The Good Alternative Travel Guide

Exciting Holidays for Responsible Travellers

Mark Mann, Zainem Ibrahim

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781134206179
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Development Economics
• Index: Economics

* Stay with indigenous tribes in the Amazon
* Dog-sled with the Inuit in the Arctic
* Walk the Songlines of central Australia with Aboriginal guides
* Learn African drumming in Ghana or how to dance salsa in Cuba

Bored with the same old package tours and identikit resorts? Then this book is your key to a whole new world of inspirational holidays. Throughout Asia, Africa, the Americas and the Pacific, tribal people and rural villagers are setting up their own tours - and they want you to visit.

These holidays are a better alternative. Better for you, with real insights into local life and culture in some of the most beautiful places on earth; better for the people you visit, leaving them with more money and supporting local development projects; and better for the environment, offering sustainable alternative incomes for communities living in threatened ecosystems.

Compiled by Mark Mann for Tourism Concern, Europe's leading ethical tourism organization, this updated version of The Community Tourism Guide is still the only guide to this type of holiday. It not only explains the principles of 'community-based tourism', but also lists hundreds of guesthouses and tours, with full contact details to help you arrange your next holiday.

SECTION TWO

HOLIDAY DIRECTORY

OUTBOUND OPERATORS

KEY

■ contact name/address

telephone	fax
website	email

This directory features responsible tourism companies and organizations in the UK, Europe, the US and Australia that include local community tourism projects on their tours. Contact details for these operators are updated on Tourism Concern's website at www.tourismconcern.org.uk. If you work with local community tourism projects and wish to be listed in this directory in future,

email: [email protected]

UK - BASED TOUR OPERATORS

International dialing code +44.

Bear Print International

Tours to Native American lands and communities run with tribal leaders and Native American educators and cultural representatives. Tours aim to give a real insight into the history and lives of Native Americans, rather than the tourist stereotypes. Trips to different regions and tribes including the Navajo, Lakota (Sioux), Cheyenne and Blackfeet. Bear Print also publishes The Trail of Many Spirits by Serle Chapman, about the history and contemporary culture of Native America.

■ PO Box 1, Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF4 4YB

01924 840 111

[email protected]

Caledonia Languages Abroad

Language courses in Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, Peru, Mexico, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Russia, etc. They also run two-week holidays to Cuba and Argentina, combining Spanish with classes in Cuban dance or tango, and can organize volunteer work placements in Latin America.

■ The Clockhouse, Bonnington Mill, 72 Newhaven Road, Edinburgh EH6 5QG

+

0131 621 7721/2

0131 621 7723

www.caledonialanguages.co.uk

[email protected]

Discovery Initiatives

Small-group and tailor-made wildlife trips run in partnership with conservation organizations in destination countries, featuring wildlife lodges and safaris, trekking, horse trekking and rainforest tours. Destinations include southern and east Africa, India, China, Mongolia, Borneo, Australia, Canada, Hawaii, Peru and Ecuador and the Galapagos. 10 per cent of revenue goes to the local conservation organization. ATOL bonded.

■ 51 Castle St, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 1 QD

01285 643 333

01285 885 888

www.discoveryinitiatives.com

[email protected]

Dragoman

An adventure holiday operator that incorporates visits to locally-run and community-based tourism projects into many of its trips. Brochure available. ATOL bonded.

■ Camp Green, Debenham, Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 6LA

01728 861 133

01728 861 127

www.dragoman.co.uk

Earthwatch Institute (Europe)

Paying volunteer holidays with conservation research projects. Their focus is mainly conservation, archaeology and wildlife, but a ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Foreword: Tourism Concern – putting people in the picture
• Preface to the second edition
• Introduction: Strange birdsong in the jungle
• Acknowledgements
• Disclaimer
• SECTION ONE: COMMUNITY TOURISM – THE ISSUES AND PRINCIPLES
• SECTION TWO: HOLIDAY DIRECTORY
• SECTION THREE: RESPONSIBLE TOURISM RESOURCES
• Glossary