Katawud Village & Kottages is a Maroon family-owned and managed eco-tourism enterprise located in the Maroon community of Ginger House in the Rio Grande Valley in the Blue & John Crow Mountains National Park – a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Portland parish, Jamaica. The company was created to stem the decline of our Maroon heritage, encourage environment conservation while providing a sustainable and viable source of income for the community. Katawud Village & Kottages therefore provides an alternative to the typical kind of tourism and development that leads to environmental degradation and loss of cultural identity.