Resources and Links
Resources
- Community-Based Tourism Toolkit: A Toolkit for Monitoring and Managing Community-Based Tourism
- English / Vietnamese
This toolkit published in 2007 is designed to provide readers with the know-how to set up and run a monitoring programme for a community-based tourism project. It gives step-by-step guidelines, supported by a wide range of case studies, to enable readers to embark on their own monitoring project.
- Community-Based Tourism Booklet - English / Vietnamese
To create a better understanding of community-based tourism, this booklet presents five case studies of community-based tourism projects in Vietnam. The descriptions of the cases are based on a series of interviews and presentations that were held before and during a two-day community-based tourism workshop in Hanoi in May 2003. Part 1 outlines the workshop and discusses the concept of community based tourism. Part 2 contains describes the five projects: Ba Be National Park, Cuc Phuong National Park, Mai Chau, Sa Pa, and Suoi Voi.
- Cultural Diversity Conservation - English / Vietnamese
This paper was presented at the Ethnic Minority Working Group Seminar on Cultural Diversity and Development among Ethnic Minority People in Vietnam in 2003 to discuss the positive and negative impacts of tourism on ethnic culture.
- EU Market for Community-Based Tourism - English
October 2007 report from CBI, the Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries. It summarises the findings of a survey to identify the demand for community-based tourism in European countries.
- Ecolabels in Tourism - English
This article asks what ecolabels are and why there are so many of them.Links
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Websites
NGOs and research centres:
- Rainforest Alliance: Sustainable Tourism
- Respect - Institute for Integrative Tourism and Development
- Retour Foundation
Consultants:
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