Publication: Meeting the Experts for Surinam
Friday 16 January 2009 - Sustainable Hospitality, Wellness & Spa is of paramount importance on Landgoed Groot Mariënbosch in Surinam. Therefore we choose people with great ability in this field.
Besides sustainable hospitality, wellness & spa, other elements within our `Papatya` concept are also vital such as sustainable:
- forestry
- aqua culture
- agriculture
- cattle breeding
- education
- energy
Above all we have chosen quality. For that reason we have selected a group of experts on different disciplines. Names given on "shuffle replay":
- ing. Deryck Ferrier (community development, forestry, agri & aqua culture)
- drs. Pieter Teunissen (nature conservation, agriculture, animal husbandry, fishery, forestry)
- ir. Dirk Noordam (soil science, agriculture, animal husbandry)
- Saoed Abdoelrahman (community development, operations, logistics)
- mr. Albert Soedamah (legal affairs, agriculture)
- Johan van Toll (IT and video communications)
- Sirano Toscanni Zalman (Surinam culture, ecology, travel & lodging)
- Femke Loning (shipping & catering)
- ing. Marcel Meijer (civil technics, land & water management)
- mr. Marcel Persad (finance & aquaculture)
- Mariette van Dijck (aquaculture)
- ir. Reshmi Oemrawsingh (ecology, landscaping & architecture)
- ir. Aimée de Back (historical research, architecture)
- ir. Christian Smith (landscaping, architecture)
- Rob de Jong & Patrick Teunissen (sustainable catering & lodging),
- Claire Antonius (sustainable conferencing & lodging)
- Marie-Claire Aarts (wellness & spa)
Within this still growing group, a smaller Surinam Think Tank has been chosen, directed by drs. Marije van Zomeren of 100% Zomer bv, , coordinated in Surinam by mr. Marcel Persad.
Marije and I have met many people involved in these matters on so many locations both in Surinam and in The Netherlands. Further interested ? Please go to our album in "Photography" as a tribute to all the people mentioned above who made this happen.