community-based tourism

Travel with Cliona to a guesthouse in Crete’s White Mountains for family-style hospitality and delicious dishes.

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.

“Please don’t walk around after dark,” Mohan, the village chief, tells us as he shows us around in the late afternoon sun. “We had an elephant come through last night.”

“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 …