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Asian Encounters is a social enterprise based on a social network. Our objective is to promote pro-poor Community Based Tourism (CBT) through social networking between and among travellers in Asia and the villagers they wish to meet with.
Encounter the Amazing Cultures and Peoples of Asia by Staying with them in their Homes
I am currently in Kerala, India, conducting research (as part of my Information Science Master's degree thesis) on E-Tourism possibilities for pro-poor / sustainable tourism initiatives in Wayanad district. The primary question in this research is "how can we use ICTs to enable and support sustainable tourism?"
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I am re-posting Prof Lutfor's message to me describing what sounds like an ideal CBT location. It would be good to find someone who can mobilise the community towards making a success of it.
Village - Ikrail is located in the centre of a circular shaped river island...Read More
I'm currently carrying out a piece of qualitative research for my MSc in Responsible Tourism Management. I am looking at the conditions for success for community-based tourism (CBT). I'm conscious that there are many different definitions of CBT - but the one I am using for the...Read More
During a lecture at Hong Kong Polytechnic University on 9th Feb 2010, Dr Taleb Rifai the new head of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation admitted that the tourism industry has failed to make a connection with the world’s major problems, such as poverty. When I put it to him...Read More
"Tourism can reduce poverty in developing countries. But tourism growth is not universally inclusive of the poor. Moreover our understanding of how tourism affects the poor is largely based on partial and superficial analysis. Researchers from different disciplines and practitioners with...Read More
