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surama ecolodge wins sustainable tourism awards
Surama Ecolodge wins Sustainable Tourism Awards
Community run Surama Eco Lodge in the interior of Guyana has, this month, won the Caribbean Tourism Organisation’s Excellence Sustainable Tourism Award. The jury made up of international experts said that the lodge “uses tourism as an anti-poverty/development tool to encourage the continuing refinement of products to ensure enhanced environmental conservation and added revenue generation.”
Surama Eco Lodge is locally run by the Makushi people and provides direct or indirect employment to 70 of the 290 villagers. Revenue generated by tourism is now 60% of the community’s income and the number of local men having to leave the village to work in mines or in the timber industry elsewhere in Guyana has significantly dropped.
The Lodge has also been named as one of S. America’s top hotels by National Geographic Traveler’s Magazine which examined the authenticity and sustainability of Hotels throughout the continent.
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