Coco Palm Dhuni Kollhu of the Coco Collection has teamed up with Kind Traveler to provide meaningful vacations in the Maldives. Kind Traveler is the world’s first socially aware Give + Get hotel booking tool, empowering visitors to be more responsible during their trips and positively contribute to the places they visit.

Guests staying at Dhuni Kolhu will be able to obtain special discounts and advantages from curated Kind Hotels after contributing $10 or more to a local charity that has a significant impact on the community/destination they visited as part of this cooperation. Instead of giving locally, guests can donate to a charity of their choosing through the Kind Traveler platform, with 100% of the revenues going straight to charity. As a result, everyone benefits, including the traveler, the hotel, and the charity.

Guests at Coco Palm Dhuni Kolhu can contribute to the Olive Ridley Project, a marine conservation project that aims to conserve sea turtles and their habitats via rescue and rehabilitation, scientific research, and education and outreach. Sea turtles have historically experienced life-threatening injuries as a result of anthropogenic influences such as entanglement in marine debris, eating fishhooks, boat hits, and improper pet care.

Professional veterinarians must carefully nurture damaged sea turtles back to health in order to secure their survival in the future. As a result, Coco Pam Dhuni Kolhu is home to the Maldives’ first veterinarian-led turtle rescue center, which opened in 2017. The Olive Ridley Project Marine Turtle Rescue Centre, which includes a laboratory, x-ray and ultrasound machines, an endoscope, and surgical capabilities, has successfully released 107 turtles back into the wild since its inception.

A $10 donation to the Olive Ridley Project will assist fuel the charity’s basic goals, such as growing the breadth of its rescue and rehabilitation operations and increasing awareness of sea turtles under veterinarian care. Furthermore, travelers will profit from the gift by unlocking exceptional prices as a reward, all while having the satisfaction of making an eco-conscious and sustainable option when traveling.

Apart from providing a plethora of benefits to tourists, Kind Traveler also highlights each property in a meaningful light by connecting the traveler with the local community impact opportunity and its ‘Kind Factors’. Kind factors are measures implemented by the hotel to enhance individual wellbeing, sustainability, and community impact on the property. By exhibiting the hotel profile in this manner, it emphasizes a commitment to social responsibility at a time when modern travelers and customers place a high value on transparency.

Several notable Kind Factors may be seen on the site of Coco Palm Dhuni Kolhu, ranging from environmental efforts to local empowerment. To reduce the use of single-use plastic, the resort includes an in-house water purification and glass bottling factory, as well as its own organic Chef’s Garden, where fresh vegetables is produced and gathered. Furthermore, coral gardening operations to revive and propagate injured corals are well underway at the house reef. Similarly, because the resort is known to be a green sea turtle nesting place, a resident Marine Biologist and the Olive Ridley Project preserve and monitor nests until hatchlings arrive. In terms of community development, the resort employs local resources and displays Maldivian craftwork, including traditional crafts such as Maldivian lacquer work, supporting local communities and the rich culture of the Maldives.