Corbett Wild Iris Spa & Resorts Has The concept of tourism existed since time immemorial when man travelled far and wide in pursuit of pleasure or spirituality. However the tourism boom began with the advent of faster modes of travel. Shipping was the first to come up followed by the locomotive, the motor car and finally the air plane. Each has contributed to travel immensely by cutting down the travel time drastically. Along with the industrial revolution came disposable incomes which have today made travel affordable to the vast majority.

However while technology may have made travel easy, it has not been able to keep pace with the rate of depletion of natural resources at tourist destinations that came along with the heavy influx of human population in the vicinity. The perceivable adverse effects have been so profound that it is today believed that Tourism is a major contributor to environmental degradation.

This realization lead to the development of the concept of eco-tourism in 2010 and at Iris Resorts we are fully aware of our role in the environments that we operate in. From the foot hills of Shivalik Himalaya to the forests of Corbett .

Some of the major environmental activities that we undertake in our resorts on a daily basis are:

• Water reduction (in kitchen & laundry)
• Water recycling (for gardening)
• Minimal usage of fossil fuels
• Minimal usage of paper
• Usage of natural pesticides
• Usage of organic fertilizers

Periodic activities that we do are:

• Planting of saplings in the vicinity
• Water Harvesting
• Plastic Recycling awareness program in the villages.
• Developing awareness program .