Cultural Projects Abroad
Gain insight into cultural and community based activities around the world. This offers travellers and volunteers a local experience that also benefits the communities. Visit these programmes below and find out more!
Take part in a Travelling, Volunteering and Learning Programme (TVL) in the Cloudforest of Ecuador, and help to conserve a part of the Ecuadorian Cloud Forest by participating in tree planting, trail work, research activities and sustainable living and food production in La Hesperia's Biological Station nature reserve. The TVL programme also includes visiting an indigenous community (meeting a shamanic healer), learning about medicinal plants, visiting the local school, learning about survival techniques and shelter building in the forest and more, plus Spanish classes too. Suitable for individuals or groups.
Tourism that Benefits Local People
Community tourism (sometimes called community-based tourism) is a form of tourism which aims to include and benefit local communities, particularly indigenous peoples and villagers in the rural South (ie 'developing world'). For instance, villagers might host tourists in their village, managing the scheme communally and sharing the profits. There are many types of community tourism project, including many in which the 'community' works with a commercial tour operator, but all community tourism projects should give local people a fair share of the benefits/profits and a say in deciding how incoming tourism is managed.
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