Dominica named ‘top Caribbean ecotourism destination’

The Fresh Water Lake. Photo by Daryl Durand

Dominica’s ‘greenness’ has once again attracted international attention with ShermanTravel naming the island as its top “Caribbean ecotourism destination.”

This comes on the heels of Yahoo! Travel naming the island among 10 countries branded the “world’s best tropical destinations both near and far”.

In describing Dominica the ShermanTravel article stated, “….combined with some of the Caribbean’s best diving, and most pristine rainforests – where superb hiking trails lead to an eerie boiling lake, gorgeous waterfalls, and more – are what make the island such an ecotourist haven. It’s especially easy being green here since, at the end of the day, you can ease your tired muscles in the island’s natural hot springs and stay in secluded rainforest lodges, suffused by the sounds of the jungle.”

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45 Comments

  1. TR
    April 4, 2011

    Good, wonderful news. Now let us have great costumer service all around this lovely island. Make people yearn to visit – sweet, lovely and green Dominica, over and over again.

  2. Eyes on Dominica
    April 4, 2011

    Great news but this still does not translate to increased tourist arrivals and visitor spending. It’s one thing to boast our island as the ideal Eco-Tourism Destination but it’s another when we cannot turn that into serious Dollars and Cents… and our trained workers have to migrate to the British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Saint Maarten, etc… to find work in the Tourism Industry over there

  3. Olivia WIlliams
    April 3, 2011

    The new trend is ecotourism…now is the time to build up eco-friendly accommodations and empower individuals in the tourism sector with sustainable guidelines within their operations…..The future is very promising for Dominica.

  4. Truth, Justice, Love, Peace and Unity
    April 3, 2011

    This makes me homesick indeed and proud to have been born and brought up in Dominica! I always love my country Dominica.
    DNO and photographer if you keep this up you will have many of us yearning to pack our bags and return to our beautiful island of Dominica. :lol:
    We are aware of the beauty of Dominica but seeing this beautiful picture, I state: “WOW! What beauty! Sweet Dominica!”
    As a young child in elementary school, we went on an educational outing to the Fresh Water Lake. I have not returned to that area. If the Good Lord wills when I return for a visit, hopefully, soon enough and I spend ample time, I would love to visit it again and other areas of Dominica that I have not yet visited.
    How many resident Dominicans really appreciate this beauty and visit those sites; wallow and bath in the water, hot/warm water, view the sulphur springs, etc? Life is short and time flies and waits for no one.
    Schools arrange educational outings for the students if you do not.
    Adults, arrange such outings and picnics.
    Life is not made up of only work but also fun, good and clean fun.
    Enjoy life in Dominica, what God has bestowed on Dominica and given to you for your enjoyment, the beauty of Dominica, land of rivers, beauty and glorious sunshine.
    If those who reside in Dominica did so as often as they possibly could they would experience joy, happiness, peace and tranquility which they would generate to others. What goes around comes around.
    It is too bad that we who are overseas cannot be in two places at the same time. Nevertheless, we are present in spirit until we visit.
    God bless Dominica and everyone who resides in Dominica.

  5. shatta
    April 3, 2011

    dominica is loveing

  6. de caribbean change, BBA, MBA, CPA
    April 2, 2011

    Lovely Dominica, land where the rivers flow, wouldn’t you come and stay a while, in beautiful D o m i n i c a.

  7. EQUAL RIGHTS
    April 1, 2011

    DOMINICA IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND IN THE WORLD.WE DO NOT NEED ANY MORE WILD LIFE THAN WHAT THE LORD GAVE US. GOD LOOKED AT DOMINICA AND HE SAID WELL DONE .HE SMILED AND SMILED AGAIN TAP HIMSELF ON THE BACK AND SAID WELL DONE .

    BUT HE LOOK DOWN AND SEE WHAT POLITICIAN ARE TRYING TO DO TO IT ,HE DOES BE SO ASHAME .BUT HE DONT READY TO GIVE US UP .HE IS STILL STRIVING WITH US .THANKS TO ALL WHO VISIT DOMINICA AND SEE IT FOR WHAT IT IS .LOVE YOU ALL.

  8. cameron
    April 1, 2011

    we not bad u know

  9. . Slave 10 th. Grandson
    April 1, 2011

    It nice to hear it from de outside, but most of us with common sense know that. Now what we have to do is go out there and enjoy Dominica, go hike the trail or visit senic sports like on a weekend. We spend too much time listening to people with fancy talks that just confuse us.it would be so much better to listen to nature than man, it would make things much easier to understand.

  10. DESIE
    April 1, 2011

    AND WHEN DEM LEADERS TALKING BOUT TOURIST DESTINATION ALLU VEX

  11. stupes
    April 1, 2011

    Keep telling them about it, so that they can destroy it, so that our grandchildren may not have it to enjoy

  12. DA MASSIVE
    April 1, 2011

    YEAH YEAH YEAH…………Thats My Country DOMINICA………….I Love U………….There’s No Other Like U…………..Nature and Beauty At Its Best…………..DOMINICA!!!!!!!!

  13. Sphynx
    April 1, 2011

    La Dominique: poumon de la caraibe.

  14. Sphynx
    April 1, 2011

    Dominica and DNO you are the top of the cream!!

  15. Juny
    April 1, 2011

    Dominica only ranked #8 on the list? I thought DA was the most tropical place on earth.

    • LawieBawie
      April 1, 2011

      Where have you people read that Dominica has an 8th place rankin? If you look at the list you will see that it was prepared in alphabetical order with the 7 countries listed ahead of us beginning with the letters ‘A’ through ‘C’. We are ‘D’.

    • Cerberus
      April 2, 2011

      If you read the article you will see that is is the :”top pick for Caribbean ecotourism”. Let’s try and keep it that way…we certainly don’t need more foreign operated quarries that pollute and contribute hardly anything to the national treasury.

  16. A very proud Dominican
    April 1, 2011

    hello Dominicans have you seen what number we were? 8 i mean and we were the only Caribbean island. And Dominica is so small. I am proud despite any faults we may have.
    And can someone please tell that tiny person to shut up if they don’t have anything better to say. God you making us educated Dominicans look stupid like you are. i don’t think you were educated here. If you were i don’t think you were going to school to learn.
    But all in all i am proud of my country.

    • The German Lover.
      April 1, 2011

      it was placed in alphabetical order

    • wesleyman
      April 2, 2011

      You all are ever so proud of your country (the land that you had nothing to do with) but the people who truly make up the country, you criticize every chance you get to try to make yourself lok better. God made Dominica the way it is, if it were for Dominicans it would look just like their nasty attitude. Until Dominicans begin to respect each other and accept the fact that people will have differing views from yours, all you will have is a beautiful island with a whole set of negative people, and while people will come for the beauty of the island, they will run away from the negativity of it’s people.

  17. Anonymous
    April 1, 2011

    lovely picture love dominica

  18. Stupudity reigns again
    April 1, 2011

    I will say that there is no place like Dominica in the entire world. I have been to countless countries and it not just because I am from here but my heart is attached to this place, there is no place like Dominica, Our only problem here is the Political Bias and constant dragging of politics into everything, besides that we are good, I remember the days back when we used to Love each other and look out for each other, right now we a plagued by Moral Decay with all this television influence and increase in Drug use. May God guide us all to the straight path.

  19. Anonymous
    April 1, 2011

    I am proud of Dominica it sure is beautiful and we believe that.
    To all you uneducated fools posting negative comments I say get a hobbie and a life.
    I truly feel embarassed when I read some of these comments. People understand it is not only Dominicans who read the news on line and you are doing those proud and productive Dominicans grave injustice. If you have nothing good to write do us a favor and write nothing. I am compelled to say that because as a Dominican leaving abroad I find we as a people can do better than that. Let’s rise above all this negativity and become positive and productive Dominicans and make me proud by writing only pleasant comments next time I accidentallyscroll comments through this section
    grow up guys

    • wysiwyg
      April 1, 2011

      Great point Anonymus, but although DNO is doing a great job overall, its moderators should be the ones filtering the crap we see in the “comments” section.
      p.s. I am also a Dominican living abroad.
      One Love

    • . Slave 10 th. Grandson
      April 1, 2011

      Man it so sad ,you won’t believe it,so many of us like to talk before we think, it stinks.we lucky because if half of us could write as well as we speak, boy there would be more sh*t on dno, but is the spelling that keeping us in check. Otherwise man hmm.

  20. Dominican in the BVI
    April 1, 2011

    this is indeed so lovely, missing it so much cant wait to move back home,

  21. Precious
    April 1, 2011

    This is just great news!! This Island is blessed and we need to appreciate this precious gem. We are getting recognition from top agencies and organizations and this is good news. Let us all come together putting all our differences behind us and move this beautiful island to the next level.

  22. CHAVEZ, EL COMANDANTE EN JEFE
    April 1, 2011

    ISLE OF BEAUTY, ISLE OF SPLENDOUR, GOD BLESS MY ISLAND, COUNTRY, MY HOME, TE AMO DOMINICA, DIOS TE BENDIGA.

  23. WIKILEAKS
    April 1, 2011

    I am so happy for Dominca, I am gonna hug everybody I see in Dominica today….this is just an amazing island….LOVE IT

  24. britt
    April 1, 2011

    dominica will never comprehend the extent to which she’s blessed…

  25. Hod Kai Che
    April 1, 2011

    Yes-I, ecotourism is the key to developing our tourism sector. Big up Dominica! Yes we are the greenest! Our tourism offer is unique, but it is our people that make Dominica a tourism experience unlike any other. God bless Dominica and her people.

  26. negre marwon
    April 1, 2011

    There is still a problem with garbage on the island especially on the bayside
    and beaches.

    • Stupudity reigns again
      April 1, 2011

      This is true and it is a serious problem that we should address, if we are going to call our island the nature island then we need to do our part by not littering and finding ways and means of proper garbage disposal.

    • The German Lover.
      April 1, 2011

      well atleast it’s cleaner than most countries I have been too….

  27. tiny
    April 1, 2011

    but there is no wildlife in dominica

    • tiny
      April 1, 2011

      what’s with all these dislikes. do we have wildlife? well if you not including crabs and house lizards, we don’t even have birds.
      and ecotourism includes wildife as well

      • Anonymous
        April 1, 2011

        no birds?? Hummingbirds, parrots to name a couple..

      • eagles125
        April 1, 2011

        Your comment about Dominica is very discontending. What about the Sisserou Parrot. the Jaco parrot. the hawks, the opposum, the boa constrictor are they not wild life?

        There is no pleasing you people. You shoud be grateful for what God blessed Dominica with. Instead of bring down the country why do not you build it up. I think if you will not because the only thing you people know is how to give negative, comment

      • Stupudity reigns again
        April 1, 2011

        Are you sane or are you sleep typing, wake up and type something that makes sense, also educate yourself about Dominica because my Daughter is not yet even in Pre school and she knows Dominica has wildlife…What do you call a Parrot, Manicou, Agouti, Humming Bird, Sikiyay, Pipirit, Gwo Beck, and the List goes on and on plus all the Wild life that are Endemic to the Nature Island. Please educate yourself before you come here and Express your “TINY” Brain.

      • Homeboy
        April 1, 2011

        What is your def of wildlife? Lizards, birds, snake, agouti, manitou, crapaud, Parrots.. Etc.. Get my drift. Wildlife does not only involve lions and tigers..etc

      • cash
        April 1, 2011

        are you an idoit, what do mean we dont have wild life, you should happy we don’t have lions,tigers and cobras etc, dominica and the its people are bless

      • okay
        April 1, 2011

        what type of wild life are you looking for each country has something that is there own arn’t our agouti.manicou,snakes lizards and wild pig wild enough for you be happy that we have been recognised for something good.be thankful that we do not have poisonous creatures.yes we still have a lot of work to do but with this type of publicity there is hope of more cash flow through tourism that can aid in dealing with some of the problem .

        i could not be happier fo D/a big up!

      • The German Lover.
        April 1, 2011

        Do you even no what wild life is?… we have some of the rarest animals in the caribbean and yet we do not have wild life?….wierd

      • The German Lover.
        April 1, 2011

        Lol i like dat “we don’t even have birds”…. Amazing then we have soucouyants flying in the day

    • Vieux Negre
      April 1, 2011

      hey tiny,

      does your name give an indication of the size of your brain?

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