The beach view, the coral diving experience, the fresh seafood menu, the sunset terrace — across the MENA coastal belt, the ocean is what drives room rates and repeat bookings. And yet ocean health rarely makes it onto a hotel’s sustainability agenda.
For this World Oceans Day episode — and the 50th episode of Season 1 — Radhika is joined by Tatiana Antonelli Abella, founder of Goumbook and the force behind the MENA Ocean Summit and MENA Ocean Network.
In this conversation the focus is on:
– why the Gulf is a living lab for global coral research,
– what desalination is really doing to our seas,
– the difference between sustainable and regenerative hospitality, and
– what every hotel GM on the MENA coastline should be doing differently from June 8th onwards.
Supporting Hotels on Their Sustainability Journey
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