Our Eco Policy
Our hotel building is locally owned by a prestigious Bedouin Sheikh and his family, built on lands belonging to their ancestors. Lease fees are introduced directly into the local community and distributed between family members.
By avoiding foreign owned hotel chains whose profits disappear out of the country, choosing Fantasea Dive Resort for your holiday ensures that the money you pay stays within the country and benefits the local economy.
We are proud to state that all our staff are local, originating from the mainland Egypt or the Sinai Peninsula. (scroll down)
We provide in-house training to all new members of staff, encouraging inexperienced locals by offering an opportunity to start a career in the hospitality or dive industry.
Our local drivers are all fully licenced and and work under strict guidelines.
All fresh produce is dispatched to Sinai from the Delta in mainland Egypt, although we support and encourage a local Bedouin family who have cultivated arid desert land to produce various fruits and vegetables. Although stock is not ample enough to sustain many tourism resorts, the crops are purely organic and grown from seed using natural spring water.
We support local tourism initiatives and have created conservation projects together with the National Parks of Egypt. We are also part of the eco-tourism program introduced to Sinai by The Travel Foundation. See our Hotel Eco Policies below about how we actively work towards conservation principles.
Throughout the Resort we display and sell locally produced items and crafts ranging from beauty products, swim wear, beaded embroidery and art work. Guests are conscious of these economical aspects and have the choice to pay that little extra for something hand made as opposed to an imported alternative.
While on safari in remote areas we explain to our guests that purchasing local crafts from the women and children creates a certain independence and pride and can provide an income for a whole family. By creating this income families have the choice to continue residing in the desert plain as opposed to many who must relocate to the resort towns to earn a living.
Drivers are given a Reef Awareness briefing prior to driving, introducing them to the fragile environment which is the Red Sea. We follow strict guidelines outlines by the National Parks of Egypt and SSDM on marine conservation and diver conduct.
Fantasea Divers has developed a Reef Watch programme on our house reef where continuous research is recorded and monitored by our divers. Guests have the opportunity to work on the programme as a normal guided dive, with data collected fed into our database.
