The 10 Most Sustainable Hotels in Peru
For an Ethical and Sustainable Stay in Peru.
A Sustainability Ranking in partnership with ETIC Hotels
You’re planning a trip to Peru and you’re trying to be as ethical and sustainable as possible?
niood lists you the 10 most sustainable hotels in Peru:
1. Inkaterra Reserva Amazonica
Puerto Maldonado, Peru
From $450 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Inkaterra Reserva Amazonica sustainable?
- Definition and respect of authentic cultural, social and environmental values
- Creation of professional development opportunities
- Encouragement of recruitment and training of local staff
- Development of an ideal work environment providing better living conditions
- Development of activities in accordance with current legislation
- Development of contingency plans for natural, social or financial disasters
- Raising awareness within partners, travelers and locals on the conservation of the environment
- Usage of environmentally friendly products, maintenance and good communication with suppliers
- Efficient usage of energy and water, and provision of adequate waste treatment
- Development of continuous improvement in our management and process controls by minimizing negative impacts
2. Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel
Aguas Calientes, Peru
From $500 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Inkaterra Machu Picchu sustainable?
- Usage of environmentally friendly products, maintenance and good communication with suppliers
- Efficient usage of energy and water, and provision of adequate waste treatment
- Development of continuous improvement in our management and process controls by minimizing negative impacts.
- Identification of the positive and negative effects generated by human action
- Offset the greenhouse gas emissions generated by the organization’s operations in order to be carbon neutral.
- Being a replicable business model of low initial cost and high positive impact on local populations
- Belief that conservation is achieved through the sustainable use of natural resources
- Development of strategies to protect and restore ecosystems
- Encouragement of the development of local communities
3. EcoAmazonia Lodge
Puerto Maldonado, Peru
From $180 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes EcoAmazonia Lodge sustainable?
Eco Amazonia Lodge, located two hours from Puerto Maldonado navigating Madre de Dios river, an Ecological 11856.1ac Reserve within the rainforest in the heart of Amazon paradise in Tambopata, Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru. Few places in the world nature shows so magical conjugation of a vibrant forest, winding rivers, huge swamps, forming lush sustainable ecosystems aguajales, this is why Puerto Maldonado is known as the capital of the Biodiversity of Peru.
Alluvial forests make the area protected by Eco Amazonia Lodge, a tourism project which aims to bring together the visitor with nature.
4. Skylodge Adventure Suites
Cusco, Peru
From $450 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Skylodge Adventure Suites sustainable?
Eco friendly Attitude; please recycle bottles, we provide the water you bring the bottle.
5. Maniti Expeditions Amazon Eco-Lodge & Tours
Iquitos, Peru
From $60 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Maniti Expeditions Amazon sustainable?
The private bungalows are constructed of secondary growth rainforest materials which blend into the surrounding and make it feel like you’re really apart of the Amazon.
6. Colca Lodge Spa & Hot Springs
Valle del Colca, Arequipa, Peru
From $130 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Colca Lodge Spa & Hot Springs sustainable?
Organic fabrics like the pure linen of the curtains and bedding.
7. Refugio Amazonas
Puerto Maldonado, Peru
From $120 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Refugio Amazonas sustainable?
Here at Rainforest Expeditions, we are deeply committed to sustainability. Sustainability is at the core of our company and we try to reduce our footprint wherever we can:
- We use water and energy efficiency systems
- We use local building materials
- We work and partner with the local community
- We protect and conserve the forest in the Tambopata National Reserve through various initiatives and our eco-tourism company
The shelters use as their main source of energy a combination of solar energy with a first-generation generator, the generator, and the main power generation equipment are in specially insulated houses to avoid any disturbance or sound, it is measured annually with the sound level meter to guarantee that there is no undesirable effect with this equipment. This system allows us to have 24 hours of power, although we are not allowed to use hair dryers, irons, or other high consumption that can affect the system.
8. Gocta Andes Lodge
Cocachimba, Peru
From $120 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Gocta Andes Lodge sustainable?
We prioritize the hiring of local staff and their job training. About 90% of the staff at Gocta Lodge are from the Valera district or from neighboring provinces. This represents a quality employment opportunity in a region where there have traditionally been no job offers.
We promote fair trade with the exhibition and sale of crafts from local and regional people. You can purchase the products at the reception or, on specified dates, at the weaving fairs we carry out in our gardens.
At Gocta Andes Lodge we are proud to have the seal of the German certifier TourCert, which demonstrates our good practices of environmental sustainability and social responsibility. We have placed special emphasis on the rational use of water and electricity, the reduction in the use of plastics, especially those for single use, the rotation of sheets and towels appealing to the sensitivity of the guest and respect for the native flora and fauna.
9. Pacaya Samiria Amazon Lodge
Nauta, Peru
From $500 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Pacaya Samiria Amazon Lodge sustainable?
Pacaya Samiria Amazon Lodge (PSAL) promotes the socioeconomic development of local communities, and the conservation of the Amazon forest, both pillars of our ecotourism activities. Since it began its operations, PSAL works hand in hand with the communities in the vicinity and the neighboring lodges inside and outside the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve. It looks for and creates joint opportunities that encourage local communities to implement positive natural resource management.
We protect our own 130 hectares of forests, taking care of the biological corridor of fauna originated by species affected and displaced by the growth of the communities who inhabit in the Reserve’s buffer zone. We hire the services of local guides within the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve. All of them take part in management groups recognized by the SERNANP; this payment contributes to their livelihood during the low seasons when they have to wait for income from the exploitation of fishing resources and palms.
10. Eco Lodge
Máncora, Peru
From $60 per night
ETIC Hotels Green Score: 9.5/10
What makes Eco Lodge Mancora sustainable?
You can visit our bio-garden and goat stable.We recycle nearly all of our waste, have solar thermal appliances for all showers, use our grey waters to water the plants around the bungalows and apply many other eco-friendly practices.
