LooLa Adventure Resort
| Loola Adventure Resort | |
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  Location in Bintan | |
| General information | |
| Location | Bintan, Riau Islands, Indonesia |
Loola Adventure Resort is a resort in Bintan, Indonesia. Part of the Eco tourism scheme which has developed from Singapore nationals in Bintan, it is primarily designed for active families and youth groups, and for company trips (interested team-bonding and/or in seeing sustainable tourism at work). There is a mix of accommodation, ranging from luxury eco villas to rustic chalets built above the sea to dormitories for youth groups. The resort has a wide range of eco friendly natural activities such as tree climbing and rock-wall climbing, ziplines and skywalks, (dragon)kayak and sailing, archery, nature treks and eco tours, futsal, basketball and beach volleyball. It further encourages its guests to partake in community work (such as building roads, building waste water gardens at local homes, or do other village homes upgrades orhelp with mosquito net distributions, and so on)
The resort was crowned World # 1 at the Responsible Tourism Awards in London, Nov 2015, in two categories: World's best beach destination, and Overall Winner.
Other than this, LooLa has received many other sustainability awards and media coverage for its efforts to create and maintain a sustainable tourism business.
The primary reasons for receiving the WRT awards are the empowerment of the local staff (they can run their own business on site) and the win-win engagement of LooLa's guests to help with community projects, and the fact that LooLa's solutions are innovative, replicable, and based on evidence.
But LooLa has also received accolades for its willingness to act as a testbed for economical and locally executable eco solutions, such as a first-in-the-world solar cooling system, and for LooLa's efforts to promote cheap and efficient waste water garden systems first developed by UNICEF and the Red Cross and others.
