Sustainable Tourism Knowledge Center

MTCO Resource Knowledge Center is an e-library on Sustainable / responsible tourism.

It is meant to provide our target groups ie : tourism industry (tour operators, accommodations, travel agencies, CBT operators), tourism administrations, development partners, NGOs and academics and students, with material, guidelines, case studies, tips & practical information and, examples of good practices, all of which, we are confident, will be very useful in their activity.

If our website is dedicated primarily to the Greater Mekong Sub Region (Cambodia, Yunnan and Guangxi provinces in China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam), we posted interesting worldwide case studies and presentations of good practices that could inspire you, as well as manuals, reports and studies from international organizations such as UNWTO, UNEP, IUCN, WWF, SNV who are of universal value.

The Resource Knowledge Center is organised into different sections:

I. Responsible tourism

• Definitions & principles

• Market demand

• Manuals & guidelines for policy makers & for the private sector

• Monitoring & evaluation

• The Marrakech Process, reports from the meetings of the International Task force for Sustainable Tourism

II. Tourism Certification & Award schemes

• Certification schemes

• Award schemes

III. Pro poor Tourism

• Pro-poor tourism General Guidelines

- UNWTO reports

- PPT experiences initiated by the private sector

- Working through the Value chain

- Multi stake holder approach

• Presentations from MTCO GMS Pro Poor Tourism workshop;  Elaborating profitable partnership mechanisms for the local communities, the private sector and the countries.

• Community Based Tourism-CBT-

- Definitions- Manuals & Guidelines

- How to Develop CBT

- How to Market CBT

- Volunteer Tourism

- CBT case studies from GMS countries

- CBT case studies from other countries

IV. Tourism & Biodiversity Conservation

• Tourism & Biodiversity in the GMS general information

• Presentations from MTCO GMS Tourism & Biodiversity conservation workshop; How to foster responsible nature based tourism in the GMS?

- Background Paper on Biodiversity Conservation and Tourism Development in the GMS

- Planning Tourism in and around Protected Areas: The Key Principles

- Optimizing the Management of Tourism within and adjacent to Protected Areas by Developing Specific Nature Based Tourism Facilities, Products and Services

- Nature Based Tourism Products in Asia

- Overview of Nature Based Tourism Projects  in the GMS National Parks

- Meeting Tourism Management Training Needs of Protected Areas

• Ecotourism markets and product development

  - Worldwide case studies

• Training Material on Tourism & Biodiversity conservation
  

V. Cultural tourism

Under construction

VI. Human Resource Development-HRD-

• Presentations from MTCO Workshop on Vocational Training in the GMS

• ADB documents

• ASEAN competency standards

• ILO

• UN papers

• Country specific documents; Cambodia, Viet Nam

VII. Guides & Publications

Under construction

In this section:

• Responsible Tourism
• Pro Poor Tourism
  • PPT General Guidelines
  • PPT MTCO Workshop presentations
  • Community Based Tourism
• Tourism & Biodiversity Conservation
  • The Essential: guidelines and manuals
  • Tourism & Biodiversity Conservation in the GMS
  • MTCO Workshop
  • Ecotourism
  • Training Material for Tourism & Biodiversity
• Cultural Heritage
• Human Resources Development
• Tourism along GMS Corridors
• Tips & Tricks
• Publications