Tag: Community Based Tourism

Tag: Community Based Tourism

Tiger Trail Inspires Future Tourism Professionals

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Posted: February 27, 2025

A group of enthusiastic students from the LEOT School’s Dreamcatcher program in Luang Prabang had the opportunity to visit the Tiger Trail office for an immersive learning experience about careers in tourism. The visit was designed to provide these young learners with insights into various professional pathways within Laos’s growing tourism industry, with a special

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Sustainability of Travel in Laos

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Posted: May 22, 2023

Laos, with its lush landscapes, mystical temples, and rich cultural heritage, beckons travellers from around the world. Yet, as visitors, we carry a responsibility to preserve this enchanting land for future generations. This is where sustainability in travel comes into play. Why Sustainability Matters: Sustainability is vital for preserving the natural beauty and cultural richness

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Category: Adventures, Culture, Cycling, Elephants, Hotels, Nature, People, Travel, Trekking

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Luxury Homestay Opens in Khmu/Hmong Village

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Posted: July 26, 2019

The village home stay is built from clay bricks and provides a little bit of luxury where sensitive and culturally interested travellers can enjoy an ethnic interaction responsibility while staying in ecologically built accommodation that supports the community with ongoing income.

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Tiger Trail builds Community Workshop Space in Ban Huay Fai

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Posted: June 25, 2019

Huay Fai is a beautiful village near Luang Prabang Many tourists pass through as it is close to the popular Tad Sae waterfalls. The village has a homestay program providing revenue to the community and now a shared community space will run tourist workshops providing further income for local families.

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Discover Secrets of Deep Mountain Lao Hilltribes

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Posted: February 12, 2019

High in the mountains of Laos lives a minority society, a group of people with a clan system strong in cultural traditions, forged by centuries of animism and ancestral worship and working the land, that they have survived war, desolation and years of oppression. This is the home of the Hmong.

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Meeting house – Houay Peng Village

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Posted: June 22, 2017

The village of Houy Peng has 48 Khamu families, around 233 people. It is approximately an hour away from Luang Prabang. Fair Trek teamed up with the villagers and several groups of student volunteers to rebuild this village’s community meeting house. Because of growth in the population of the village, the existing meeting house was

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Fairtrek builds fence for local village

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Posted: April 22, 2017

Fair Trek’s work with many groups of volunteers result in the village of Houy Fay having a beautiful primary and preschool and now, they also have safer grounds! The pre-school was totally redone, changing the mud floor and bamboo construction to a concrete and cement construction. The primary school was repainted and now the structures

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Painting a school – Fairtrek

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Posted: October 22, 2016

The community of Houy Hear is 40 minutes away from Luang Prabang and it’s a Kasack community. Sometimes all the communities want is a little help that can go a long way and mean a big change. In this case, the village school needed a little touch up! This village partnered with Fair Trek to

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Sport Uniforms – San Oudom Village

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Posted: September 22, 2016

The communities benefit from every visit done by a group of volunteers or students. One of the benefits that Fair Trek makes sure the communities get is the payment of the village fund. It is a communal bank account that the community gets to decide how to spend. Sometimes it could be helping a family

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Building Bathroom – Long Lao Gao Village

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Posted: June 22, 2016

The village of Long Lao Gao is the neighboring village of Long Lao Mai where Fair Trek developed the Eco Bungalow project. Because of this, the village of Long Lao Gao was already familiar with the adobe technique. When the community of Long Lao Gao approached Fair Trek with the need to build a bathroom

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Building School Access Stairs – Kuchaluang Village

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Posted: October 22, 2015

Rainy season in Laos can make life at the villages a little complicated. This was the case for Ban Kuchaluang, a Kasack village that is 1 hour away from Luang Prabang. This village has around 45 families that all share the school’s 2 classrooms but during the rainy season, the steep way up to the

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Building a Water Tank – Kuchaluang Village

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Posted: August 22, 2015

During dry season the villagers of Kuchaluag had to travel many miles to get water for their daily needs. There were months at a time when this village would have no water. Fair Trek and several groups of volunteers partnered with the Kuchaluang community to build this water tank. It has helped the community have

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Painting school and Fencing – Moud Village

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Posted: March 22, 2015

This project in Moud Village has a lot in common with the project developed by Fair Trek in Ponsavang village. These two schools are shared by many villages around them. This is the only secondary school around the area and around 5 to 6 villages use it. This takes a toll on the structure and

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Painting a School – Ponsavang Village

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Posted: March 22, 2015

The village of Ponsavang is in a very strategic location since it is on the main street of the Xieng Ngern district. The 7 or 8 villages around this school only have pre-school or primary schools, making this a secondary school that is shared and used by many. On this occasion, Fair Trek partnered with

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Eco Bungalow Officially Opens in Long Lao Mai!

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Posted: February 6, 2014

Tiger Trail, Fair Trek, and Partner Kickoff Grand Opening of the Eco Bungalow in Long Lao Mai Well, we did it! The Eco Bungalow in Long Lao Mai is officially open for business.  On Friday, 31 January 2014, we celebrated the official opening of the Fair Trek Eco Bungalow community-based tourism project. We joined together

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ECO Bungalow Project in Nong khuay

Eco Bungalow

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Posted: December 9, 2013

  Fair Trek ECO Bungalow Project Luang Prabang, Second Village Construction.   Community tourism project under way in Luang Prabang Province. Building with Clay/Earth and with the help of Volunteers. This initiative for sustainable tourism is unique. Our mission, “tourism benefiting communities” is carried out…     After the successful construction of a beautiful ECO-Bungalow

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