Landmark cope with Paris-based growth firm to launch influence investments to develop sustainable and experiential mountain, seaside and farm lodges according to France’s ecotourism drive.
PARIS, FRANCE – Luxury ecolodge administration firm ENVI Lodges has entered a strategic partnership with Paris-based developer, Blue Ocean Capital France (BOCF), to construct 4 high-end sustainable and experiential lodges in France.
The landmark deal, which leverages a funding technique that may mix fairness, debt, and authorities help for influence investments, will kick-start ENVI’s bold European development plans, with the brand new ecolodges focusing on beautiful mountain, seaside, and farm areas over the following 5 years.
The 4 ecolodges will spotlight BOCF’s experience in accountable city growth, hospitality, and actual property, and capitalise on the area’s burgeoning ecotourism sector, which is ready to contribute a 38% share of the worldwide worth by 2027, with France, Germany and the UK accounting for 50% of that market.*
Ecotourism is one in all France’s quickest creating tourism sectors, rising greater than twice the speed of GDP in 2022 and projected to be price €11.6 billion (US$12.71 billion) by the top of 2023.**
This has been fuelled by the French authorities’s strong ecotourism drive, having earmarked the business as a key growth precedence and implementing a swathe of insurance policies and initiatives to foster its development, together with monetary incentives for eco-friendly tourism infrastructure and the promotion of sustainable tourism practices.
Aligned to this technique, ENVI Lodges specialises in low-impact different lodging equivalent to lodges, tents, cabins, treehouses, and biophilic pods and follows excessive requirements of sustainability, with each ecolodge constructed round three key pillars: the safety of wildlife, the aware use of pure assets and supporting native communities.
Similarly, BOCF adopts a ‘Business with Purpose’ philosophy, with confirmed experience creating upscale hospitality tasks throughout Europe, the Middle East and Latin America which can be aware of the setting and communities they influence.
“With its responsible development approach, Blue Ocean Capital is a perfect fit for ENVI Lodges as we map out our European growth plans in line with the global shift towards sustainable and regenerative tourism , starting with key ecotourism hotspots such as France,” stated Chris Nader, Co-Founder, ENVI Lodges.
“We envisage that our four lodges will be developed in a circuit, reinforcing our commitment to sustainability by centralising resources and services and offering guests four completely different purpose-driven experiences inspired by their location.”
Walid Maalouf, President at Blue Ocean Capital France, stated: “Our partnership with ENVI Lodges, an ecolodge pioneering operator, aims to showcase a new model for ecotourism success in France, based on a triple bottom line mindset: Measuring & balancing social, environmental & economical results.”
The mission will reveal how locations may be developed responsibly whereas assembly accelerated market demand for aware and significant leisure: Combining the advantages of immersion in nature, cohesion with native communities in addition to environmental stewardship.
The four-lodge circuit in France will mark section one in all ENVI’s finance and growth collaboration with BOCF, with section two eyeing developments throughout Europe in markets together with Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece.
* Technavio (Sustainable Tourism Market Type, Booking channel, and Geography – Forecast and Analysis 2023-2027)
** Statista, “Ecotourism market size in France from 2015 to 2019, with a forecast for 2023” (2021), BOCF Analysis.
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