One benchmark is the Chumbe Island Coral Park in Zanzibar, East Africa. Being a nature conservation project, the Marine Park won a lot of international awards for nature conservation and socially responsible tourism. Chumbe Island, one of about 130 eco-lodges worldwide, consists of a handful of eco-bungalows, surprising and charming, built as eco-architecture using local materials. Due to
their traditional construction the eco-lodges don’t need any air conditioning – the construction is oriented towards the predominant wind directions.