Design Guidelines for Sustainable Eco-Resort in Ngapali Beach
This research aims to provide guidelines for eco-resort that has designed and built with sustainable manners in Ngapali Beach.In recent years, numbers of hotel and resort capacities have been growing increasingly. This growth affects the negative impacts on the environment such as lack of public land and arrangement of hotels, blocking free access to beach and poor waste management system. We have the responsibility to maintain and promote the sustainability of our environment where we live in.
Therefore, the research aims to solve the problems related to the environmental impact affected by the development of hotel zones in Ngapali beach by promoting Green practices in hotels and resorts. The importance of Green hotels and resorts for the sustainable coastal areas, evolution of Green buildings and rating system in Myanmar will be studied. The study will focus the literature review on ASEAN Green hotel standards, MNBC Green guidelines and Orders for sustainable coastal areas published by the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism, Myanmar. The ASEAN Green awarded resorts selected to be studied are as follows;
(1) Amazing Ngapali resort,
(2) Aureum Palace resort,
(3) Sandoway resort and
(4) Amata resort.
These award-wining resorts will be studied on the eco-features and use of green products of these resorts in comparison with the criteria of ASEAN Green hotel standards by making case studies. The compliance rates of these selected resorts with the orders for sustainable coastal areas will also be studied. Finally, this research will provide the understanding of basic architectural design requirements useful for the Green practices of resorts which can minimize the negative impacts on the environment of Ngapali beach.
