The author with Susan Santos de Cardenas (right)
I first met Susan Santos de Cardenas when we were co-panelists in a MICE (the Tourism kind) conference in Cebu two years ago. She shared with me her experience in maintaining sustainable resorts in Peru called Inkaterra. There, they consult stakeholders before building the first hut, hotel or lodge in the forest. She told me about “carrying capacity” or holding capacity of an area, so that the ecosystem will not be altered.