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’m here to learn about the village and its community-based tourism project – both shaped by a single story – involving a British missionary and Nabutautau’s chief, that took place …

A cool afternoon breeze ripples through the swaying palm trees overhead, blowing north out to sea where calm waters gently lap against the rocky foreshore. A group of laughing children …

“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 …

Read all about Myanmar’s very first community-based tourism project in Myaing, newly opened to visitors last year with support from Intrepid Travel.