Community Tourism Holidays 

Community Tourism can help people to make a difference for themselves. Digging deep in your pocket because you suddenly feel guilty or humbled during a holiday is not the answer.  Creating an environment of expectation and hand outs doesn't help anyone - not you, not the people you hand out to. Creating long term and sustainable opportunities that alleviate poverty by involving local people in initiatives that provide them with an opportunity to earn a living and improve  their life does help. Holidays that involve local people are not a new concept, nor are they necessarily the answer to alleviating poverty. Community Tourism based holidays and projects  need careful development and are about engaging with local partners and people on an equal footing so that everyone shares the benefit. This is the aim of our community holidays to Morocco, Rwanda and Ethiopia,

 Children  attentively listen to their teacher. The carefully managed sustainable tourism being developed with the community in their village will help the future of these children. Children all over the world can benefit from sustainable, long term, focused Community Tourism - so please think about this when you make your next holiday decision.

Working together in a co-operative gives women an opportunity to preserve traditional skills and to earn a living by selling their hand-made products. Working together also means that women can look after their children at the same time.

Focused initiatives involving town and rural communities can have an unprecedented impact on poverty reduction. People may live in some of the most beautiful regions of the world but relying on the environment to survive is extremely tough. Staying with a community in Ethiopia is a very special holiday.