Dear Keith,
No spam intended. Just wanted to introduce the project to the Green Team in the flow of your discussion, rather than introducing the project on its own without participating in your forum too. As you see, it was only the Green Team, not anywhere else that I made my introduction.
Continuing in the concept of discussion, the National Geographic Geotourism Challenge site is addressing similar issues as this forum. I think it (especially the discussions there) would be of interest to your readers. The concept there is that “geotourism” expands the concept of ecotourism because culturally based tourism in a city could also be included. Obviously “ecotourism” has gained acceptance with the larger community, so it will be interesting to see whether geotourism or “sustainable tourism,” as this forum has previously suggested, will be the next term adopted for general use.
I wouldn’t call our project a resort, just yet. We’re hoping for El Fuego del Sol to be a place to create an eco-community, not another resort that calls itself “eco” while actually causing more harm than good. We are interested in any suggestions as to how to be successful at that. We are totally open-source. Which is why I created the separate chat thread along with a Green Team intro.
Thanks,
Kevin A
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