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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 […]
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Guidelines for community-based ecotourism development

These guidelines identify some general principles, and highlight some practical considerations for community-based ecotourism. They seek to provide a reference point for field project staff, and to encourage a consistent approach.
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Guidelines for Marketing CBT Products

To facilitate the creation of market strategies that lead to strong partnership creation, this guidebook comprises two parts, targeted to two different actors relevant for the success of CBT organization market strategies.
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Handbook on CBT: How to Develop and Sustain CBT by APEC

The Handbook on Community Based Tourism: “How to Develop and Sustain CBT” is designed to provide guidance for tourism/rural planners, NGOs, industry players and CBT organizations in deciding whether tourism could work for a particular community and if it is feasible, how to participate in the tourism industry and sustain it over the long term.
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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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Improving Competitiveness in the Caribbean Tourism Sector through ICT-based Innovations

The present report has been conceived to present innovation strategies, policies, cases, challenges and trends to be useful for a broad audience: national and subnational level tourism, innovation, industry and competitiveness authorities, and private tourism sector locally based.
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Instruction Manual for the Operation of Homestay Services

Instruction Manual for the Operation of Homestay Services is designed to be a training material for homestay operators by the High Impact Tourism Training for Formal Sector (HITT) Programme in Vietnam, funded by the EU under the support of ESRT.
Guideline / Toolkit

Manual on Tourism and Poverty Alleviation – Practical Steps for Destinations

The purpose of this manual is to outline some practical steps, in simple language, that can be taken in tourism destinations to shape and manage tourism in ways which deliver more benefits to disadvantaged individuals and communities. It is not a general guide to tourism development but focuses on how to channel tourism income more effectively to the poor.
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Poverty Alleviation and Community Based Tourism: Experiences from Central and South Asia

This publication reports on pilot activities carried out in eight Central and South Asian countries between 2002 and 2005 as part of the UNESCO project Development of Cultural and Ecotourism in the Mountainous Regions of Central and South Asia.
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Resource Kit for Community-Based Tourism for Conservation and Development

This Resource Kit for Community-based Tourism for Conservation and Development serves as a guide for planners and field-based staff to design, implement and manage Community-based Tourism. The Kit is NOT a detailed “how-to” manual but is a set of guidelines for field application.
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Responsible Community Tourism Development Manual

What this project aims to do is combine the cumulative experience of decades of community tourism development from the international development sector with the experience from the private sector to provide advice and guidance with additional practical elements that are not included in other manuals.
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Sustainable CBT DIY Toolkit: Communication and Marketing

This toolkit guides the community members through an awareness raising and learning journey for creating and implementing responsible marketing and communication actions.
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Thailand CBT Standard Handbook

Raising service and sustainability standard is an important strategy to ensure long term sustainability, increase the competitiveness of CBT and raise the credibility of CBT among tour operators. A standard should also help to increase the confidence of independent travelers, as they search for information about tourism destination and activities.
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The Business of Community Based Tourism: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach

The present paper attempts to weave together the theory and practice of CBT. Though the idea of community-based development is age-old, its adoption into tourism is relatively recent. The paper examines how CBT can be a panacea for many of the evils of the mainstream industry driven mass-tourism. It exhorts that, while community is at […]
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The Vietnam CBT Handbook: A market-based approach

The Vietnam Community-based Tourism Handbook is designed as a practical reference guide. It provides a simple yet general perspective, covering all stages of project cycles. It includes practical tools and instructions for use in the project.

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

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

Guidelines for community-based ecotourism development

Guidelines for Marketing CBT Products

Handbook on CBT: How to Develop and Sustain CBT by APEC

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

Improving Competitiveness in the Caribbean Tourism Sector through ICT-based Innovations

Instruction Manual for the Operation of Homestay Services

Manual on Tourism and Poverty Alleviation – Practical Steps for Destinations

Poverty Alleviation and Community Based Tourism: Experiences from Central and South Asia

Resource Kit for Community-Based Tourism for Conservation and Development

Responsible Community Tourism Development Manual

Sustainable CBT DIY Toolkit: Communication and Marketing

Thailand CBT Standard Handbook

The Business of Community Based Tourism: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach

The Vietnam CBT Handbook: A market-based approach

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