched the Tambopata Research Center in 1989. Ten years later, they expanded the business by adding Posada Amazonas, a 24 room lodge on the tambopata River about 75 kilometers downstream from the Research Center. These two attractions a biological field station and tourist lodge give visitors unique opportunities to experience a pristine rain forest alongside working scientists. hey are also powerful models of ecotourism that provide local people with new prosperity and incentives to protect their lands.
Learn more about this award at: http://www.conservation.org/xp/frontlines/species/11160501.xml |
|
| |
|
BRITISH GUILD OF TRAVEL WRITERS
Silver Otter - Honorable Mention - November 2001
Posada Amazonas
The Silver Otter Award is given for the best new overseas tourism project which not only has a tourist potential but is also of benefit to the local community. The three finalists are Sher Bagh, a forest-friendly tented camp in Rajasthan, India which is committed to the protection of the tiger; Posada Amazonas, a 24-room lodge in the Amazon rainforest in Peru which donates 60% of its profits to the local community in exchange for preserving the environment; and the Fort Apache Historical Site in Arizona, USA which highlights Native American history and provides employment for the Apache reservation.
For more information link to: http://www.bgtw.org/currentawards2.asp?awardsID=8 |
|
| |
|
UNDP - EQUATOR INITIATIVE FINALIST
Finalist - August 2002
Posada Amazonas
In Peru, a partnership between a private enterprise, Rainforest Expeditions, and local indigenous people provides a model for how ecotourism can be used to solve problems of biodiversity loss and poverty in the developing world.
For more information link to:
http://www.undp.org/equatorinitiative/equatorprize/EquatorPrize2002/equator_prize2002.htm#peru |
|
| |
|
TO DO! 2005
With POSADA AMAZONAS, an eco-tourism concept was realised that one can rarely find elsewhere. A private entrepreneur conjoins with an indigenous rural community to enhance the idea of nature preservation. And this becomes a case in point that shows that personal business interests can be linked to the requirements of a participative tourism model. The original business motive was not primarily material gain but the conservation of the threatened environment.
http://www.todo-contest.org/preistraeger-en/posada01.html |
|
| |
|
RESPONSIBLE TRAVEL
Highly Commended 2006
The First Choice Responsible Tourism Awards are the largest of their kind in the world and are a collaboration between on-line travel agent responsibletravel.com who organise the Awards; UK media partners The Times and Geographical Magazine; supporters Conservation International; and The World Travel Market who host the presentation event. The central tenet of the Awards is that all types of tourism – from niche to mainstream – can and should be operated in a way that respects and benefits destinations and local people.
The Awards are different from other tourism Awards in that winners are nominated by tourists.
http://www.responsibletravel.com/copy/copy102214.htm |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
