Asian Encounters

Asian Encounters is a social enterprise based on a social network for promoting pro-poor Community Based Tourism (CBT). We call this e-CBT.

Why you should join up.

Community Based Tourism (CBT) operators should join Asian Encounters to promote their homestay and other operations.


Travellers, tourists, gap-year students, as well as backpackers, "richpackers" and "credit-card hippies" plus tourism and development professionals should join to share their experiences and help promote the concept of Community Based Tourism.

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Stan Karanasios

Colombia home stay 1 Reply

Hi all…I am not sure if I am posting my experiences in the correct place, but this seems as good as a place as any :)   While I have stayed at a number of home stays during my research work and tra…

Started by Stan Karanasios. Last reply by Roger Harris Jan 23.

 

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Hi Rob, I wonder if Lonely Planet or other popular guidebooks (or even the WTO), have some kind of classification for home stays, which could be referenced? I imagine many home stays would want to qualify according the definition used by these boo…
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My dad is an American and my mom is an Asian. I got my physical features mostly from my dad. but the eyes are from my mom. I grew up here in Ohio. I am a graduate of Liberal Arts with a passion for literature and geography. I love to travel - alone…
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Dianna Rose

7 Tips On How To Write A Research Paper

There are various tasks accomplished by students in various academic standards and Research Paper writing is among those most complicated tasks provided to students. Below you will find out the fundamentals of writing custom research papers which can actually win an “A” grade for you…

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Pradeep Shree Adhikary

Sirubari Village Tour for Home Stay .....

Village tourism, a recent innovation, is successfully demonstrated at Sirubari in Syangja a half days distance from Pokhara. It is a three hour walk from the road-head just 40 kilometers from Pokhara ie Hellu Bazar through Arjun Chaupari a local market near by. A management committee takes responsibility for visitors, their welcome, accommodation, sightseeing and guiding. The village consists of 60 households of which many are offering guest accommodati… Continue

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Samatha Ledge

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My dad is an American and my mom is an Asian. I got my physical features mostly from my dad. but the eyes are from my mom. I grew up here in Ohio. I am a graduate of Liberal Arts with a passion for literature and geography.

I love to travel - alone or with someone as long as I go to places I like. Before I go to a certain place, I make sure that I have some source materials like paper writing stuff or professional journals t… Continue

Posted by Samatha Ledge on January 29, 2010 at 3:24pm — 1 Comment

Roger Harris

TRUE Community-Based Tourism

I attended a tourism conference recently that claimed to focus on Community Based Tourism (CBT). Actually most of the presentations and people attending worked for travel operators that were based in cities and who sent tourists into rural areas where they stayed in lodges that were owned and managed by the travel operators but who hired local residents as staff. They call this community-based tourism. I don’t!!

For me, TRUE CBT occurs when the residents of a destination own and operate their o… Continue

Posted by Roger Harris on December 31, 2009 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

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