Bequia holiday accommodation, St Vincent and the Grenadines

All employees are local residents. We give our staff on the job training and seminars by SVGHT association. We also provide good staff amenities. We support our local schools by providing trophies for sporting and excellent academic performance. We assist with sponsorship for community clean up regularly by providing bins painted by the Handicap children (Sunshine School) garbage bags and gloves. We provide garbage receptacles for public use. We aim at keeping our beaches pristine, therefore we encourage guests and locals to utilise the bins particularly on public holidays when the beaches are frequented by locals. We provide local information to guests through our local Bequia books, Bequia weekly papers and providing island maps. We provide information for our guests in the rooms to educate them on best environmental and responsible tourism practices. The information provided relate to general information about our island, conservation of energy and our composting program.

We strongly encourage composting, by asking the guests to separate garbage by providing green bins in the kitchen and two composting bins on the property. Also posting signs in rooms. We post signs to encourage guests to conserve water. We are fully equipped with energy saving bulbs, solar water heating and post reminders for guests to turn of Air conditioning when leaving the room. We maintain flowering trees by using our compost as fertilizer. We never use pesticides as we are aware of the effects on the environment. We strongly support conservation of forested areas as our property is surrounded by natural forest. We use environmental friendly laundry detergents as much as possible. Our buildings are concrete and wood, they are of Caribbean design and are surrounded by tropical trees and shrubs. We also encourage conservation of water by asking guests to re use towels. All consumable items bought from local shops, e.g toilet tissue, cleaning supplies and detergents. We encourage guests to buy locally produces foods. We have showers and half flush toilets. We don’t recycle except for composting due to the fact we do not generate much apart from paper use for billing. All reservations are done from home on the computer.