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You will stay at the Ulu Ai Longhouse, a community based tourism initiative on the Batang Ai river system involving the Iban people of Nanga Sumpa Longhouse. It has won a whole host of eco-tourism awards such as British Airways ‘Tourism For Tomorrow Award’, a PATA Grand Award for Heritage & Culture, and a Green Globe Commendation from the World Tourism and Travel Council.
Under the leadership of the village headman, the community formed a tourism committee to ensure that the economic benefits of tourism were evenly distributed amongst the various families of the longhouse. The committee was also responsible for ensuring that fair pay was awarded for work done. One of the most lucrative new activities for the community was the provision of a boat service to transfer visitors from the jetty on the Batang Ai lake to the longhouse. To avoid any problems the tourism committee set up a roster so that boat transfers were rotated amongst the various family groups wishing to take part in this operation.
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