PDF: A Toolkit for Monitoring and Managing Community-Based Tourism

Citation
Twining-Ward, L. (2007). A toolkit for monitoring and managing community-based tourism. Ha Noi, Vietnam: SNV Asia Pro-Poor Sustainable Tourism Network.

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Summary This Toolkit is designed to provide readers with the know-how to set up and run a monitoring programme for a community-based tourism project. It gives step-by-step guidelines, supported by a wide range of case studies, in order to enable readers to embark on their own monitoring project. In developing the Toolkit, we have drawn on experience from managing tourism monitoring projects worldwide, as well as on up-to-date sources of information on the subject. Whilst many of these are technical documents, in this Toolkit we have attempted to make the process as simple, practical, and user-friendly as possible.

This Toolkit is recommended for anyone involved in funding, planning or managing of a community-based tourism project: local officials, tourism planners, development consultants, donor agencies, and community groups. It provides an introduction to monitoring and a solid foundation for further practice-based learning. It aims to break down the knowledge barriers to active public participation in tourism monitoring to enable communities to design and run their own tourism motioning programs.

Keywords
Nepal, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia, Asia, scoping, indicators, data collection, evaluation, communication