Eco
Hotel Uxlabil Atitlán winner of competitiveness award
Eco
hotel Uxlabil Atitlán received in May 2006 a Competitivenes
award from the Guatemalan Government. This ten thousand US dollar
award, plus an equal amount of its own resources, will be utilized
to reinforce quality of services and to implement an international
marketing effort.
With
such award Uxlabil guests have started to benefit with facilities
such as a new private deck and two kayaks. Demostrative avocado,
macadamia, banana and orange plantation are being initiated,
all of them with organic fertilizers. Soon bigger gardens and
a mini ostrich farm will be opened.
This
award compromises even more to Eco hotel Uxlabil Atitlán
in its mission to provide hospitality services in harmony with
nature and culture. With such support the hotel will reinforce
its assistance to local weavers, painters and fishermen. Authentic
ecotourism is a well defined philosophy at Uxlabil.