All about Eco accommodation

Eco-tourism has helped countries like Brazil and Costa Rica, where the main goal is to educate people about living in harmony with nature and sources say. This is a new way of life and even on vacation! Many research and development has gone into eco-tourism and it will be adopted by countries worldwide.

It compels you to think and be more responsible towards Mother Nature. With Eco tourism we have eco hotels, eco lodges and many other types of eco accommodation.Eco Accommodation is used to describe any hotel or eco lodge that helps the environment by making significant structural changes in its day- to- day working. Here you live off the earth, for the earth. You will find many eco accommodations in Australia that are certified by The International Ecotourism Society. An eco accommodation must be able to sustain in ordinance with eth the environment and be dependent of its natural environs. It has to be able to walk the talk and prove that is can make or will make significant efforts for natural conservation. Educating staff and even tourists becomes a very important part of eco tourism; you have to spread the word. The locales have to be involved and there should be a stipulation for economic return.

There are basic ground rules for eco hotels or lodges; they are:

• No smoking is allowed on the premises

• Use of solar or wind energy for generation of power

• Encouraging recycling by placing recycling bins in the rooms and the main lobby

• Using totally organic soaps, detergents and other cleaning agents

• Only cotton, and non-synthetic material is allowed for linen; that includes sheets, beds and towels

• Provisions have to be made to reduce waste, like encouraging common amenities

• Using energy saving lighting all over the premises

• Making amenities for natural light as far as possible

• Using only hybrids for airport pick up and drop off

• Serve food that is organic and locally grown

• Curbing or negating the use of plastic

• Reusing kitchen and bathroom water of on the garden