Spot On: Dimitri Klein is the founder of India’s most successful eco hotel - The Dune in Pondicherry.

The Frenchman came to India in 2004 and lived for four years in Auroville, before realizing his first mega project, followed by the second Eco Hotel Elephant Valley. Dimitri is forging new grounds for the eco-tourism industry in Asia by proving that ecological and sustainable resorts can be both cool and comfortable. Using only local and organic produce, reverse-cycle air conditioners, and solar hot water heating amongst other things, Klein’s 35 acre property on India’s steamy Coramandel Coast uses a third of the energy as compared to a similar sized non eco-resort.