Community-based Tourism

Community-based tourism or Eco-tourism that supports conservation and development is a rapidly growing field. Click on the links below to learn more about community-based tourism and ideas for training. And please send in any suggested links.

 

 

Community-based Tourism for Conservation and Development: A Training Manual (2003). This is the complete RECOFTC training manual.

The manual contains the following sections (all links are pdf files):

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Setting the Context
  3. Concepts and Principles
  4. Participation
  5. Appreciative Participatory Planning and Action
  6. Participatory Tools and Facilitation Skills
  7. Discovery, Dreams, Design and Delivery
  8. Optional Sessions
  9. Annexs