community-based tourism

After years spent knitting in secret, hiding her craft skills from her husband and her disabilities from the outside world, a last-minute decision changed the trajectory of one woman’s life.

There’s not much to see out here. Rice paddies, villages, a few roadside stands selling fruit and eggs. You certainly wouldn’t expect a tourism project; a village-run community of homestays …

“I couldn’t have imagined that one day tourists would come to visit my village or my house. Since I joined the CBT and started welcoming tourists, our economic situation has …