ECO TOURISM EFFORTS
Community Initiatives – We’ve expanded the amount of tours we offer guests through community-based tourism, encouraging and consulting with our tourism partners to include and instigate village based handcraft workshops, canoe tours, and cooking lessons. This gives local families a chance to benefit from tourism, where otherwise they would not.
Community Collaborations – To help reduce the use of mass-market products, we do what we can to source local products and foods. One example is Fet’s organic eggs – We recently offered a micro-loan and continue to work with Fet and his wife Aeh, a local family, to raise chickens free of steroids, antibiotics, and other types of chemicals. They can now supply the community and Our Jungle House’s restaurant with fresh organic eggs.
Local Guide Support – We recently finished conducting a two-month guide training program that improves English skills, wildlife knowledge, and safety procedures of local guides, so that they have the ability to pass on their local knowledge of Khao Sok’s natural wonders.