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WAVE International

A sustainable tourism development program

Creating pragmatic and sustainable solutions to environmental, economic, cultural and community needs in the wetlands and coastal regions around the globe

And

Mainstreaming social businesses in the Eco-Resorts industry for coastal management and marine conservation

WAVE International ,

The world’s first mobile, coastal, social business, Eco-Resort utilizing

breakthrough technological innovation

SELF FINANCED , It's a SEED.

COST : 750.000 usd for 10 bungalows + clubhouse: 700sqm.

“ SLEEP WITH WHALES, FOLLOW THE WHALES ECORESORT”,

not included : vocational and professional training + energy

REVENUES benefiting local communities = fair tourism = 50%

reinvestment = 30%, financial fees = 20%

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WHAT WE WILL PROVIDE TO LOCAL COMMUNITIES:

A SKILL / A MARKET/ A BUSINESS / A SOCIAL INVESTOR

W A V E International

Wetlands and Aquatic Villages sustainable tourism

International

Creating the world’s first mobile coastal social business eco-

resorts and eco-villages

An unprecedented, unique and sustainable tourism initiative

AIM: To create a long range, sustainable, low impact, and social business model based on

floating village sustainable tourism in wetlands and coastal regions for local communities around

the globe.


The WAVE International program will initialize the construction of floating villages, made of

natural and environmentally friendly materials such as wood and bamboo, cotton, wool and linen,

reeds and wicker, and other natural fibres building materials to create beautiful and state of the

art, eco-tourists attractive floating villages for eco tourism development in areas of the world

which have traditionally been neglected by commercial development and are impoverished due to

lack of industry and tourism such as in the bayous, swamps, mangroves, estuaries, river deltas, and

coastal regions of equatorial Asia, Africa and Latin America.

WAVE will create OPEN INNOVATION INDUSTRY and social businesses for local communities,

focusing on the empowerment of women and youth, in coastal and wetland regions of under

developed countries around the globe based on a floating village industry model that is self

financed, autonomous in energy generation, sustainable and owned, run and managed by the local

community and one that promotes environmental protection and conservation by using

renewable building materials, renewable energy resources and low impact building and

construction.

Who is WAVE International?

WAVE International collaboration between house boat builders, private investors, local national

park directors of coastal regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America and conservation who are

equipped and eager to implement a social business model in the wetlands of Java, Gabon and

Central America in order to demonstrate a genuine working sustainable tourism model that truly

benefits the women, youth and men of the communities in which it is created by means of

training those people to build their own floating eco-touristic villages and imparting essential

trade and managerial skills to empower these communities to control, own and thrive in their


various businesses. WAVE will thereby provide the needed tools for wetland communities to

compete in the world today with a sustainable and ecologically friendly economy. We have the

know-how, the expertise and the heart to provide tangible and real solutions to environmental

and economic needs throughout the world today.

We believe in and demonstrate FAIR TRADE practices

WAVE International is about investing in local communities and the women, youth and men living

in these communities by giving them opportunity to become business owners and not just

minimum wage modern day slaves, as do many so called sustainable tourism programs that claim

to bring jobs to local people. WAVE International will not support traditional exploitation of

residents for big foreign investors but insists on making local business people the owners and co-

owners of local businesses. By doing so, the inhabitants of wetland and coastal regions are free to

fully financially support themselves at a high standard of living. Fair trade then is not just providing

employment but the empowerment of people by providing the physical infrastructures and

vocational tools and skills combined with a social- business financial arrangement for ownership of

local businesses, which in turn enriches the community as a whole, both economically and socially.

This is Fair Trade in action and not simply rhetoric.

A SKILL / A MARKET/ A BUSINESS / A SOCIAL INVESTOR


ACTION TITLE:

WAVE international : Marine & Coastal management through mainstreaming sustainable tourism and Eco-lodges Development by Sustainable Downsized Luxury Resort Hotel, a complete business investment plan in hospitality market to be a reference and an example for local Gender Empowerment and Biodiversity Conservation

Lot : 1 Local and Durable Development

Location (s) of initiative: - country

Sites : -Indonesia; Java

Time scale of the project

24 months

Total amount for the project

USD 1.250.000 with energy autonomy

Funding Requested

5% local community investment

45% private funding (crowdfunding and investors ROI 72 months)

50% NGO

Objectives of the initiative

A) Global Objectives

1-To Provide a framework and a working tool for local people to engage in local self-development and then duplicated the original industry and local funding»

2-To promote equality of opportunity and equality through cooperative self-entrepreneurship.

B) Specific Objectives

1- To enhance the entrepreneurial capacity of the participants

2-To create jobs and income for people from the tourism industry

3-To identify local eco-initiatives by reinvesting earnings in the local economy/region

Target Groups target groups: women, youth, conversion fishermen, farmers

Financial Beneficiaries the inhabitants of the town of Lambarene, local populations, rural, lake and coastal areas

Estimated ResultsPER VILLAGE : 10 direct local jobs / 20 local indirect jobs + 10 induced+

POTENTIAL STAKEHOLDES : 2 MILLIONS

Major Activities Ecoresort / sustainable tourism / Ecolodge / Hotel / Restaurant / Agro-tourism

CONTACTS For contact : [email protected]


CONTENT:

1. What is a Wave International Floating Eco Tourism Village?

2. What are the Twelve Advantages of Floating Homes/Floating Commercial Units?

3. Who will benefit from WAVE International?

4. What kind of business model will WAVE International utilize?

5. What types of businesses-actions will WAVE International establish?

A. Eco Tourism Social Businesses

B. Fisheries and Sea Farming

C. Fabrication for local use and Export of villages

D. Eco Resorts, Eco Lodges, Whale Watching Eco Lodges, Eco

“Flotels/Botels”and Floating Villages

E. Sustainable tourism Cultural and Traditional Dance, Music and Art Exhibition

and Classes

F. Floating restaurants featuring regional specialities and traditional foods and

culinary courses

G. Floating camping and “glamping” (glamorous camping)

H. Sustainable tourism Water and Sea Sport Recreation Businesses such as

• sailing classes and rental

• windsurfing, surfing courses

• surf board rentals

• diving courses and diving equipment rentals

• sea kayaking classes and kayak rentals

• waterslide parks for children and adults of all ages

• whale, shark and dolphin watching

• marine life observation lodges for overnight whale watching or

“sleeping with whales”

• wellness centres and sea spas


• art and cultural centres offering art, dance, music and sport classes

for children and youth

• children’s Nature Exploration and Learning Programs

• endangered species animal sanctuaries and conservation centres

6. How will WAVE International benefit local communities?

7. What type of Education and Training Programs will WAVE International offer?

8. How much will WAVE International cost?

9. How long will it take for WAVE International to a Floating Village?

10. What makes WAVE International different to other programs? /Conclusion

ANNEX: Examples of similar sustainable tourism programs from around the World and Eco

Tourism Organizations that Support Them


1. What is a Wave International Floating Eco Tourism Village?

An Eco Touristic Village is a community of an assembly of floating homes and businesses for

accommodating tourist and local residents in an environmentally friendly manner whilst in nature

economically viable and self sufficient. Depending on the types of tourists catered to, such floating

eco touristic villages could have floating units such as:

•“Flotels” (floating hotels) and “Botels” ( flotels accessed by boats)

•Restaurants, cafes, bakeries

•Clinics, hospitals


•Spas

•Schools, academies, colleges, universities

•Shops and even floating malls

•Cinemas and theatres

•Information and cultural centres and even

•Factories and workshop in which to fabricate other floating villages components for coastal

and wetland social enterprises and exportation both regionally and around the globe.

2. What are the Twelve Advantages of Floating Homes and Floating

Commercial Units?

These floating eco touristic villages have the tremendous advantage of being:

1. Affordable to build: The material elements for a floating unit can be locally massed produced at

low costs. This is break-through innovation for third world countries which lack the resources and

equipment to fabricate their owning building materials locally and are thus typically dependent on

expensive and foreign goods.

2. Simple to construct: With a well trained building team, a floating unit can be built within only

several weeks time.


3. Flood resistant: This is extremely important today due to climate change and extreme weather

increase all over the world but especially in tropical regions where typhoons are becoming more

and more frequent.

4. Mobile: Floating village components can easily be moved from place to place by tug boat,

narrow boats, power vehicles and even animals such as donkeys, horses and water buffalo.

Floating units can be loaded on barges for transportation and delivery.

5. Adaptable in Configuration: Because floating villages are made from many individual floating

units, the arrangement or configuration of the village can be altered according to the needs of

floating village residents and business owners and according to the market, as the units can be

easily detached and re-attached.

6. Solar Powered and energy self sufficient: The floating units are each equipped with their own

electricity generating system using solar panels.

7. State of the art and possessing Integral Grey or Used Water Recycling systems which are neatly

incorporated into the design of the floating houses and buildings.

8. Protein Autonomous: People living in floating villages can supply their own protein needs by

“growing” or cultivating fish in fisheries.

9. Crowdfunding Compliant =owning a “boathotel bedroom business” which is transportable to

wherever there is enough water to float it.

10. Accessible by land, water and air. Floating villages can be reached by vehicles by roads and

then boarding docks and bridges as well as by boat and seaplane and, even helicopter landing on

floating landing pads.

11. Low Environmental Impact: Because of floating eco-resorts and floating villages will be on the

water and therefore transportable and accessed by water, there will be no need to build roads

which means close to zero carbon emission. Like a kind of bicycle of the seas, our floating

communities and villages will leave no carbon footprint.

12. Capable to create an industry for sustainable touristic infrastructure such as hotels and

restaurants and touristic recreation and wilderness and water sport activities and ventures such as

nature exploration and tours, diving, kayaking, sailing and whale watching. Floating villages and

eco-resorts then would create a market for locally run hospitality businesses and bring skills

training to the women, youth and local fishermen and sustenance farmers living in the area.


3. Who will benefit from WAVE International?

WAVE will improve the lives of local people by bringing durable and socially responsible economic

and ecological change by the

Empowerment of Women, Youth and Fishermen

WAVE specifically aims to recruit women and young adults into its work force. By hiring and

recruiting local women and youth as employees, staff and managers as well as providing a means

for local women entrepreneurs to launch their own businesses within the floating villages, WAVE

empowers those who are otherwise economically disadvantaged to secure their own incomes and

secure their own livelihoods.

Women in third world countries are frequently excluded from managerial positions and are often

left to do menial jobs. However it is the small businesses of women that supply the needs of

families traditionally. It is therefore our main priority to place women into leadership and

management roles in the floating village industries and give them the chance they have since been

denied.

It is equally important for WAVE to support and guide young men and women into successful

career opportunities with the various enterprises of the floating villages and mainstream eco

tourism industry.

For this purpose, training programs in hospitality management for hotels and restaurants, and the

eco tourism field in general, as well as trade schools for building, carpentry, cooking, and

electricians.


4. What kind of business model will WAVE International utilize?

Social Business Model: Institutionalizing and mainstreaming community-based mechanisms at the

policy/regulatory and governance levels contributes to sustaining the gains from the projects.

Measures such as evaluating the capacity of communities in selecting them for support,

participatory approaches to data gathering, platform for information exchange and

progress/impacts monitoring should be part of project management strategies which can ensure

sustainability.

Wave International will enable local communities to establish coastal management ventures based on a Social

Business Model; businesses that are run, managed and owned by local community members and that directly

benefit the local communities.

USD

Estimated revenue activity accommodation only

Payroll and purchasing, maintenance

Communication / Tours operators (5)

Levy reinvestment

1st Year 620.000 250.000 75.000 190.000

2nd Year 720.000 290.000 85.000 230.000

3rd Year 780.000 300.000 90.000 260.000

Accordingly, repayment of financial costs of private financing is the difference in the cost and TO (turn over).

This private funding not being there is a majority shareholder ethic. Local people are the final beneficiaries

and mainly public and private participants will use the example of the model to create a synergy with other

territories in the mapping of the emergence implemented by the government. At the macro level, it

foreshadows a space for innovation as a cluster between tourism, hospitality and export.

A Cost Comparison; the figures speak for themselves

1. New Catamaran:

Three cabins, cost is 500 000usd (160 000usd /cabin). A cabin is 12 square

meters; a skipper and a crew are required, and is by nature, NOT a social

business.

http://m.boatshopgroup.com/browse/motor-boats/high-speed-catamaran/tortuga-42-powercat-usd-

495-000-new-south-africa-l296.html

2. Boats such as the following:

Four cabins for guests from 350 000€ (450 000 usd), with 110000 usd a cabin and

with the same surface as a catamaran! They require a large crew which is not local

as for example:

http://www.moanacruising.com/en/the-boat.html

(Crew= captain, mechanic, cook, deckhands, waiter/s, dive guide, and cruise director) and again, this is NOT an example of a social business.

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1) WAVE International, however offers:

A cabin for 35 000€ - 45 000 usd, 50 square meters, 70% of the crew is local

which makes it very much a fair trade and SOCIAL BUSINESS, as well as more

comfortable and more affordable!

5. What types of businesses-actions will WAVE International

establish?The goal of WAVE International is to create local businesses that are both environmentally friendly

and low impact as well as economically durable, self supporting and sustainable.

A. Eco Tourism Social Businesses,

B. Fisheries and Sea Farming: Management and establishment of fisheries and responsible sea

and fresh water farming and harvesting by local communities using floating production facilities.


C. Fabrication for local use and Export of villages

a. Houseboats, Floating Commercial Buildings, Furniture and other locally fabricated

products made from natural and local materials.

b. Fabrication of floating units such as houses, shops, hotels and other products such as

furniture using local, sustainable and renewable materials such as local types of wood and

bamboos, by local people in floating workshops and factories.


D. Eco Resorts, Eco Lodges, Whale Watching Eco Lodges, Eco “Flotels / Botels”and Floating

Villages

Sustainable tourism Promotion and Management on a local level, attracting tourists from all over

the world to enjoy water sports and recreation, diving, fishing, flora and fauna discovery and

appreciation, and relaxation in floating hotels, spas and youth hostels, Hosting adventure programs

and creating floating tourist attractions such as amusement parks and marine life interaction

centres with dolphin and whale petting and shows for children and adults, thus developing a local

and sustainable industry, owned, managed by and staffed by the local community.

Whale Watching and “Sleeping with Whales” on Floating Marine Life Observation Lodges

“Come aboard our floating marine life observation base, gaze hour after hour into the sea and fall

gently to sleep with the movement of the waves. Listen to the song of the earth's largest mammal:

don't just watch the whales, sleep with them.

Silent and Comfortable Floating Whale-Watching Bases... what better way to observe the giants of


the sea in complete tranquillity using only the power of the sun!

Our state of the art floating observation bases are made of the highest quality woods and built to

any desired size and design. These silently propelled crafts are powered by the energy of the sun

alone, using solar panels to both drive and power all its electrical needs.

Whale watchers can use the floating base for both daytime and night time marine life observation

as well as sleep comfortably aboard the floating base. “

E. Sustainable tourism Cultural and Traditional Dance, Music and Art Exhibition

and Classes

F. Floating restaurants featuring regional specialties and traditional foods and

culinary courses


G. Floating Camping and “Glamping” (glamorous camping)

H. Sustainable tourism Water and Sea Sport Recreation Businesses such as

•••• sailing classes and rental

•••• windsurfing, surfing courses

• surf board rentals


• diving schools and equipment rentals

• waterslide parks for children and adults of all ages


• sea kayaking classes and kayak rentals

• whale, shark and dolphin watching

• marine life observation lodges for overnight whale watching or

“sleeping with whales”

• Art and cultural centres offering art, dance, music and sport classes

for children and youth


• Wellness centres and sea spas

• Children’s nature exploration and learning programs

• Endangered Species Sanctuaries and Conservation Centres

WAVE International is deeply concerned about endangered animal and plant species all over the

world and is very committed to play its role to create animal and plant sanctuaries where tourist

can come to observe, photograph and encounter these precious creatures. The revenues

generated by eco-touristic tours and low impact ventures into endangered species habitats can

then be used to implement protective measures and regulations to secure the safety and future

welfare of these threatened life-forms, be it animal or plant.


6. How will WAVE International benefit local communities?

Wave will create durable, energy autonomous and self financed Industries. The sustainable

fishing industry as well as the sustainable tourism industry and floating village components

production and furniture fabrication industries established by WAVE in these floating communities

and villages will be completely self-financed and will use self produced electricity by implementing

solar power systems and other renewable energy sources and systems such as wind and ocean

tidal generated energy.

Wave will secure and promote the conservation and preservation of local biodiversity and

ecologically threatened coastal and wetland bio systems, especially due to climate change and

caused from pollution and environmental contamination, as well as deforestation caused by

conventional tourism and industry today on third world nations.

Wave will provide affordable, ecological and flood resistant homes and housing for education

and health care facilities and other types of municipal buildings for community needs such as

floating classrooms, clinics, shops, schools, meeting and governmental halls and offices and any

other floating buildings needed by local people and local governments.

WAVE will found and support professional and vocational training and educational centres in

Wetland and Coastal Regions.

7. What type of Education and Training Programs will WAVE International offer?

1. Trade and vocational schools for hotel management, project management, culinary schools

2. Hotel and Hospitality Management and Training Centres training local women, youth and

fishermen to become skilled and professional hotel and restaurant staff, managers and directors

for eco resorts and floating eco touristic villages.

3. Scientific and Research Centres for national and international universities, especially for

research in regional biodiversity

4. Academic and educational centres such as colleges, academies and universities for local and

international students, providing top rate education for local children and young people who

would otherwise have little or no chance for an education, thus enabling to compete academically

at international levels and thereby empowering them to pursue careers and vocations that would

otherwise be denied them because of poverty and distance from academic institutions and

schools.


8. How much will WAVE International cost?

Budget Plan for a Floating Village Model

REAL CONSTRUCTION, REAL ACTION AT A MINIMUM COST

• Training of stakeholders in management techniques, commercial and hotel management, i.e

hospitality businesses, through the methodology of the Living Lab (open innovation) that

corresponds perfectly with the tradition of women’s entrepreneurship and in accordance with the

GSTC (Global Sustainable Tourism Council) resources. Our initiative provides the studies and

educational tools to do.

• Construction of 10 floating cottages with a capacity of 3 persons per bungalow for a total

accommodation capacity of 30-33 people

• Development of a floating clubhouse restaurant

OPTIONAL

• Creation of infrastructure for water recreation

• Creation of a nature interpretation center and an educational/cultural center


1. Training personnel

2. Building materials and building staff costs, platforms hulls, windows, electrical wiring and

plumbing fixtures, etc Equipment and machinery costs included in boat hotel

3. Vehicles, boats, and other motorized vehicles costs (optional)

4 .Tour operators and communication expenses and costs per villages

U.S Dollars EUROPAIDSubsidies

Co-financing and Crowdfunding

Contribution of the local business coopertive5-10%

Total100%

Amount requested 650.000 550.000 65,000 1.265.000

Utilization of Resources

Construction and Materials (2)

Training and intangible deliverables over 2 years (1)

Self sufficient inEnergy generation

750.000 280.000 235.000 1.265.000


Economic Survey: exceeded versus current examples

hotel accommodation 10ch 30-people'

Camping, fishing, safari

lodge ... 2 *

Health EcolodgeAndzaha

3 *

Ecolodge from Java Nihiwatu

4*

Cooperative floating eco-lodge

3/4*

Descript.Classically simple hotel with bungalows

Ecolodge which co-operation of a dispensary

Luxury ecolodge in Indonesia

Ecolodge international standard with floating bungalows

Cost of Materials

620 ro 750.000USImported materialexcluding land 100-250 USD/m2 with 1ha minimum

900.000USDomestic wood ecologicalexcluding land USD/m2 100-250 with 1 ha minimum

+2 M USinvestmentWood / concreteexcluding land 100-250 USD/m2 with 1ha minimum

750.000 USD

And autonomy

No land! No property!

Profitability and ROI 3 years 5 years 8-10 years 3 to 5 years

+The conventionaleconomic model inherited from the past, foreign investors etc..

Access to care for people

In the top 50 five star ecolodgeswith access to drinking water agreement local populations

Work toolEmpowerment of people local industryResource Managementmovable collaborativeintegrated management of coastal areas and marine lake energy independence

-Catastrophic impact on environment,building roads etc..

50-100 USD / continuity

HumanitarianLittle involvement of people

200 USD / continuity

Consumption of forest areasWithout social continuity (nests tourists)Price per night: 440 USDSpace and carbon footprint

150 to 300 USD / night

ParticipantsTour operatorsexternal participants

Tourists Tourists, tour operators

Cooperatives among women, peasants, fishermen etc..


9. How long will it take for WAVE International to a Floating Village?

A. Mobilizations and transportation of building materials, machinery and work crews and

instructors is very low in CO2 emissions when compared to the 1000 tons of concrete used for

construction by a “sustainable tourism” project in Indonesia called Misool for example. (See link

below)

http://www.mcatoolkit.org/pdf/Ecoresort_Partnership_Assessment_Final_V1.pdf)

Construction of floating village units by employing local workers


B. MOBILIZATION OF FUNDING: Why our model is very adapted to crowdfunding

• A flexible mixture of NGO and Private Funding, social entrepreneurship/social

business/full private commercial

• Fraud proof because 100 per cent of the money spent/invested goes directly to the

manufacturers

• Perks and bonuses could be given to investors such as time sharing credit and/or a unique

sleeping with whales holiday experience

• Joint venture, social business because neither the investors nor the local communities

would be the total owner but in fact both.


CROWDFUNDING PLATFORMS OFFERS

1. GIFTS IDEAS

• For 300 USD gift coupon purchase of for one night plus meals

• For 10000€ - 13000 USD Time Share Credit of 1 week a year for a lifelong

3. LOANS

• 35,000€-45.000 USD loan = a bedroom

More reasons why our project is adapted to crowdfunding and/or monthly investments:

• ROI is fixed at 5% a year or over 6-7 years pay back.

• We are awarded/labelized by big NGO’s and supported by them which gives people the confidence

they need to invest and become a part owner.

• No money is required up front as construction is financed by local stakeholders. This allows for high

quality building standards realization as the project takes approximately two years to complete.

• For each 35 000€ -45.000 USD collected, a bungalow is ordered which means for every 7000€

accrued (loans, gifts and also reinvestment from business activity), 1/5 of a bungalow can be paid.

A bungalow takes 5 months to be built which means growth is exponential and rapidly replicated.

• Cash returns are sure to be earned as investments are made in working tools or business

infrastructure and not speculation.

• Investment means ownership of real hardware such as a floating state of the art bungalow or

floating shop or restaurant or hotel. One invests in an actual physical product and not software but

hardware which is reliable and has a warranty.

• The product purchased such as a floating home or a floating commercial building can be sold even if

not paid back because one owns it.

• There is no risk of bad weather destruction because, as with any luxury boat hotel, floating homes

and commercial units can be quickly moved if threatened by typhoons, forest fires or even wars

from political instability.

• Also like boat hotel, floating hotels and floating homes and floating commercial units can be moved

to ideal locations therefore allowing for increase rates per night for floating hotels and eco-lodges.

• Our staff (management, crew, captain, chef, etc) is on location full time

• Co-owners are involved in running the businesses

• We can preserve biodiversity by creating floating communities and floating commercial centres


• Ideal and sound fiscal business plan

• Thematic Tourism such as whale watching and sleeping with the whales is very demanded today

and therefore is considered be top eco-lodge

• Highest Ethic Standards as all the money collected for the project goes to the local communities

who run the businesses to pay back the investor, you!

• Safe and secure Investment as the money collected/invested for the project goes directly to the

manufacturers, thereby alleviating risk of fraud.


10. Conclusion: What Makes WAVE International Different to Other

Programs?

ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS!

WAVE International will act as a powerful on site type of “engine” to power and bring into

movement and action the GEF coastal management program. Wave will not consist of

administrative and bureaucratic activities but of real building, constructing, consulting, training

and “rolling up your sleeves getting your hands dirty” physical work and assertion on the part of

the local communities involved and on the part of the team of WAVE International builders,

trainers, consultants, experts and coordinators to bring into fruition the creation of eco-villages

and eco-resorts in the economically depressed coastal regions of the world much in need of

genuine and pragmatic support and development and not yet another “aid program” that makes

a lot of noise and achieves very little. We will not be content to file papers and draw up plans. We

want to implement real measures to introduce and demonstrate successful social or cooperative

businesses at a downsized level in order to bring a thriving sustainable tourism industry into the

hands of the people who in fact should own and manage the tourist industry; the people of the

local communities and not only foreign speculators. To do this, we will appeal for funding of all

kinds in order to furnish the financial resources required for the cost of building materials,

equipment and labour costs for the construction of these floating eco villages and resorts, taking

into account the financial investment of the local communities as well.

WAVE is not an “aid” program as such but a program to support, facilitate, impart, instruct, train,

and equip people in wetland regions to be able to build their own floating bungalows and diverse

commercial floating units in order to launch successful eco tourism businesses of their own such as

floating hotels and restaurants. We are the tool, the means for constructive progress and

economic change in third world countries in coastal and wetland regions. Our philosophy is that if

you give a man or a woman a fish, and he or she can feed himself/herself for a day, but teach him

or her to build a floating home and a floating structure for an eco touristic business, and he or she

can feed, clothe and shelter his/her family for the rest of his/her days, at a much higher standard,

and even be able to employ neighbours, friends and family in his/her community.

1. WAVE will provide resources and funding to local entrepreneurs wanting to launch businesses

of their own within floating villages. A small investment of around 5 per cent would be required on

the part of local women, fishermen and subsistence farmers wanting to become business owners

and to be a part of a locally owned commercial venture as both a symbol and gesture of

commitment and financial engagement, whereas the majority of the funding would come from

government funds and private investors. These floating commercial village business owners would


then use some of their gains to reinvest in expanding community development or to create

complete new floating villages elsewhere, either in neighbouring regions or even in other

countries. In this fashion, floating eco tourism villages, based on a social business model, are both

self perpetuating and financially autonomous.

2. BUDGET AND FINANCIAL SCENARIO FOR THE CREATION OF A FLOATING ECO-VILLAGE

The beauty of WAVE International‘s floating village and eco-resort plan lies in its affordability and

rapid profit making nature. Because floating units such as bungalows and floating hotels and

floating restaurants and shops do not require the purchase or leasing of land/property and the

cost of the materials and the cost of labour to build are much less than building a conventional

building, investors of floating villages and floating eco-resorts are able to quickly earn gains on

their floating businesses and using their turn over to reinvest in the building of more floating

commercial units if desired.

3. FINANCIAL CASE SCENARIO: EXPONENTIAL SELF FINANCED.

It would take approximately four months and cost 35,000 €-45 000 USD to build a floating

bedroom unit for a floating hotel complex. This bedroom would then generate around 200 €-260

USD a night when used for hotel guests. Ten rooms at this rate per night would generate 2000 €-

2600 USD a night which would allow the hotel owner to accrue enough money within just two

weeks time (20%) to finance the building of yet another bedroom unit. The purchase and earnings

of such a ten unit floating hotel for instance, would then equate to be a very rapid pay back and

high valued investment indeed!

4. FAIR TOURISM

50% Of Business TURN OVER is dedicated to Local stakeholders. We believe in and demonstrate

FAIR TRADE practices. WAVE International is about investing in local communities and the

women, youth and men living in these communities by giving them opportunity to become

business owners and not just minimum wage modern day slaves, as do many so called sustainable

tourism programs that claim to bring jobs to local people. WAVE International will not support

traditional exploitation of residents for big foreign investors but insists on making local business

people the owners and co-owners of local businesses. By doing so, the inhabitants of wetland and

coastal regions are free to fully financially support themselves at a high standard of living. Fair

trade then is not just providing employment but the empowerment of people by providing the

physical infrastructures and vocational tools and skills combined with a social- business financial

arrangement for ownership of local businesses, which in turn enriches the community as a whole,

both economically and socially. This is Fair Trade in action and not simply rhetoric.


5. EMPOWERMENT OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES

Not only would investors quickly profit from floating commercial units such as hotels and

restaurants, but the local communities as well as 50 per cent of the turn over from these social

businesses would be invested and reinvested into the local economy. In this way, our initiative

greatly differentiates from that of other eco-resorts that pay only very low wages to local residents

as employees and retain the vast majority of turn-over or gains for themselves as is frequently

seen in typical so called sustainable tourism development programs that sadly resemble the

business models of “neo-colonialism” more than that of the practises of fair trade, social business

practises and the empowerment of local communities which is the objective of our initiative.


SUMMARY:

WAVE International brings tangible solutions for ecology, climate change challenges, sustainable

employment and affordable floating housing, adapted to the needs of wetlands areas and coastal

regions of the world.

Unlike other international projects, which describe in detail, concepts and ideas for positive

change, WAVE offers pragmatic and feasible answers in the form of actual construction of floating

homes, schools and training centres, workshops and factories, hospitals and clinics, restaurant and

hotels, theatres and cultural centres. This program will serve to advance the lives of those living in

remote and destitute areas of the world by bringing mainstream eco- tourism to them by working

together with local communities to build state of the art, solar, wind and sea energy, self powered

floating villages, made of local and renewable building materials from their very own mangrove

swamps, estuaries, bayous and bays.

We propose a program that is not only self financing in nature but one that can bring world

appreciation and ecological awareness and conservation to wetlands of the world which are

presently in danger. Our program takes seriously the threat of global warming and climate change.

Floating communities is the obvious answer to an increase of ocean storms and the rising of the

world’s oceans and seas levels.

Due to the end of the conventional and traditional form of employment in the world today, as well

as the depletion of the earth’s natural resources, such as petroleum, precious metals and even

clean water, it has become necessary to design and create new forms of employment and industry

such as sustainable tourism, to replace the former or existing types of industry that typically

exploits large amounts of employees to generate the wealth of very few industrialists while

polluting and destroying the ecology.

The populations of the world and the planet itself is crying out for a much needed change to the

forms of work, employment and industry as we know it. Economies all over the world are clearly

on the verge of collapse and in need of drastic modification. With intelligence and collaboration,

governments, policy makers and local communities can work together to both create jobs and save

the planet.

WAVE International is equipped and eager to implement such a social business model in the

wetlands of Java, Gabon and Central America in order to demonstrate a genuine working

sustainable tourism model that truly benefits the women, youth and men of the communities in

which it is created by means of training those people to build their own floating eco-touristic

villages and imparting essential trade and managerial skills to empower these communities to

control, own and thrive in their various businesses. WAVE will thereby provide the needed tools

for wetland communities to compete in the world today with a sustainable and ecologically

friendly economy. We have the know-how, the expertise and the heart to provide real solutions to

environmental and economic needs throughout the world today.


BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Floating Villages in the Media Today

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2013/03/floating_cities.html

“Floating cities as an answer to climate change

Over the last couple months winter storms have lashed the Massachusetts coastline, leading to flooding in Boston and

other low-lying towns. As the Globe reported, the storm surges have prompted Boston officials to recast the city's plans for dealing with rising sea levels. In that process, they might do well to look at similar planning taking place in a city with far more imminent water worries: Lagos, Nigeria.

On Monday the Harvard Gazette ran a story about Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi, who spoke at Harvard on March

7 about his ambition to create floating cities. Adeyemi's initiative is called the "African Water Cities Project," and as the Gazette explained, it "envisions a future in which modular coastal dwellings are built on platforms stacked with flotation devices."

That may sound like science fiction, but in fact it's already happening in Lagos, which sits flush with the Gulf of Guinea atop swampy terrain, and is among the world cities most threatened by climate change. Adeyemi's modular, floating city is inspired by makeshift dwellings used in a swampy slum neighborhood called Makoko, on the outskirts of Lagos. In Makoko, "Everything happens on water," Adeyemi told the Gazette: Residents row to market and travel by gondola between each other's houses, which are built on stilts. Adeyimi's design formalizes the bootstrap innovations found in

Makoko. His prototype structure, which was dedicated earlier this year, is the Makoko Floating School, a three-story, 720 square foot building built from wood and bamboo that floats atop recycled barrels.

There are innumerable reasons why a floating city might not work. Perhaps the most deep-seated among them was ex-pressed in the Gazette article by H.W.J. Ovink, an official in the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment in the Netherlands, another country preoccupied with rising sea levels. “We tried this in the Netherlands,” Ovink said of floating houses. “I hate to disappoint you. We have a culture of living with water, but it doesn’t mean we want to live on water."

Which, of course, is all well and good as long as there's still a choice.

- See more at:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2013/03/floating_cities.html#sthash.TyaeiAoT.dpuf


Floating Eco-Homes in the Netherlands

http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/floating-eco-homes-in-the-netherlands.html

Small and densely populated, the Netherlands is one of the countries most at risk from climate change

and rising sea levels. One Dutch construction company, Dura Vermeer, has developed homes that can

float with rising waters. Thirty-seven of these homes line the waterfront at Maasbommel, panelled in

blue, yellow and green. They have a hollow concrete cube at the base to give them buoyancy. The next

time the Meuse river bursts its banks, the house will rise with it (see video). Electricity and water are

pumped in through flexible pipes. In all, the houses can withstand a rise in the water table of up to 13ft.

At a starting price of 260,000 euros (£180,000 or $310,000), the houses are not a cheap option, but de-

mand is high. :: Gouden Kust via BBC News



Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation Un-veils Floating House

The Float House, designed by Morphosis Architects, is the latest design to be built by Brad Pitt's Make It Right

Foundation, which is helping families rebuild eco-friendly homes in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans.

Photo courtesy of Morphosis Architects.

It's like you're Noah and your house is an arc where people can take refuge from flood waters. Sound

crazy? Think again.

Brad Pitt's Make it Right Foundation unveiled the first Float House on Wednesday. The home,

designed by Morphosis Architects, basically turns into a giant raft in the event of flooding, rising up

on guide posts that keep it from floating away. To say that this design floats my boat is an understate-

ment; but there is one thing about it that my eco-heart can't love: The chassis that allows it to float has a

polystyrene core.Polystyrene is Eco-Friendly? According to an NPR interview with the designer,

the polystyrene core is covered by glass-reinforced concrete, but it's unclear whether the polystyrene is

completely contained, and if it isn't, there is the risk of off-gassing in the home--not great for the home-

owners. And what happens if the concrete coating cracks?

Polystyrene production also requires many harmful chemicals, including benzene, a known carcino-

gen and potent volatile organic compound, so it's not exactly a fantastically green or healthy option.

Benefits of a Floating Home While it may not be the greenest option, there are some important bene-

fits to this design.

If the area floods, the home will float upward, up to 12 feet, while a pair of guideposts keep the home

from floating away. In addition to creating a safe environment, the design prevents water damage and a

whole lot of waste. (For anyone who is worried about gas leaks and live electrical wires, there's a

break-off system to eliminate those risks, and the home can run on battery power for three days.)


While the other Make It Right homes are built up off the ground to keep people safe in future floods,

this home sits just one meter off the ground. The design eliminates the long flight of stairs up to the en-

trance, which can be difficult for the elderly and disabled persons. Another benefit of the low-to-the-

ground design is it helps bring back the street-level porches that were such an integral part of the Lower

9th Ward community, design director Thom Mayne told NPR:

How do you keep the sense of community and the continuity of the neighborhood, and at the same time

deal with this very extreme condition of the flooding? ... The vertical solution seemed to us one way to

solve it, but we thought we had a more interesting way, that we could keep the house on the ground.

The other great thing about this home is the building costs are quite low, so it's a great option as low-in-

come housing in flood-prone areas.

A Mostly Eco-Friendly Design that Saves Lives I'm still more of a fan of the homes on stilts, but for

families that include people who can't manage stairs, this is a great option that is still more eco-friendly

than most homes (and it's certainly greener than building another home again after another major

flood). But most importantly, it will save lives, says Mayne:

...it's thought of as a seatbelt; I mean hopefully it never gets used, but when it gets used, it's important.

More on Brad Pitt and the Make It Right Foundation How Brad Pitt Could Spark a Green

Building Revolution Brad Pitt Visits Congress with a Green House Agenda Brad Pitt's "Make

It Right" Unveils New Duplex Designs

Tags: Architecture | Brad Pitt | Buildings | Communities | Green Building | New Orleans

ANNEX


Examples of Similar sustainable tourism Programs from around the World and Eco

Tourism Organizations that Support Them

A1) the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC)

A2) Indonesian Tourism Project STREAM http://www.streamindonesia.org/

A3) CREST: Alternative Development Models and Good Practices for Sustainable Coastal

Tourism: A Framework for Decision Makers in Mexico

http://www.sustainable tourismconference.org/news/crest

A4) Global Marine Initiative, The Nature Conservancy, Jay Udelhoven, Senior Policy

Advisor, http://www.nature.org/


A1) the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC ) http://www.gstcouncil.org/

“Promoting the widespread adoption of global sustainable tourism standards to ensure the tourism industry

continues to drive conservation and poverty alleviation”

The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) serves as the international body for fostering increased

knowledge and understanding of sustainable tourism practices, promoting the adoption of universal

sustainable tourism principles and building demand for sustainable travel. This is accomplished through the

work executed by its diverse programs: http://www.gstcouncil.org/resource-center/gstc-approval-process-for-standards-and-certification-programs.html"standardsetting, destinations, education and training, market access, and accreditation.

At the heart of this work are the Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria and the development of

the GSTC Criteria for Destinations. These are the guiding principles and minimum requirements that

any tourism business or destination should aspire to reach in order to protect and sustain the world’s natural

and cultural resources, while ensuring tourism meets its potential as a tool for conservation and poverty

alleviation. Sustainability is imperative for all tourism stakeholders and must translate from words to actions.

http://www.gstcouncil.org/gstc-objectives/sustainability-education-a-training.html

PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE

The GSTC is committed to ensuring that sustainable tourism best practices are adopted and

implemented by the industry and the traveling public. The Education and Training Working Group is

tasked with developing and identifying the best available tools and resources to facilitate the transition

to sustainable practices.

OBJECTIVES:

•Provide education and training materials tailored to specific sectors, to help them implement

sustainable tourism using the GSTC criteria as the base.

•Provide educational resources to certification organizations to assist them in moving towards

accreditation.

•Ensure the Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria are integrated into the curricula of universities,

training schools and other programs.

•Build capacity amongst organizations promoting and selling tourism businesses, products and

services, to educate their customers about more sustainable travel options.


A2) Indonesian Tourism Project STREAM

Pangandaran, a popular coastal tourism destination in West Java province, Indonesia . vimeo.com/26758555

A3) CREST: Alternative Development Models and Good Practices for Sustainable Coastal Tourism:

A Framework for Decision Makers in Mexico

http://research.fit.edu/sealevelriselibrary/documents/doc_mgr/472/CREST._2012._Sustainable

_Coastal_Tourism_Models.pdf

A4) Global Marine Initiative, The Nature Conservancy, Jay Udelhoven, Senior Policy Advisor

http://www.mcatoolkit.org/pdf/Ecoresort_Partnership_Assessment_Final_V1.pdf

An Extensive List of Eco-Resorts around the Globe

Asia Pacific Region:

Fiji: Matava – Kadavu Island

Fiji: Moody’s Namena Resort –Namenalala Island

Fiji:Nakia Resort and Dive – Taveuni

Fiji: Palmlea Lodge and Bures – Vanua Levu

Kosrae: Kosrae Village Ecolodge and Dive Resort

Solomon Islands: Tetepare Island Ecolodge

Solomon Islands: The Wilderness Lodge –Gatokae Island

Indonesia: Alor Divers Eco Dive Resort – Alor Archipelago

Indonesia: Banyan Tree Bintan

Indonesia: Black MarlinDive Resort – Kandidiri Island, Sulawesi


Indonesia: EcoDivers –North Sulawesi

Indonesia: Gili Eco Villas –Gili Trawangan Island

Indonesia: Kri-Eco and Sorido Bay, Papua Diving – Raja Ampat

Indonesia: Misool Eco Resort – Batbitim Island/SE Misool

Indonesia: Nihiwatu Eco Lodge – Sumba Island

Indonesia: Nikoi Island

Indonesia: WakatobiDive Resort –Southeast Sulawesi

Malaysia: Gayana Eco Resort –Gaya Island

Malaysia: Lankayan Island Dive Resort

Philippines: Alegre Beach Resort and Spa – Cebu

Philippines: ElNido Resorts –Northern Palawan

Philippines: Sumilon Bluewater Island Resort – Sumilon Island

Western Indian Ocean:

Kenya:Diamond Beach Village – Manda Island

Madagascar: Chez Arol Ecolodge – Masoala National Park

Madagascar: Tsara Komba Lodge –Nosy Be Archipelago

Mozambique: Guludo Beach Lodge –Quirimbas National Park

Mozambique: Ibo Island Lodge –Quirimbas National Park

Mozambique: Vamizi Island

Seychelles: Bird Island Lodge

Seychelles: Cousine Island

Seychelles: Fregate Island

Seychelles:North Island

Tanzania: Chumbe Island Coral Park – Zanzibar

Tanzania: Matemwe Lodge – Zanzibar


Tanzania: Pole Pole – Mafia Island

Tanzania: Saadani Safari Lodge

Caribbean:

Aruba: Bucuti Beach Resort

Bahamas: Small Hope Bay Lodge – Andros Island

Bahamas: Tiamo – Andros Island

British Virgin Islands:Guana Island Resort –Guana Island

Grenada: KIDO Ecological Research Station

Trinidad and Tobago: Paria Springs Eco Community

U.S. Virgin Islands: Maho Bay Camps – St.John’s

Caribbean: Sandals Resorts International

South America:

Colombia: Estado Natural Ecolodge – San Bernardo del Viento

Ecuador: Finch Bay Eco Hotel –Galapagos

Ecuador: Red Mangrove Lodges

Central America:

Costa Rica: Arenas Del Mar Beach and Nature Resort

Costa Rica: Finca Exotica –Osa Peninsula

Costa Rica: La Cusinga –Uvita

Costa Rica: Lapa Rios –Osa Peninsula

Costa Rica: Latitude 10 Exclusive Beach Resort – Santa Teresa

Costa Rica: The Harmony Hotel –Nosara

Honduras: Mango Creek Lodge – Roatan, Bay Islands


Nicaragua: Morgan’s Rock Hacienda and Lodge – San Juan del Sur

Panama: Islas Secas – Islas Secas

Panama: Punta Caracol Aqua Lodge – Colon Island

North America:

Mexico: Baja Expeditions – Baja California

Mexico: Centro Ecologico Sian Ka’an – Tulum

Mexico: Sandos Caracol Eco Resort and Spa – Playa Del Carmen

Canada and U.S. (British Columbia and Alaska) King Pacific Lodge

U.S. (Alaska): Kachemak Bay Wilderness Lodge –Homer

U.S. (Alaska): Kenai Fjords Glacier Lodge – Seward

U.S. (Alaska): Sadie Cove Wilderness Lodge –Homer

U.S. (Georgia): Little St. Simons Islands

May 2013

Concept: John Venier

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