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...
Sukau Rainforest Lodge Listed in National Geographic Adventure’s ‘Top 50 Ecolodges 2009’ Sukau Rainforest Lodge (SRL) of Malaysia is once again in the limelight when it was featured in National Geographic Adventure’s magazine as one of the 50 Top Ecolodges (Jungle Lodges category). The recognition reaffirms Sukau Rainforest Lodge’s warm hospitality, unique jungle experience and...
Meet Osman, our licensed bird watching specialist from Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. As a seasoned guide, Osman has led discerning travellers to discover Borneo in a fun and enjoyable way. The blue badge guide is easy going, radiates friendliness and able to guide with patience – earning him the reputation as a pleasant travel companion....
Sukau Rainforest Lodge of Sabah, on Malaysian Borneo was recently nominated for two award categories at the 15th World Travel Awards in 2008. It is nominated as one of the nine World’s Leading Eco-Lodges and one of Asia’s 5 Leading Green Hotels. The voting involved 167,000 travel professionals worldwide with the aim to acknowledge, reward...
Bob Ellice-Flint is one. At 90, he has the energy of someone 20 years younger and he can make a speech more fluently than most politicians. Yet Bob has had a tough life. His father was a farmer whose livelihood was destroyed by the Great Depression. Bob had to leave school at 15 and struggled...
Participants of the P2P Greeniz programme will be learning about sustainable eco-tourism during their camp in Kinabatangan, Sabah, next week. AS his boat glided down Sungai Kinabatangan, Albert Teo was struck by the sight of gaps in the forests along the riverbank. He later learned that the gaps were the sites where logs harvested from...
In the past 72 hours, the whole team of us P2P Greeniz have experienced and done stuff that most of Malaysian teenagers will probably never get to do in their lifetime. On Sunday, after arriving in Sandakan, we journeyed up the Kinabatangan for 3 hours to reach Sukau Rainforest Lodge. Along the way we got...
Borneo Ecotourism Solutions & Technologies (BEST) a non-profit division of Borneo Eco Tours Sdn. Bhd organized a half-day seminar on the 12th of April 2008, titled Human Capital Development at Bavanggazo Rungus Longhouse near Kg Tinangol, Kudat. This seminar is another initiative by Borneo Eco Tours to support the Rungus community in Kudat by building...