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Borneo Eco Tours is elated to be named as the winner of the Sabah Tourism Awards 2009 in the Best Inbound Tour Operator category. Founder and Managing Director of Borneo Eco Tours, Mr. Albert Teo accepted the award at a gala dinner hosted by the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Environment Sabah at a leading resort in Kota Kinabalu on 21st November 2009. He thanked the staff of Borneo Eco Tours and its group of companies for their concerted efforts and support that make this company a prolific contributor not just in tourism industry but in the area of conservation and community development.<\/p>\n
Borneo Eco Tours\u2019 achievement in Sabah Tourism Awards dated back since the 1990\u2019s. The company emerged winner in similar category in 1997 and more recently, won the Best Tour Package through 3D\/2N Kinabatangan Wildlife Safari<\/a> in 2007. Sukau Rainforest Lodge<\/a>, our eco lodge in Lower Kinabatangan was also named as the finalist in \u2018Excellence in Hotel Services \u2013 Nature Lodge\u2019 category this year. Earlier in September 2009, the lodge was again in the limelight\u00a0when it was shortlisted as the\u00a0finalist in the 16th World Travel Awards 2009 – World’s Leading Eco-Lodges<\/a> and Asia’s Leading Green Hotel<\/a> for the second consecutive year.<\/p>\n Set up in 1991, Borneo Eco Tours is committed to the principle of Sustainable Development and the realization of a true triple bottom line business committing towards benefiting the community, environment while staying profitable. Albert and his team introduced and apply \u2018Green Policies\u2019<\/a> in its operation to minimize impacts on the environment. His companies also takes on proactive role in conservation, community projects and social entrepreneurship development through its non-profit organization, Borneo Eco Tourism Solutions & Technologies Society (BEST)<\/a><\/p>\n Borneo Eco Tours also operates the 60 beds Borneo Backpackers<\/a> (since 2004) in Kota Kinabalu and the award winning 20-room ecolodge Sukau Rainforest Lodge (1995) in Sukau which played host to the delegates for post conference tours of the World Ecotourism Conference in 1999, the WWF Annual Conference 1999 in Kota Kinabalu, the first Asia Pacific Ecotourism Conference or APeco2002 and Borneo Ecotourism Conference BEC2005 convened by Albert Teo.<\/p>\n More information, visit our website at : Borneo Eco Tours is elated to be named as the winner of the Sabah Tourism Awards 2009 in the Best…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"featured_post":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borneoecotours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borneoecotours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borneoecotours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borneoecotours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borneoecotours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.borneoecotours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5136,"href":"https:\/\/www.borneoecotours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/5136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borneoecotours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borneoecotours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borneoecotours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"featured_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borneoecotours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_post?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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