Town Hall of Callosa d'en Sarria. De Amicitia have been collaborating with this local partner for many years. Since recent years the town hall is developing a policy of sustainable tourism which includes the recuperation of deprived environmental areas and cultural heritage.
İş Tanımı
The Callosa Tourism Lab follows a hybrid approach to rural development, combining intensive manual labor with the strategic digitalization of sustainable tourism. In collaboration with the Town Hall, volunteers act as active contributors to the Fonts del Río Algar natural area, balancing physical conservation with the implementation of modern tools to manage high-impact tourism.
Key responsibilities include:
Manual Environmental Action: Direct maintenance of the Arboretum and the river’s natural surroundings. This includes clearing over-grown vegetation, weeding, and removing waste from footpaths to restore and preserve the trails.
Strategic Visibility & Digital Implementation: A core part of the project involves social media content creation specifically designed to visualize and implement sustainable tourism. Volunteers will also participate in visitor flow analysis and digital mapping to help manage the site's environmental impact.
Proactive Workshops for Outreach: Volunteers, guided by their campleaders, are responsible for designing and leading their own workshops. These sessions are focused on increasing the visibility of the project’s environmental goals. This requires a high degree of proactivity, as the team will develop these initiatives, alongside creative projects like murals or recycled art, to promote a more resilient and sustainable tourism model.
Konaklama ve Yemek
Volunteers will stay in a basic rural house located directly above the Tourism Office, a few kilometers from the village center. It features shared rooms, showers, and toilets. Mattresses are provided, but bringing your own bed sheets and a summer sleeping bag is mandatory.
Food is provided by De Amicitia. All meals are prepared collectively by volunteers in organized shifts under the guidance of the campleaders.
Important: Please be aware that during the summer, weather conditions can be very demanding due to extremely high temperatures.
Konum ve Serbest Zaman
The municipality is located in the province of Alicante, in the northern part of the Marina Baixa region, 10 km from the coast and 42 km from the city of Alicante.
Algar Waterfalls at only 15 km from Benidorm and 3 km from the center of Callosa. This area was declared a Wetland protected by the Valencian Government. It is a park about the importance of water as an environmental resource, economical and cultural. The visit is a route through a circuit of 1.5 km in length along, where you can walk through the bed of the river Algar, see the spectacular waterfalls and the numerous sources, the "tolls" (pools of water) where you can take refreshing swims in crystal clear water, the old dam, the imposing century-old canal and ditches still in use.
Apart from the Waterfalls, there are other interesting sites in Callosa like the cultural heritage of the town, old narrow streets in the center. Also, there are several beautiful hiking routes around Callosa. One of the most spectacular places is El Fort de Bèrnia.
Not far from Callosa, you can visit a town called Guadalest which has an ancient castle. Also, Altea, another beautiful town near the sea can be visited. The beach is not far from the house and somedays, the volunteers can take a trip to the beach of Altea.
Notlar
Volunteers are highly recommended to bring their own devices (tablets or laptops) to assist with the digitalization of sustainable tourism and the design of their workshops. However, to foster team bonding and focus, the use of devices is not permitted during physical work hours in the natural area. We prioritize a digital detox during manual labor to ensure a full connection with the environment and the group.
