Kenya Beach club holiday
How this holiday makes a difference
Environment
Green - Doing Now
The majority of our activities programmes are based on wind, pedal or muscle power, providing enough energy to satisfy most thrill-seeking speed-freaks in the most environmentally benign way we know how. We can also cater for our more sedate guests, however! We no longer use anti-fouling on our day boats and where possible we use 4-stroke outboard engines on our powerboats to reduce noise, fuel consumption and emissions. We also:
- Ask guests to crush water bottles.
- Collect spare drinking water left in water bottles, to give to locals to drink rather than tap water.
- Encourage guests to minimise water usage
- Use less fuel by providing kayak safety cover for slower vessels staying in one area.
- Litter sweep the whole beach regularly
- We move the Sea Urchins off the reef – good for the urchins and good for the reef!
- We advise guests not to buy coral etc. for souvenirs
Green - Planned for 2010 - Things we are encouraging the hotel to do
- Stop turning on air conditioning and lights at 15.00 when it’s not dark until 18.30
- Cut down on towel washing both in the rooms and around the pool and beach
Community
90% of our shore-based accommodation is based in small locally owned hotels, or small own-managed hotels, in preference to the larger chains. In both our locally owned and our own-managed properties local people are employed and training and promotion opportunities are provided where appropriate.
By avoiding fully-inclusive board arrangements and by recommendations in our literature and in briefings, we encourage our guests to eat out where possible to enhance their holiday experience and boost the local economies. Where we manage accommodation units all food and drink is sourced locally where possible.
Getting it Pegged: Kenya is a brand new resort and our team wasted no time in scouting around to see how they could make a difference locally. After some research and fully supported by our guests, the team have come up with the following PEG (People, Environment, Green) policy:
People - Doing Now
- We have employed and are training 6 local staff with view to increasing this number and cutting down on imported staff.
- Take guests on walking and biking tours of the local villages to help raise awareness of local issues
- Weekly fundraising race to raise money to help local children attend school by buying uniforms, books, stationary, etc.
People - Planned for 2010
- Teach local children’s clubs to sail/windsurf.
- Teach local people to swim.
- Teach some local fishermen sailing theory eg rules of the road, sea safety, in order to create a safer sailing environment
for all.
Economy - Doing Now
- Local craft market comes to the hotel to sell their wares.
- We encourage guests to buy from the local markets rather than souvenir shops which are not locally owned.
- The Hotel currently buys all fruit and vegetables from local farmers.
- Engaging with local traders to find out ways they feel we can help them. Out of this came the opportunity to ask them to
stop putting up the prices unnecessarily to the hotel so that we can use them to buy fish and chicken locally again.
- Hotel buys eggs from local deaf school to help them raise money to support the children of the school.
Economy - Planned for 2010
- Give plastic, disposable, water bottles to local people in need to take to the recycle centre. The centre pays a small
amount for each bottle, thus helping the local people too.
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