The Community Tourism Guide: Exciting Holidays for Responsible Travellers

Description

Stay with the Indian peoples of the Amazon jungle. Visit the Inuit above theArctic Circle. walk the Songlines of Central Australia with Aboriginal guides. This book is a guide to a new type of holiday. Tribal people and rural villagers in Africa, Asia, Australia, North and South America, and the Pacific Islands are setting up their own tours: tours from which they, and not the international hotel chains, derive some income. For the traveller, they offer uniquely exciting opportunities, far from the usual tourist ghettos. And they are based on fair trade, benefitting local communities and giving them hope of a better future. This guide brings together the pick of these holidays for the first time. It describes hundreds of quite different vacations in many of the most beautiful places around the world, with full contact details and range of further information. Chosen by Tourism Concern, Europe's leading ethical tourism organization, and not available through travel agents, they promise uniquely rewarding experiences to the adventurous and those concerned about the concerned about the impacts of their visits.