Best Destinations for Community Based Tours

Best Destinations

Ethiopia

As a responsible DMC company, we design tours that benefit the community. We believe the local people should be rewarded for preserving their environment. Our carefully designed community-based tours around Lalibela are the first to be launched. These tours are exclusively planned to bridge the distance between travellers and the locals. Guests will stay at community guest houses built by the villagers. Communities in these basalt mountains farm with ox-drawn ploughs and primitive tools. The farmers’ lives are difficult, but they still have a smile on their faces and enjoy greeting visitors. In these highlands, we provide various separate walking holidays along with a combined trekking options for creating longer or more diverse walking vacations.

Tigray is also another destination for fascinating community-based tourism in northern Ethiopia. The stunning landscape of the Gheralta area is famed for its ancient churches and monasteries. The trek on the sandstone ridges and farmed valleys reward you with plenty of opportunities to observe the farming and community life in the area. Along the way, you may also encounter Gelada monkeys, jackals, hyrax, and other mammals. If you are a bird enthusiast, lammergeiers and the medium-sized bateleur eagles can be easily seen.

Kenya

At each destination, our community-based tourism ensures that local communities own and maintain the tourism experience, ensuring that the economic benefits of tourism remain in the community. Such tours are designed to provide travelers with an authentic taste of a local community’s history, cultural traditions, and natural resources, resulting in a rich and immersive travel experience.

In addition to environmental conservation, public awareness, and wildlife preservation, community-based tourism keeps young people in communities from moving to larger cities by providing them with local job opportunities.

Furthermore, these tours create jobs, generate income, facilitates local sourcing of goods and services, and keeps money in the community. Community-based tourism also aids in the diversification of economic activities beyond forestry, reducing risk in years during severe climate change results.