Community Flashcards
Invisible Cities
Community Tour
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Invisible Cities offers people affected by homelessness the opportunity to become tour guides in their own city, leading to engaging and alternative walks for both travelers and locals.
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- Invisible Cities offers people affected by homelessness the opportunity to become tour guides in their own city.
- Tours bring a destination and its stories to life through the unique perspectives of locals
- 100% of its profit is reinvested in these initiatives and the ongoing development and education of the tour guides as well.
Kazakhstan
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Spearheaded by the Kazakhstan Tourism Association, rural villagers are trained in hospitality to provide homestays for tourists while acquiring fresh economic opportunities for themselves.
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- Community-based initiative spearheaded by the Kazakhstan Tourism Association allows locals to create a future that embraces tourism sustainably
- Gives locals hospitality training to provide homestays for tourists.
- preserves the traditions and landscapes that initially draws visitors to rural Kazakhstan.
- It also means travelers can directly interact with the local community.
Faroe Islands
Community Immersion
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For all its natural drama – towering basalt lava cliffs, plunging waterfalls, pastures that sparkle like green gemstones – it’s the embrace of the close-knit community that makes the Faroe Islands such an endearing destination.
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- heimablídni (high-mah-blewd-knee) “home hospitality” restaurants, where locals invite tourists into their homes for traditional homemade Faroese food,
- to family-run guest houses and plenty of opportunities to interact with locals one-to-one, the close-knit community make it an endearing destination to visit.
- Closed For Maintenance scheme is an annual event where 100 voluntourists visit for the sole purpose of mending hiking paths, rebuilding cairns and helping to preserve the natural landscape
Medellin
Community Revitalization
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From the world’s most dangerous city to arguably its most innovative, Medellín has smashed all stereotypes in its community-driven revitalization.
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- Medellin has evolved from one of the world’s most dangerous cities to arguably its most innovative
- Continued efforts to revitalize the poorest areas of the city through community-driven projects, social urbanism, education and entrepreneurship.
- The government has increased access to culture with its latest Plan for Culture (2011-2020), which improved cultural diversity across the city’s museums and public spaces.
- Two new highways are now nearly finished, halving the drive time between Medellin, the Atlantic coast and Cartagena
- Pablo Escobar’s former home has been demolished and will be replaced with a public park.
Tesfa Tours, Ethiopia
Community Trekking
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Locals lead Tesfa Tours’ perspective-altering treks through the extraordinary landscapes of Ethiopia, with travelers warmly hosted in village homes and proceeds directly supporting the community.
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- 80% of the cost of each Tesfa Tours trek goes directly to the local community
- Takes travelers to fascinating places like the Churches of Tigray that are carved into cliff faces, or tracking wildlife like baboons and wolves
- Empowers locals to become guides and providing village homestays as accommodation,
- Provide travelers with unique interactions and a cultural understanding that they wouldn’t get to experience otherwise.
Australia
Community Restoration
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After one of the worst bushfire seasons in history, the rainforests, sapphire coasts and endemic wildlife of Australia are slowly rising from the ashes thanks to a number of community restoration efforts.
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- it may take hundreds, if not thousands, of years for the 27 million acres of Australian landscape to fully recover
- the restoration and future resilience efforts are already underway.
- a coordinated local effort from The Nature Conservancy Australia brings together experts in agriculture, conservation, Indigenous land management, forestry, science and philanthropy, and commit to a bold plan to protect the natural environment in the future.
- The Government is investing at least $200 million into saving native flora and fauna
- Tourism sector is offering travelers the chance to plant trees, remove weeds and carry out biodiversity surveys in a small effort to rebuild nature.
Hesham Modamani, Refugee Voices Tours
Community Storyteller
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Using his personal experience as a refugee fleeing the Syrian civil war, Hesham Moadamani guides travelers around Berlin for Refugee Voices Tours, drawing parallels between the current Syrian conflict and the history of migration in Germany.
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- Hesham fled the Syrian Civil War by swimming from Turkey to Greece.
- After making it to Germany, he began giving tours with Refugee Voices Tours.
- the tours create a sense of global community by drawing parallels between the current Syrian conflict and the history of migration in Germany.
- The tours historically significant places in the city to life — like the Berlin Wall, the Topography of Terror and Checkpoint Charlie — while helping travelers reexamine what a community is and remind us that we are more connected than conflicts and division perhaps suggest.
Footprint Cafes, Siem Reap
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Blending wholesome Khmer cuisine and a unique approach to coworking, this Siem Reap social enterprise empowers locals to realize their business dreams.
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- Footprint Cafes is a a project deliberately set up to make a difference and help locals escape the cycle of poverty.
- The organization provides access to employment and training, plus heavily discounted or free coworking space to Cambodian start-ups,
- A number of successful local businesses and projects have launched from the cafe, such as a literacy program for vulnerable girls.
- It also invests 100% of its net profits back into the community as grants for local educational or entrepreneurial projects and has ethically-sourced local produce available in the cafe too creating a sustainable business cycle.
Burren EcoTourism Network
Community Tourism Project
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The Burren EcoTourism Network has brought over 60 local enterprises together to transform Ireland’s Burren and Cliffs of Moher (mow-her) Geopark into a global leader for sustainable tourism.
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- Burren EcoTourism Network shows that popular tourism and sustainability don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
- More than 60 local enterprises in the region joined together to promote slow tourism, local engagement and greater responsibility for all in the area for a more sustainable future
- the community’s efforts have won three tourist sights European Destination of Excellence status from the European Commission.
Girl in Florence
Expat storyteller
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Through the lens of local artists, artisans, independent shops and expats, Georgette Jupe’s Girl in Florence blog offers travelers a deeper connection to Italy’s most culturally significant city.
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- Georgette’s blogposts scratch under the surface of one of the most popular cities in Italy.
- Georgette has immersed herself in the local community and brought to life a side of Florence few visitors see.
- By shining a light on the city’s independent artists and artisans, Georgette encourages her readers to stay longer, dig deeper and leave more fulfilled than they would by staying for a single night.
