The Guide
This “Responsible Tourism Guide to the Mekong ” website is inspired by ‘The Guide to Responsible Tourism in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam’, a publication of the Mekong Tourism Development Project (MTDP).
The Guide 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 (ADB) as part of a MTDP initiative to support sub-regional cooperation for sustainable tourism. The Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office (MTCO) is
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All content pages and posts that are based on the original content of the ‘The Guide to Responsible Tourism in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam’ are tagged “bookcontent”. They were prepared by the book’s authors Guy Marris, Nick Ray, and Bernie Rosenbloom, and Editor Ken Scott.
Guy Marris
Laos author, Guy Marris, from New Zealand, arrived in Laos in 1997 with New Zealand Volunteer Service Abroad to work in Xe Piane National Protected Area. He has spent the last 10 years in Southeast
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The completed Mekong Tourism Development Project (MTDP), instigator of ‘The Guide to Responsible Tourism in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam’, promoted development of the tourism sector in the lower Mekong River basin countries – Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam – through infrastructure improvements, community and private sector participation, and sub-regional cooperation.
The Project focused on four areas: tourism-related infrastructure improvements; poverty alleviation through community-based tourism development; sub-regional cooperation for sustainable tourism; and implementation assistance and institutional strengthening.
‘The Guide’, published by the Mekong Tourism
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Tourism is a soft target. Everyone loves to criticise it. But we’re all tourists. Even die-hard critics of tourism are themselves tourists. So the question is: how can we travel the right way – the responsible way?
Ken Scott
There will never be a definitive answer because the subject is wholly subjective. Nevertheless, it’s better to try and travel responsibly than walk away saying there are too many snags and caveats. The Responsible Guide to Tourism in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam is therefore,
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