Castaway Island, Fiji (FCI)
FCI Hosts Care for Ocean, Engage Coral Kids Club on World Tourism Day
BY KOLINIO VULAONO – World Tourism Day served as an opportunity to educate people about the benefits and challenges of tourism and to raise awareness about the importance of sustainable tourism practices.
Castaway celebrated World Tourism Day by taking part in underwater clean-up activity and Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (COTs) removal. A total of 10kg of waste was collected with five COTs. In addition, thirteen excited kids from the Coral Kids Club took the time out to harvest 16kg of cabbage from the resort veggie garden and donated it to the Kitchen Department.
The resort would like to thank all the hosts that took part and supported the celebration.
Hawai’i Vacation Condos by OUTRIGGER (HVC)
HVC VP Gives Back with Hawai’i Food Bank Partners
On October 9, 2024, Hawai’i Vacation Condos by OUTRIGGER Vice President Carly Clement joined forces with fellow Hawai’i Lodging and Tourism Association (HLTA) members to sort and inspect two pallets of fresh fruits and vegetables for Hawaii Food Bank’s food partner agencies to distribute to those in need. Carly, who is HLTA’s O‘ahu Chapter Chairperson, is relentless in her pursuit of helping those in need.
OUTRIGGER Fiji Beach Resort (FOR)
Introducing Rise Beyond the Reef Compostable Cups
BY ASHNEEL CHAND – FOR switched to using PortionPaks biodegradable coffee cups due to its partnership with Rise beyond the Reef coffee cups to which all revenue generated from these cups go towards supporting its various community-based projects. The cups are biodegradable, environmentally friendly and they align with our sustainability goals. We received an update from Portion Pak that our Q1 purchases helped raise FJ$1000, which has been donated directly to Kioa Island Primary school (a small island community situated between Vanua Levu and Taveuni). Rise beyond the Reef works with women weavers in this village, hence they wanted to complement this and send the Q1 royalties to this primary school.