How Tourists help to keep Loch Ness beautiful
Destination Loch Ness have launched a Voluntary Payback Scheme (VPS) for raising funds to help keep Loch Ness beautiful and encourage responsible travel. The scheme is dependant on local businesses collecting funds for local projects, who better to do this than locals?
Visitors and others have the opportunity to contribute to the scheme through a number of forward thinking businesses around Loch Ness who are acutely aware of the special beauty and environmentally precious nature of the area. They want to improve visitor experience by improving the infrastructure and the same time preserve natural beauty of the landscape around Loch Ness for all to enjoy.
Here’s how you can help.
When you book accommodation at Loch Ness or buy tickets to a local event or attraction, you might see an option to add £1 to your bill. Please – for just £1 – go for it ! Your money will be used to fund projects like the Loch Ness Trail and other environmental projects that will help keep Loch Ness beautiful for future generations to come. One of the accommodation providers to take up the VPS ”donate a £1” scheme is Evergreen B&B, based at Inverfarigaig, a hub for walking on South Loch Ness and a key ‘access point’ to the trail.
Based on the experience of Evergreen, the owner Graeme said, “it is very encouraging just how much visitors are willing to contribute. It demonstrates that most people these days understand that enhancing and protecting our environment is a worthy cause”.
Here’s how you can help even more!
If you book a holiday or even at Loch Ness and you are NOT asked to “donate a £1” ask WHY NOT or add a comment to instruct that business to take the extra £1 and send it to Destination Loch Ness. Everybody round Inverness and Loch Ness knows who DLN is!