About Eco Tropical Resorts

Eco Tropical Resorts was developed by Lise Tyrrell in 2002 while living in Mexico with her young son. Lise considers herself a citizen of the world because of growing up in different countries, including West Africa. Furthermore, her motto is “one world, one people”.

My travels as an adult and my different experiences led me to some realizations. From touristy Cancun, Mexico to a Costa Rica Eco-lodge in the middle of nowhere. Because of these experiences, both as a child and as an adult, I wanted to do something about preserving our fragile environment. These experiences led to the creation of Eco Tropical Resorts. The main goal of this website is helping to preserve nature and the environment for future generations is.

I use a sustainable business model. So I don’t charge any fees until a hotel or tour is making enough on their listing to easily cover the fee. Help support Eco Tropical Resorts.

The Online Eco Rating Exam

A measuring tool is needed to rate how a hotel or lodging establishment rates how they interact with the environment. The Online Eco Rating Exam was created to measure this. Myself and like minded people created the Eco Rating. Hotel owners who use the Online Eco Rating show visitors what actions they use to promote sustainability. More hotel owners can prove their best practices by using this inexpensive alternative.

Now our readers can now take a stand on preserving the earth’s resources when they travel.

The Eco Rating has 5 areas of importance that we came up with when developing it. These areas include using alternative energy, which is renewable. Recycling, to preserve resources and not create waste. Water conservation, a lot of the world doesn’t have enough. Community involvement, sustainability includes the local people. Lastly, conservation of flora and fauna to balance the ecology of the area and preserve it.

News articles about harmful things being done in the name of ecotourism are appearing. We have been posting about the Maasai in Tanzania on Eco Tropical Resort’s Facebook page. The Maasai Mara are being ousted from their sustainable subsistence grazing lands in the name of Ecotourism. Eco Tropical Resorts is leaning towards just calling what is promoted Sustainable and veering away from the term ecotourism because of this. We use Sustainable to mean “using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged”. That is what we are working for.

Eco Tropical Resorts

The original focus of Eco Tropical Resorts was hotels in the Tropics. The directory is slowly expanding to include the rest of the planet, as well as tour companies. Volunteer tourism is another area that is becoming popular. We have decided to include that as well. Eco Tropical Resorts hopes readers will come back as we add more countries and expand.

Wild Futures is one of the sustainable causes we support. Wild Futures support primate conservation on an international level. These causes need our support to make life better! Our Directory lists all Non Profits and NGO’s for free.

The Orangutan Project is another cause that we/I support and donate to. These are our cousins and we must protect them and their diminishing habitat.

Lise lives in Catalina (Tucson), AZ in the US and can be reached at 916-838-1525. Lise’s yard was recently visited by a Desert Tortoise, see image below. Endangered in California and Nevada, but not in Arizona.