Paddle Asia, Phuket offers small group sea kayaking, jungle survival, bushcraft, and hiking activities for adventurers who want a more intimate experience with nature. Our focus is to avoid seeing other tourists even in Phang Nga Bay.
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Every effort must be made to lessen damage or alterations to the indigenous ecosystems and cultures.
All tour activities have some impact on the environment and the culture where they operate. Ecotourism programs should provide benefits to the local community, but they should mainly focus on the environment. In doing so, the community will yield returns as a result of the sustainability of such tours.
Traditionally, tangential businesses benefit from tours to any given area. Transportation and food services are two examples. Both of these, however, are usually the direct opposites of eco-tourism. Transportation services historically are run on fossil fuels. However, the impact can be minimized by strict emission standards. This is less likely to happen in less developed countries.
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Conservation progress stresses the need for broadly distributed local benefits as incentives for conservation. Without this, the local community may continue to support activities that produce unsustainable activities.
Principles of the definition of Ecotourism
Beware of the mass tourism operators speaking the language of sustainable eco-tourism. Some of them have even received international awards for their ability to fill out applications with flowery verse.
Moo, my wife, does some guiding as well. Her main task is to interface with all the boatmen, bungalow owners, and anyone else we come in contact with. Her method for getting things done and for getting things changed is to make friends first... then wiggle her way into getting what is needed.
This works for food and rooms, but more importantly for getting trash picked up and other environmentally damaging items corrected. She is invaluable.
So, we satisfy the criteria for having 'locals' employed. They run trips without me many times. I go on certain trips, but not all of them. I trust the guide's skills and judgment implicitly. They are all very safety conscious.
Paddle Asia is a small company with a family atmosphere. I am the only foreigner in the company.
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Being life-long naturalists and animal lovers, Paddle Asia’s foundation is built on the principle of putting nature first. It is true that one could argue that just visiting natural areas, to some degree has a negative impact. This can’t be denied. However, by showing our guests the wonders and beauty of these destinations, we are generating awareness. This awareness will hopefully, in turn, spawn a desire among our guests to help preserve these few remaining natural wonders.
We run a lot of school trips, especially international school groups. In fact, International School Programs are a huge part of our business. We combine community service projects with our school group programs. Kids are the future. International school students are the most likely to be the movers and the shakers of tomorrow. They need to experience something other than shopping malls. They need to know that there is more to life than material gain. We have changed the lives of many youngsters. This is what Paddle Asia is all about.
Environmental Education and Interpretation
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Personal development and involvement
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Community Service Involvement
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Paddle Asia has always been focused on building a strong affiliation with the local community. We have succeeded.
We certainly don’t think that we have done all that we can do to further ourselves as one of Southern Thailand’s leading eco-tour operators.
If you would like to give us some input as to what you feel is important for a genuine eco-tour operator, we would love to hear from you.
For more information, please feel free to contact us."
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Recent guest review, "Paddle Asia understand the importance of conservation and is one of the pioneering ecotourism companies in the country. On a day trip to Phang Nga Bay on the company of our great guides, Mr. Run and BB, we experienced an amazing adventure through the most stunning views that Thailand can offer. On a last note, this is how tourists should experience Thai wilderness. You’ll see nature as it supposed to be. Untouched."
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Paddle Asia was developed as a result of seeing what was happening in the various existing kayaking companies in Phuket and Krabi. Our company is the result of realizing that there was a definite important niche that needed to be filled: small group tours with high-quality gear and highly trained guides.
Besides offering high-quality tours to our guests, our goal is an attempt to show the government and other tour operators that they do not have to compromise their environmental ethics in order to have a viable business. Another goal is to provide our Thai staff with personal growth opportunities with the full understanding that the protection of Thailand's remaining natural wonders in paramount for the future of the Kingdom.
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Principles of the definition of Ecotourism
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Moo, my wife, does some guiding as well. Her main task is to interface with all the boatmen, bungalow owners, and anyone else we come in contact with. Her method for getting things done and for getting things changed is to make friends first... then wiggle her way into getting what is needed.
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Paddle Asia is a small company with a family atmosphere. I am the only foreigner in the company.
Benefits of Ecotourism
Real eco-tour operators are concerned and do everything in their power to make sure that their tours don’t have a negative impact on the environment and the local culture.
Being life-long naturalists and animal lovers, Paddle Asia’s foundation is built on the principle of putting nature first. It is true that one could argue that just visiting natural areas, to some degree has a negative impact. This can’t be denied. However, by showing our guests the wonders and beauty of these destinations, we are generating awareness. This awareness will hopefully, in turn, spawn a desire among our guests to help preserve these few remaining natural wonders.
We run a lot of school trips, especially international school groups. In fact, International School Programs are a huge part of our business. We combine community service projects with our school group programs. Kids are the future. International school students are the most likely to be the movers and the shakers of tomorrow. They need to experience something other than shopping malls. They need to know that there is more to life than material gain. We have changed the lives of many youngsters. This is what Paddle Asia is all about.
Environmental Education and Interpretation
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Personal development and involvement
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Community Service Involvement
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