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To:
The Directors
Survival International
From:
Samit Sawhny
Managing
Director, Barefoot Resorts
18 June 2009
The following document is an official response to the flawed and defamatory press release issued by Survival International against Barefoot Resorts.
Barefoot Resorts has a proud record of Sustainable development in the Andaman Islands (reiterated within this document in Section 2.3) and takes great offence to the libelous action of Survival International, reminds it of its duty of care to all stakeholders and asks it to, as a matter of courtesy and propriety, provide an apology to Barefoot and a retraction.
INDEX OF CONTENTS
Section 1: Factual Inaccuracies in Survival International’s Press Release
Section 2: Barefoot’s Position on the Subjective aspects of the Press Release
Section 3: Substantiation of Barefoot’s claims that ‘sustainable and socially responsible tourism development’ is core to its philosophy”
Section 4: Chronological Sequence of events
Section 5: Summary of Barefoot’s disagreement with the Andaman Administration: Ground realities of our fight against a bullying system
Appendix I – Google Earth Location of Barefoot’s resort vis a vis the Tribal Reserve (3.2 kms away)
Appendix II – Tourism and commercial activity at other locations in Andaman Islands with proximity to the Tribal Reserve: A single – location example of Baratang
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