CONSERVATION CORPORATION AFRICA, SOUTH & EAST AFRICA

Finalist Community Benefit Award 2005

Conservation Corporation Africa (CC Africa) is Africa's leading ecotourism company, committed to providing world-class experiences for discerning travellers, and to ongoing investment in sustainable conservation development and community empowerment.

We own and operate more than 45 exceptional safari lodges and camps in the wilderness highspots of South, Southern and East Africa. We also operate exquisite jungle safari lodges on the borders of tiger reserves in India. CC Africa employs 2,500 people, the majority coming from rural communities.
We also operate Walking and Specialist Safaris, and Under Canvas (luxury camping safaris), as well as customised travel services in 16 African countries, and now in India, too.
CC Africa's pioneering ecotourism model recognises that economic development of the areas in which we operate is crucial to the maintenance of biodiversity. We also acknowledge that much of Africa's wild heritage and land is influenced or owned by local communities. Our model - successfully implemented throughout our operations in Africa - links international discerning guests to these wilderness areas and the resident communities who directly benefit from the resultant revenues of ecotourism and conservation.
Our passionate belief in the "Care of the Land, Care of the Wildlife, Care of the People" is evident in everything that we do in the field, and this is constantly communicated to our guests. Through physically demonstrating our commitment to conservation and community development, our guests see with their own eyes how, by choosing a CC Africa destination, their travel money is used for positive benefit. We believe that, from then on, they would ensure that their future travel choices would make a difference, both environmentally and socially.