Agoda.com, Asia’s leading hotel booking site, yesterday released its annual shortlist of eco-friendly hotels, which included Nature’s Village Resort in Negros Occidental.

“We love the Philippines and we love the Negros market. Proof of our love for Negros is the inclusion of Nature’s Village Resort in our international list of top ten eco hotels for 2012,” Nico Marco, Agoda PR team leader, told the DAILY STAR.

With the dramatic peak of Mt. Marapara as a backdrop, Nature’s Village Resort has a lot to live up to. Thankfully, it does just that with its focus on the promotion of sustainable practices and efforts to educate guests on green tourism and their impact on the environment – a practice that resulted in the hotel’s nomination for an ASEAN Green Hotel Recognition Award in 2010, he said.

Organic vegetables from the garden are used in cooking, and the interior of the hotel is decorated with reclaimed supplies from around the region, he added.

The nine others on Agoda.com’s list of this year’s ten notable eco-friendly hotels are: Six Senses Ninh Van Bay in Vietnam; URBN Hotel in Shanghai, China; Alto Hotel on Bourke in Melbourne, Australia; Borneo Highlands Resort in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia; Philea Resort and Spa, Ayer Keroh in Melaka, Malaysia; Bangkok Tree House in Bangkok, Thailand; The Tongsai Bay in KoSamui, Thailand; Casa Camper in Barcelona, Spain; and The Park New Delhi Hotel in New Delhi, India.

“Hotels that once considered ‘eco-friendly’ to mean a small environmental footprint and conservation of resources are now taking things a step further, cleaning up trash, investing in best-practices, actually improving the sustainability of the communities that surround them,” said Robert Rosenstein, CEO of Agoda.com. “Whether in big cities or remote resort islands, our customers love these eco-friendly resorts,” he added.

Agoda Company Pte Ltd (Agoda.com) is an Asia-based, online hotel reservations company, which specializes in securing the lowest discount hotel prices, Marco said.

Agoda.com is part of Priceline.com (Nasdaq:PCLN) and its network includes more than 200,000 hotels worldwide, he added.

He also said agoda.com customers participate in the agoda.com Rewards Program, earning further discounts and free stays. Unlike programs that limit travelers to a single chain, the agoda.com Rewards Program allows customers to redeem Rewards Points at thousands of hotels around the globe, at any time. Marco said.*CPG

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