Fogo island, Canada
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Florian Guillaume: “Zita Cobb came home and turned hospitality into a way to keep her island alive.”
Zita Cobb grew up on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, a cod-fishing community devastated by the 1992 moratorium. She made a fortune in tech, then returned to build the Fogo Island Inn (rooms from $3,000/night) using traditional construction skills, with all profits flowing to the Shorefast Foundation. The model: radical hospitality as economic resilience. 100% of Inn profits fund community programs: artist residencies, skills transmission, education. Pioneered the concept of 'Business on Behalf of Pla
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