A ‘Guilt-Free Green Luxury Resort’ for the ‘Grown-up Backpacker’?

Travel Blog  •  Joanna Kakissis  •  01.21.09 | 11:07 AM ET

I’m guessing you have to be a very rich grown-up backpacker to buy a place at the Cacao Pearl, Palawan, billed as the first non-profit, luxury eco-resort community to devote all of its revenue to environmental protection and social improvement. Cacao Resorts is set to build the resort on an 124-acre private island in the Calamianes archipelago on the northern end of the Palawan Biosphere Reserve in the Philippines. Antonio Calvo, a former film art director who worked on “Love Actually” and the horrifically acted “Alexander,” designed the five-star resort, which will have chic, zero-carbon homes, a spa and organic food amid rain forests, coconut trees and beaches.

I hope they will let me visit if I am ever rich and quietly famous.

Tags: Eco Travel, Islands, Luxury Travel, Outdoors, Asia, Philippines, News and Briefs

Joanna Kakissis's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, among other publications. A contributor to the World Hum blog, she's currently a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder.


1 Comment for A ‘Guilt-Free Green Luxury Resort’ for the ‘Grown-up Backpacker’?

Alex 01.22.09 | 8:18 PM ET

I wonder if this is going to convince people who believe that “ecotourism” is dead that maybe luxury eco resorts and and environmental awareness can go together. ecoluxury?

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