Winner at African Travel Week Travel & Tourism Awards #WTMA20

!Xaus Lodge is the winner of the Most Compelling Sustainability Story for the WTM Africa Awards 2020 inaugural African Travel Week Travel & Tourism Awards. Here's the nomination that was submitted: The International Dark Sky Certification campaign led and developed by !Xaus Lodge for the !Ae !Hai Kalahari Heritage Park resulted in the Park’s certification [...]

By |May 11th, 2020|Awards & Accreditations, Responsible Tourism|Comments Off on Winner at African Travel Week Travel & Tourism Awards #WTMA20

!Xaus Lodge receives Silver at the World Responsible Tourism Awards 2016

We are tremendously honored to have received a Silver Award in the Best for Poverty Reduction and Inclusion category of the World Responsible Tourism Awards 2016. As one of the longest standing categories of the World Responsible Tourism Awards, this year the judges were looking for travel providers that are not only using memorable holiday experiences to [...]

By |November 8th, 2016|Awards & Accreditations, Responsible Tourism|Comments Off on !Xaus Lodge receives Silver at the World Responsible Tourism Awards 2016

!Xaus Lodge takes Gold at the African Responsible Tourism Awards 2016

!Xaus Lodge has received a Gold Award in the Best for Poverty Reduction category at the African Responsible Tourism Awards 2016 in Cape Town. The special ceremony took place at World Travel Market Africa, with Heidi van der Watt, managing director of Better Tourism Africa explaining what makes the Award winners the leaders in responsible tourism in Africa: [...]

By |April 10th, 2016|Awards & Accreditations, Responsible Tourism|Comments Off on !Xaus Lodge takes Gold at the African Responsible Tourism Awards 2016

FTTSA certification announced

!Xaus Lodge has been certified as a Fair Trade in Tourism Southern Africa (FTTSA) partner. Announced at the launch of Indaba 2011, this certification comes soon after the November 2010 winning of the Imvelo Awards for Best Practice Economic Impact. “We are now in our 4th years of operation” says management operator CEO Glynn O’Leary [...]

!Xaus Lodge Wins Imvelo Award

!Xaus Lodge won the 2010 Imvelo Awards for Best Practice Economic Impact (independent category) In November 2010. This award is an annual is awarded by FEDHASA (The Federated Hospitality Association of Southern Africa ) to recognise tourism and hospitality businesses that make a real, measurable and sustained contribution to Responsible Tourism.