Hotel Mockingbird Hill

Port Antonio, Jamaica — Jamaica’s best kept secret, Hotel Mockingbird Hill was internationally recognized when the hotel won the ‘Best Accommodation for the Environment’ category at the 2010 Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards at London’s Docklands at the World Travel Market. Mockingbird Hill has been an environmentally and socially friendly operation from the outset. In 1998, the hotel was one of the first four hotels worldwide to be Green Globe certified. It won the Caribbean Hotel Association’s prize for the most environmentally friendly small hotel in the Caribbean twice consecutively. The hotel was selected by Travel & Leisure as one of the world’s top 20 environmentally friendly hotels and was also selected in the ‘Pioneers for Prosperity’ competition in 2009 as the only tourism entity in Jamaica for an honourable mention for their proactive role in the area of eco-tourism. Mockingbird Hill was cited as a best practice case study at a presentation made by the Caribbean Environmental Health Institute (CEHI) during the 17th Annual Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of the Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Panama in April 2010.