Kerala holiday, Malabar Adventure
How Kerala holiday, Malabar Adventure makes a difference
Environment
This trip also focuses on forest people’s role as care takers of forest, its resources and wildlife and by doing so also assures them a decent livelihood with dignity. Sustainable income through responsible tourism ensures increasing interest amongst local community members, which in turn supports conservation of wildlife and forest resources.
On behalf of every single traveller who visits the region, we plant sapling(s) to promote traveller's forest, which is a community owned eco-restoration project.
Community
This holiday helps in a variety ways, mainly relating to helping back local people in terms of their traditions, cultures and livelihoods. Once practiced in several places in Kerala and especially on the banks of River Nila, featured art forms and rituals are no longer financially viable for people who practice it as there are less and less people who are showing interest in these rituals. This has affected the way of life of these ritualistic performers and they have been looking for other jobs based on daily wages. The Responsible tourism initiative has helped some of the community members to continue their lifestyle and earn from what they know for many generations. The boats we travel in were traditionally used for transporting fine sand and coconut husks to different locations. By hiring these boats we are giving them an alternative source of income.
Pottery and Bell metal workshops gives insight into the resilience of the artisans and how our holidays help them to make supplementary source of income. Promotion of such initatives have created new found interest amongst locals and new orders are regularly received by workers.
The traditional home stays that are part of the holiday accommodations were introduced as part of heritage revival and is providing a source of income for locals to maintain their age-old architectural marvels.
Kerala holiday, Malabar Adventure
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