- Visit a local village to see how people try to maintain their traditional way of live through community-based tourism.

Over the past decade they have been involved in a community-based tourism project to restore a 700-year-old fort and the historic village beneath it.

Cultural Exchange and Homestay Visit a local village to learn about the traditional way of life through community-based tourism.

Tham Lot is a good example of community-based tourism as all of the guides at the cave are from local Shan villages.

In Nepal a community-based tourism model has been developed with a strong emphasis on sharing benefits with local people and on the regeneration of degraded forests.

Many privately run companies have cooperatives in Southern Belize that manage a rural and community-based tourism project, which has been developed with support from the UNESCO.

INGUAT has organized an active community-based tourism program in San Vicente Pacaya to minimize the risk of armed robbery on Pacaya.

The program supports the national goal of attracting high-quality tourists interested in sustainable tourism, the provincial goal of being a leading destination for eco tourism, and local efforts to develop community-based tourism.

CECOCAFEN is an organization of coffee cooperatives in Northern Nicaragua that manage a rural and community-based tourism project, which has been developed with support from the Lutheran World Relief.

To the Editor: I commend Rebecca Johnson for "Costa Rica's Rumbling Mountain" (Oct. 24), presenting what Costa Rica has to offer - natural phenomena and beauty, combined with community-based tourism.

Additionally, a successful community-based tourism project in Kim Bồng has allowed greater tourism revenue for the village; the venture's success has been suggested as a pattern for future sustainable tourism projects throughout Southeast Asia.

Last year a community-based tourism project in the Hunza Valley, in the northern Karakoram mountains near the border with China, won the top award in the British Airways Tourism for Tomorrow Awards.

In the following year the company established In 2004, the company merged with Steppe Nomads Ger Resort "with the local government and nomad community to create the Gun-Galuut Nature Reserve and develop community-based tourism".