
- 2007
- Guideline / Toolkit
- Asia
This Toolkit 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, in order to enable readers to embark on their own monitoring project.
There are four main sections to the Toolkit.
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Monitoring
- Chapter 2: Step-by-Step Monitoring
- Chapter 3: Case Studies
- Chapter 4: Additional Resources
This Toolkit is recommended for anyone involved in the funding, planning or managing of a community-based tourism project: local officials, tourism planners, development consultants, donor agencies, and community groups. It provides an introduction to monitoring and a solid foundation for further practice-based learning. It aims to break down the knowledge barriers to active public participation in tourism monitoring to enable communities to design and run their own tourism monitoring programmes.
The SNV Netherlands Development Organisation has been actively involved in supporting sustainable tourism development since the mid 1990s. In Asia, SNV has had tourism programmes in Nepal, Bhutan, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam (but tourism programs in VN is no longer active). They formed the Pro-Poor Sustainable Tourism (PPST) Network for the purposes of providing knowledge development to serve this practice area.
This network selected the production of a Community Tourism Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit as an important knowledge product to be developed. In July of 2004, the PPST network commissioned a consultant to produce a preliminary report on the development of the CBT M+M Toolkit. Based on this work in 2005, the PPST network commissioned the School of Travel Industry Management (TIM – University of Hawaii) to co-produce a “Community-Based Tourism Monitoring and Managing Toolkit”.
This partnership built on the work already completed by SNV’s PPST network and TIM. A draft version of the Toolkit was written in December 2005 and distributed for review to SNV Tourism Advisors and clients. The final version of the toolkit is a collaborative effort of Louise Twining-Ward with the input and editing from Walter Jamieson, University of Hawaii, Steve Noakes and Sheena Day, Australia.