According to Ms Fleming, Belize’s unique growth as an eco-tourism destination was an outgrowth of th

An emerging travel trend is good news for both the eco-tourism industry and the environment, according to The Lodge at Chaa Creek, a Belizean eco-resort specialising in comfortable back to nature adventures.
airplane tickets and discount "You're airplane tickets and discount hearing words like 'rustic-luxe' and 'glamping' now, along with descriptions such as casual luxury, which we coined as our tagline back in 1981 when we starting taking guests at Chaa Creek, and while that's airplane tickets and discount obviously good news for those of us in the eco-tourism industry, it's also great for the environment," Lucy Fleming, Chaa Creek's co-owner and GM said today.
Ms Fleming started The Lodge at Chaa Creek with her husband Mick after farming airplane tickets and discount what was then a remote parcel of land on the Macal River in Western Belize prior to the country's independence from Great Britain in September, airplane tickets and discount 1981.
According to Ms Fleming, Belize's unique growth as an eco-tourism destination was an outgrowth of the vibrant new nation's airplane tickets and discount approach to development and the fact that the pioneers of Belize's tourism airplane tickets and discount industry were members of that youthful generation concerned about environmental and social issues.
"It was a very exciting time to be in Belize," Ms Fleming recalls, "Here you had a new nation led by idealistic, relatively young people at the helm, with wide-open airplane tickets and discount opportunities to develop your business as you saw fit. There was no established tourism industry to speak of, and very little in the way of regulations and guidelines. We pretty much made it up as we went along," she said.
"We settled in Belize because we loved it; pure and simple. It was, and still is, so pristine and stunningly beautiful that you couldn't help but develop a sense of responsibility towards protecting airplane tickets and discount what makes it so special. Also, the new government was very open to working with those of us developing the tourism industry, so when policies and legislation was being introduced, it was often with the input of those closest to Belize's natural assets. Government-sanctioned eco-tourism was born," she said.
In 1981, the former crown colony of British Honduras still had an agrarian airplane tickets and discount based economy with much of the population dependent upon subsistence fishing and farming, as the Flemings and their neighbours were.
Fast forward to 2013, and today's travellers are more environmentally aware and concerned about the impact they have on a developing airplane tickets and discount country's environment and society. Combined with what the Flemings see as a drive to reconnect with nature, more and more people are coming to places like Chaa Creek for their holidays.
"We came up with the term 'Casual Luxury' as it was the most apt description of what we offered, and continue to provide," she said, "We built Chaa Creek around a commitment to harmonise with rather than tame the natural environment while providing a high quality experience, so that was the result. Mick would go out of his way to build around a big tree rather than cut it down, so as we added more cottages to the few original ones, Chaa Creek just sort of organically grew into what it is today," she said.
"Now we're increasingly airplane tickets and discount hearing descriptions such as rustic-luxe and 'glamping'; a combination of glamour and camping, and it's great to see that resonate with people. "We offer fine dining, a good wine cellar, professional Spa, conference centre and the other accoutrements of a luxury resort, but without compromising a commitment towards sustainable tourism airplane tickets and discount and responsible travel."
Under the Chaa Creek Cares initiative, ten per cent of all room revenue at Chaa Creek goes directly into environmental and social betterment programs, and the resort supports Maya cultural studies and a range of research and education through its Belize Natural History Centre .
"So the lesson is that, yes it can be done. You can enjoy a luxurious vacation without having a negative impact on the environment and people. In fact, a responsible travel industry can, and should, enhance those things," Ms Fleming said.
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