Gracie Geikie on Ecotourism in Malaysian Borneo
Published 21/07/2016
For today's interview, we travel to Malaysian Borneo, where the experienced tourism facilitator and hospitality advisor Gracie Geikie has made...
Poverty and unemployment can drive people to extreme lengths, to meet basic needs. Sustainable tourism companies see this as an opportunity to help out by providing productive employment and training. By employing locals, social enterprises embrace people from impoverished communities and villagers and offer them economic opportunities which help to ensure the conservation of habitat and biodiversity.