Julie Newcombe, Marketing Coordinator with Amakhala, tells us - in this next item in our series on Fair Trade in Tourism in South Africa - what makes the Bush Lodge on Amakhala FTTSA compliant.

Bush Lodge & Reed Valley Inn

• We source and train up local staff in the trade to help develop their personal goals and give them the opportunity in a career in the hospitality industry.

 

• All staff have training twice a month to ensure that the staff continue to grow as employees. 60% the staff working at Reed Valley are 5th generation to work on this property.

 

• The Lodge was built on wooden stilts to reduce the carbon foot print.

 

• All our products, including cleaning chemicals and guest amenities are eco-friendly and bio-degradable.

 

• All of our waste products between the two lodges are recycled.

 

• All of our suppliers are from the local community and we support small enterprises.

 

• We have a purchasing policy of using small local suppliers as much as possible.

 

• We source as many staff as possible from our farms and surrounding community and train/promote them into the hospitality sector using our lodge.

 

• We recycle all waste products.

 

• The lodge was built in such a way to minimize disturbance of natural vegetation.
  

 

 

Addo Accommodation

 

 

 

For safari lodge-style accommodation in the heart of the Eastern Cape's elephant country at Addo Elephant Park, have a look at the Bush Lodge at Amakhala webpage on our site, and contact Portfolio to make a booking.