Tuesday 28 July 2009

Locally owned tourism businesses, Thailand

Chiang Mai
Ying Ping Bazaar
Embroidery,silver jewellery,painted umbrellas,batiks

Chiang Rai

Akha Hill Tribe,

Visitors stay in bamboo or mud bungalows which overlooks a valley surrounded by tea plantations,rice paddies,waterfalls and jungle.

There is an open-air restaurant and jungle treks which might include fishing, elephant rides,staying in a banana leaf house and visiting other hill tribes.

akhahill.com

udon thani province
gecko villa
from £130 per night

Monday 27 July 2009

Locally owned tourism businesses, Honduras

Garifuna tOURISM gROUP
Guest can share in the local cuisine,dance and music and learn how the garifuna fish.

geo.ya.com/enkel

La Esperanza
Markets,held Sunday

Tutule
Tutule Indian Market,held thursday and sunday

Sunday 26 July 2009

locally owned tourism businesses,costa rica

Brocura Indian reservation
Accommodation can be arranged

danta corcovada lodge,puntarenas

El Descanso
run by Asodint indignous organisation
nacientespalmichal.com
actuarcostarica.com

Tradational design cabins and traditional food is on offer.

yOU CAN VISIT ANCIENT PETROGLYPHS,various rivers and other indigenous communities

Tiskita community,puntarenas
Hats for sale

Some of this information comes from something I wrote in 1992, so may be out of date.

Saturday 25 July 2009

locally owned tourism businesses,kenya

Eliye Springs,eastern
turkanas sell fossilized hippo teeth etc

Il Ngwesi Lodge,rift valley province
owned/run by the Il Ngwesi(People of the wildlife) masai tribe of Laikipiak,who have lived in the area for centuries,it is on the edge of the Mukogodo escarpement

ilngwesi.com

Isioli.Eastern
Market

Kisii,Myanza
Market

Kisumu,Myanza
Market

Wananchi craft shop

Lodwar,rift valley
Market

Mara Sopa Lodge
marai mara game reserve, rift valley

Mathew's Range,rift valley
samburu guides for hire

Mombasa
Makupi market

Nakuru
market

Nyeri
Market

oloolaimutia campsite
marai mara game reserve,rift valley

(I am unsure how out of date the above information might be,ideally it should be checked out first)