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Over the years we’ve gathered and systemized a wealth of data and documentation on the subject of community-based tourism. Our community-based tourism research library is the only one of its kind in Vietnam, and is open to anyone searching for additional knowledge. A portion of our library has been translated into Vietnamese by our team in Hanoi. If you would like to request the Vietnamese version of one of our materials, please contact us through email.

Guideline / Toolkit

Community-based Tourism Social Innovation Playbook

Like the overall tourism industry, community-based tourism (CBT) has been affected by travel restrictions and changing customer behaviors due to the pandemic. In addition to the focus on sustainability, being anticipatory and adaptive is now critical to the survival of CBT, especially given that local communities might not have the same level of resources as large-scale players in the tourism industry.
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Community-Based Tourism Facilitation Manual

This manual realizes the ambition to compile knowledge and best practices acquired from tourism development projects implemented in Asia and Africa into a community-based tourism (CBT) methodology that can serve as resource for tourism product development in an academic setting and by practitioners.
Research / Study

Banking on Protected Areas: Promoting sustainable protected area tourism to benefit local economies

While governments see protected areas as key to addressing biodiversity loss, protected areas are often overlooked in economic development plans and economic recovery strategies. One reason for this is that data gaps make it difficult to demonstrate protected area tourism’s far-reaching stimuli to national and local economies, especially in developing countries.
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Community-based tourism in Protected areas: Elaborating a model from a South African Perspective

Community-based ecotourism (CBET) shares many of the values and challenges of community-based tourism (CBT) but must also consider the interaction of local communities and the environment, often in areas of controlled or restricted use.
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Handbook on Developing Community-based entrepreneurship (CBE) in Rural Tourism through Digital Empowerment

This handbook overcomes barriers to economic activity faced by rural communities by incorporating digital technology into Medium Small Micro Enterprise’s activities. It does so through increasing connectivity, closing the digital divide and empowering economically vulnerable populations.
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Developing Community-Based Tourism: Lessons Learnt from Rwanda’s Destination Kivu Belt

This publication elaborates on the approach used by the Eco-Emploi project to support the development of the CBT initiatives in the Destination Kivu Belt of Rwanda and the lessons learnt from this process.
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Community-based tourism guidelines by CSIP

These guidelines are designed for leaders and managers in active CBT communities, local tourism management agencies and other stakeholders in the field of CBT who are interested in developing, organizing and managing a CBT model embracing community engagement.
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Boosting Community-based Tourism and Youth Work for Global Sustainable Development

The Training Courses aim to provide youth workers with knowledge, key competences and tools related to “community-based tourism”.
Guideline / Toolkit

Community-Based Tourism (CBT) Enterprise Handbook

This Caribbean Community-Based Tourism (CBT) Enterprise Handbook is for anyone who operates or who wants to develop a community-based tourism (CBT) business. The business can be owned by the community, local groups, families, and be joint ventures, partnerships or entrepreneurial ventures.
Research / Study

Community-based tourism development model and community participation

This paper explores the relationship between Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) and CBT by proposing a model depicting the various stages of TALC in relation to CBT, community participation and type of tourist.
Guideline / Toolkit

Community Based Tourism in Zimbabwe: Guidelines for Development

Objectives of this CBT manual are to clarify definition of CBT and its basic principles, and to guide process of development and improvement of the CBT for promoting the CBT. This manual is prepared for promotion of the CBT in Zimbabwe, but it is expected that this manual is also used in SADC (Southern African Development Community) member countries for promoting CBT.
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Fresh From The Field: Practical experiences developing and marketing CBT in Kayah, Myanmar through tourism supply chains

This Manual presents first-hand experiences, tools and lessons learned between 2014 and 2017, implementing the project NTF III Myanmar: Inclusive Tourism focusing on Kayah State. During the project, many innovative techniques were used in local communities, Yangon, and Europe; to develop and market new cultural tours to European tourists who want to experience life and […]

Action on CBT is working to break the cycle of poverty by empowering communities through sustainable tourism.

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read about community-based tourism

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Community-based Tourism Social Innovation Playbook

Community-Based Tourism Facilitation Manual

Banking on Protected Areas: Promoting sustainable protected area tourism to benefit local economies

Community-based tourism in Protected areas: Elaborating a model from a South African Perspective

Handbook on Developing Community-based entrepreneurship (CBE) in Rural Tourism through Digital Empowerment

Developing Community-Based Tourism: Lessons Learnt from Rwanda’s Destination Kivu Belt

Community-based tourism guidelines by CSIP

Boosting Community-based Tourism and Youth Work for Global Sustainable Development

Community-Based Tourism (CBT) Enterprise Handbook

Community-based tourism development model and community participation

Community Based Tourism in Zimbabwe: Guidelines for Development

Fresh From The Field: Practical experiences developing and marketing CBT in Kayah, Myanmar through tourism supply chains

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