Consumer Site to Focus on Responsible Tourism

BY: MTCO , March 6, 2009

A new website inspired by ‘The Guide to Responsible Tourism in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam’ will be launched by the end of March.

In order to expand the potential readership of the book and the geographical coverage of its valuable content, the ‘Mekong Responsible Tourism Guide’ website will be funded and developed for the MTCO by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s ASEAN Competitiveness Enhancement Project (ACE).

Tourism boards and journalists (on a pro bono basis) are now welcome to submit write-ups and photographs on specific responsible tourism activities in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Guangxi and Yunnan provinces of China for the website’s free publication. Email content@mekongtourism.org.

All content pages and posts based on the content of the original book, which was written by Guy Marris, Nick Ray, and Bernie Rosenbloom, and edited by Ken Scott, will be tagged “bookcontent”. Anyone will be able submit comments, testimonials, and fair criticism on all responsible tourism activities featured on the site.

A publication of the Mekong Tourism Development Project (MTDP) under the auspices of the MTCO, ‘The Guide to Responsible Tourism in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam’ was funded by the Ministry of Tourism Cambodia, the Lao National Tourism Administration and the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism with loans from the Asian Development Bank.

To submit content, please email content@mekongtourism.org.