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SUSTAINABLE HOSPITALITY GROUPS REVAMP ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES IN INDIA
Food & Health|January 2025
Across India, boutique retreats are working in harmony with the environment while providing support to local communities to ensure all parties prosper.
SUSTAINABLE HOSPITALITY GROUPS REVAMP ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES IN INDIA

Our jeep rolls down a dusty road in Tehla village, flanked by expanses of dry earth peppered with boulders, in clusters, and green shrubs, the cascading blue shadows of northwestern India's Aravalli mountains in the distance.

Women in bright orange and green dupattas herd goats across the rocky terrain. A group of children scamper by, waving and shouting, their words carried off by the wind. Sitting up front in the jeep, Franklin Dolder waves back. "They know me from my visits to their school", he explains.

Dolder and colleague Shubhraj Singh Chouhan are guiding us on a safari in search of leopards and hyenas. The pair are naturalists at Tehla's Utsav Camp Sariska, a boutique wilderness retreat a four-hour drive southwest of the national capital, New Delhi, and adjoining Rajasthan's Sariska Tiger Reserve.

A young man on a bike stops and Dolder and Chouhan introduce him as a wildlife tracker. They chat animatedly about a recent leopard spotting. The Utsav Camp team is well entrenched in the local community through outreach initiatives that have included the dousing of forest fires with their water tankers; the training of the park's guides to make the safari experience more engaging for visitors; and the documenting of wildlife movements. Resort staff also teach surrounding communities how to build enclosures to protect livestock; contact forest officials to safely usher wildlife away from villages; identify venomous snakes; and administer first aid in case of snake bites and other emergencies.

The resort itself is a comfortable sprawl teeming with strutting peacocks and other birdlife, its 12 stone cabins and bungalows shrouded in shrubs and trees.

At Utsav Camp, where no plastic is used, biodegradable waste is composted and solar panels reduce energy consumption.

This story is from the January 2025 edition of Food & Health.

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