Another community-based tourism venture is the Community Baboon Sanctuary, an experiment in voluntary citizen conservation, founded in 1985.
Otavalo's Runa Tupari (www.runatupari.com), an indigenous-run agency involved in community tourism provides daily treks with local guides who explain the area's legends.
For us at the other end of the world when we are trying to bridge responsible tourism with conservation and community, that puts enormous pressure on us.
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Minnesota Vikings owner Mark Wilf said his team's clash with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2013 would offer acute exposure of "Minnesota's impressive business community and tourism industry, " as well as offering the franchise's Europe-based fans a chance to see the team in action.
One West Belfast community group has produced a "Troubles map" and is promoting tourism from an office in the republican community's heartland.
The judge heard how political representatives, tourism chiefs and the golfing community have all backed the plans.
Over the last decade, a small, community-centric tourism industry has sprung up here, with local guides leading village-to-village treks through the mountainous farmland.
Since the 1980s, the government has encouraged Belizeans to be stakeholders in their own tourism industry, occasionally supporting community-based projects, according to the travel book Insight Guides Belize.
The final venues represent a balance between the desire of visitors to combine soccer with tourism and the demands of the local community for venues to be built in deprived areas.
As a result of the variety of actors represented (political decision makers, site managers, museum directors, local community representatives, the World Tourism Organization, the private sector, etc.), the seminar resulted in the creation of a detailed inventory of field experiences, shared best practices and identified constraints and challenges to tourism memory.
But many in the local business community are impressed with the Ministry of Tourism's efforts to lure visitors.
The different programmes are specifically created for the local communities in which they are located, in thematic fields such as "forest", "culture and environment", "local community and environment", "tourism and environment", "biodiversity", "soil" etc.
According to Mutaqin, if the resort can benefit the local community by offering employment and bringing in tourism money, there is hope that people will learn to appreciate the precious nature of the environment in which they live before it is severely damaged.
It says church buildings - and congregations - are a vital source of social services, a location for community activities, and the focal point for tourism.
Community participation and cooperation programmes with numerous leisure and tourism initiatives around geological heritage and landscape connect the local population with the economy and tourism sectors.
But it said potential risks included public health hazards and environmental damage, disruption during construction, long term use of land, and an impact on the community from changes to the environment, property values and tourism.
To help get Broadway back on its feet, the entire community has gotten together to record a commercial aimed at bringing tourism back to the Big Apple and theatergoers back to the live stage.
The staging of the event must also form part of a more comprehensive tourism, sports development and business investment strategy demonstrating public and private sector and community support.
While the timing of the construction is not yet known, such a scheme would almost certainly lead to the forced resettlement of the Lao-Khmu community of Don Khoun, just as the residents have begun benefitting from tourism through their village.
In addition to community-based projects, successful efforts in the public sector have helped boost sustainable tourism in Belize.
The community company has plans to use it as a "flexible space" accommodating food and tourism industries.
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