Project Activities

Selecting communities, training and helping especially hill tribes minorities to have awareness to conserve their cultural and natural resources and to be able to apply eco-tourism as a tool to develop their community, to implement CBT, to know their ownership, to appreciate and manage their own resources, to work out together for sustainable development, to participate and plan together for their community and share the benefits of CBT, to dream for their next generation and to leave a legacy for their descendents.

Selecting project areas is based on the potentials for eco-tourism, sometimes there are communities already receiving visits of international tourists, tens of tourists coming into their village, daily, weekly, monthly but not gaining any benefits from the visits. The members of the communities see the visitors coming in and going out of their community without engaging in any personal contacts with them. Actually these communities are really rich with cultural resources and natural resources too. And also to help the people to make extra income from tourist industry by conserving their cultural and natural resources, to share the benefits among the community, to develop their community on their own management, not to be exploited by visitors and outsiders.

The communities are being trained to appreciate, participate and plan the action using participatory method, encouraging them to have vision, dream and goal for their communities, helping them to set their own goal and action plans helping them to know their ownership.