This Tourism Voices collection explores how Civil Society Orgaisations in communities worldwide experience tourism and how they expect it to benefit local development
Tanzania, Longido — Cultural Tourism Programme
The tourism project splits every shilling by an agreed formula, and even the guesthouse owner who manages it can't discount a room without calling a village meeting first.
Read more →The Netherlands, Achterhoek
Most visitors to the Achterhoek's nature reserves are careful and curious. It's the mountain bikers — riding off-trail, no bell in sight — who keep her organisation busy explaining the same rules again and again.
Read more →Tanzania, Lushoto
Teachers on a half-finished teachers' house, a school that still needs a typewriter, and children who dream in clothes they can't afford.
Read more →The Netherlands, Achterhoek
A leader in the local Turkish community on tourists as welcome guests, new shops and a swimming pool the town didn't have before — and a tradition of hospitality, he says, that's far older than tourism itself.
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