Caring for destination

This accommodation provider has taken action to address one or more issues (whether environmental, social or cultural) which will contribute positively to the long term viability of the destination and hence their site displays a Caring for the destination rating.

Main area of focus in Caring for the Destination:  

The owner of Beti Betak personally takes guests to numerous sites everywhere in Syria to make them fully immersed in the lifestyle of locals. Tourists for example visit numerous households and try out gastronomic delights throughout Syria.

Detailed description of the Caring for the Destination Initiative: 

When people from other cultures meet, they can mutually benefit from one another. As here in the case of the hotel's owner when he takes tourists to locals' houses, he allows the locals to be more open to the world and learn new things not known or experienced in that village, especially if it was an influential person in that respective village. Likewise, the tourist learns how to prepare a local dish and he may be intrigued by that village's life style. Therefore, he directs more of friends to return to this village or may write an article about in some newspaper or blog to let traffic increase to it and in the long run increase cash flow to that village and lead it into improvement.