Heritage Education Network Belize & Ecomadic for Ethical Tourism

We are happy to announce our collaboration with Ecomadic, a travel platform that connects sustainably-minded travellers with responsible businesses. They feature local and small eco-accommodations, socially responsible eateries, social enterprise shops, and ethical experiences.

Why Tourism?

Responsible and heritage tourism is becoming a tool for researchers to safeguard culture and nature sustainably.

Many of the ongoing issues in Archaeology and heritage management are related to excluding adjacent communities, stakeholders and the lack of community engagement in tourism. These are socio-economic and heritage management issues that sometimes tourism can help us mitigate.

Responsible tourism can be the agent of change towards a sustainable future. This is why Heritage Education Network Belize views collaboration between academic disciplines and tourism businesses as a gateway to achieving economic, cultural and ecological sustainability.

About our Collaboration with Ecomadic

Heritage Education Network Belize has been working with Ecomadic to create a Belizean travel directory that includes ethical travel experiences, eco-accommodations, socially responsible eateries and more!

We felt the need to showcase small cultural and indigenous or female-owned businesses that have great potential.

As a first step, we have collected “10 Local Experiences in Belize You Won’t Find in the Guidebooks”. However, there is more to come! In the meantime, feel free to browse the Ecomadic website to get all the info about these 10 businesses we chose!