At APOLA, our mission is to unite and empower the Asia Pacific Outdoor Lodging community, fostering sustainable growth, innovation, and excellence in hospitality. We are dedicated to promoting responsible and immersive outdoor lodging experiences that harmonize with nature, elevate local economies, and enrich the lives of our guests.
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Louis, current Chair of APOLA, is the founder and CEO of Nomadic Resorts an award-winning architectural and landscape design office that has delivered innovative, outdoor hospitality projects across the planet since 2011.
Among their most recent work is Playa Viva treehouses in Mexico which won the Global Ahead Award 2022 for Cabins, lodges and tented camps and Wild Coast Tented Lodge in Sri Lanka which was voted Global Gamechanger at the 2020 Ahead Awards. The team has designed bespoke green building projects and tented camps for various luxury hotel groups including Soneva, Shangri-La, Banyan Tree, Playa Viva, Red Sea Global, Neom and Resplendent Ceylon.
Louis also founded Nomadic Escapes, a new outdoor hospitality management company creating, a series of biophilic, low-carbon tented camps in the Indian Ocean region for guests to enjoy healthy, outdoor adventure sports.
Following his hotel management studies in France, Louis was recruited by Six Senses Resorts and Spas in 2004 as a Permaculture consultant and became the group Director of Green Building and Sustainable Landscaping in 2008, a role in which he helped develop the group’s ground-breaking Sustainability practices.
Throughout his career he has worked at the cutting edge of green building and landscaping projects including ‘Fresh in the Garden’ the pioneering Farm to Fork treetop restaurant at Soneva Fushi, the Treetop Dining Pod at Soneva Kiri and the innovative bamboo treehouses at Playa Viva.
