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Community
related: community tourism, slow travel, local google+: [|Local Travel] (50 members) editing: [|Understanding Community Tourism]

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Ron's Essay
Oaxaca, Mexico - During the economic downturn caused by the social protests in 2006, Oaxacans became increasingly aware of the value of 'tourism' in sectors in which direct interaction with visitors was limited. Oaxaca has numerous Spanish language schools and many of these students live with local families. When the number of students arriving began to diminish, the homestay hosts purchased less food from local markets, thereby instigating a ripple effect that led to less money circulating in the community.

How we make sense of 'community' and 'travel' has been focused in past years on 'community-based tourism' in which communities outright own the tourism operation. While there have been some successes (Madidi in Bolivia), there have also been many failures as communities had a poor understanding of visitor desires and needs, not to mention trends.

Where we prefer to focus attention on Planeta.com and the Planeta Wiki is toward a more mature understanding of communities and tourism, in which we use the power of the social web and face-to-face encounters to catalyze healthier interactions among visitors and locals alike.

Responsible travel creates 'better places to live and better places to visit' which works wonders in raising the living standards and happiness for all who care about how others benefit.

Buzzword Bingo
Community - Global - Interdependence - Local - Ritual

Wiki
Community Tourism Guide Survey (2006) Community Tourism

**Flickr** [|Community tourism] [|Rural Tourism Group]

Google+
http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2872671 https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/111562381725373837263 [|Turismo Comunitario] [|Turismo de Base Comunitario Bolivia]

Google Docs
[|World Tourism Day: Recommendations for Communities]

Community-based tourism
[|A misguided quest: Community-based tourism in Latin America] (PDF) [|survey a number of successful community-based tourism (CBT) initiatives]

Questions
//How do companies show how much cash flows to communities?// //What is the difference between community tourism and community-based tourism?// (related: definitions) //How do we measure the impact of tourism on communities?// //How to we respect the rhythm of the community?//

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Editing
[|Understanding Community Tourism] [|Democracy and the Trees - Ross Mitchell] [|Parque Ejidal San Nicolas Totolapan] [|Mexico's Ejido San Nicolas Totolapan - A Millenium Review - Antonio "Febo" Suárez] [|Community Museums of Oaxaca - Teresa Morales] [|Can Communities Take The Lead In Developing Mexico's Eco Travel? - Juan Carlos Ibarra] [|NGO-Community Collaboration for Ecotourism: A Strategy for Sustainable Regional Development in Oaxaca - David Barkin and Carlos Pailles] [|Community Based Ecotourism and Community Building: The Case of the Lacandones - Axel Kersten] [|Community Ecotourism and Organic Agriculture - Ronald Nigh and Fernando Ochoa] [|Ecoturismo comunitario en la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca - Jorge Favela Fierro] [|Community-Based Ecotourism in the Maya Forest - Ruth Norris, J. Scott Wilber, and Luís Oswaldo Morales Marín] [|El Cielo Research - Scott Walker]

Recent Events

 * July 3, [|9am CDT] ** [|Google+ Hangout: Communities and Tourism]

Very pleased to have [|Enrique Cabanilla] joining the Planeta Wiki and sharing his research on community tourism. Our livestreaming [|July 3 Wednesday travel hangout] looked at //turismo comunitario//, aka community tourism around the world.

Community Worksheet
What can visitors do? What should visitors know before they arrive? How can visitors arrive? Task: Make a Top 10 and Top 50 Checklist.

[|Costa Rica]
[|Community-based Ecotourism - Global Environmental Facility] [|ATEC - Asociacion Talamanquena de Ecoturismo y Conservacion] [|Cooprena - National Eco-Agricultural Cooperative Network of Costa Rica]

Examples from other countries
[|Community Tourism in Belize - Richard Mahler] [|Community Tourism in Peru: Taquile, Lake Titicaca - Ross Mitchell] [|Yeak Laom Community Tourism - Cambodia]

Elsewhere on the Web
[|Intentional Communities] http://www.communityroundtable.com/grow/10-trends-for-the-future-of-communities/

Yahoo
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/community_tourism

Community-Driven
[|community-driven] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/12/09/some-communities-are-destroyed-by-tragedy-and-disaster-others-spring-back-heres-what-makes-the-difference/

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