Community-based
Ecotourism Consultant
William Tuffin
Bill Tuffin
Tourism can be a positive experience for everyone
Dedicated to quality sustainable tourism solutions for
communities.
The Future of Tourism
Increasingly today's tourists are demanding a style of tourism which is socially
and environmental responsible. They want to have meaningful and personal
interaction with locals. Most importantly they want to know that the destination
has benefitted from their presence economically, socially and environmentally.
With global warming in the news, they want feel confident that their travels
have not contributed to climate change.
The Consultant
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Bill Tuffin
Community-based Tourism Consultant |
My unique skill is an ability to bridge the worlds of development aid and
business, of the Westerner and the Asian and the city dweller and the farmer. I
have years of hands-on experience with rural communities helping them to solve
not only with tourism related issues but primary health care and drug addiction
issues. I have experience in developing an ecolodge from conception,
construction to an award winning international recognized Ecolodge. In my work
with a local tour operator and tour guides, I was able to development
successful mutually beneficial relationships between the guides, the tour
operator and the communities. My approach to business places a priority on
socially and environmentally responsible business practices.
Marketing Director of
The Boat Landing Guest
House until February 2007, for over 8 years.
I worked with staff and owners
to be the first Eco-lodge be achieve
Green Globe benchmarking
two years in a row and to receive a high commendation for Best Hotel at the
Responsible Travel Awards.
Marketing & Community-based Ecotourism Advisor
for
Green Discovery Laos
for 2 years. As a representative of the company, I worked to development
community-based tourism programs in 12 villages in
Luang
Namtha, Laos. In addition, I advised the company on internet marketing,
website & brochure design, wrote trip descriptions for their website and
brochure, represented the company at trade shows and developed personalized
package itineraries for FIT clients and tour operators.
As a Community-based Ecotourism Development Consultant
for GTZ,
I worked with Akha villages to develop community-based tourism program called
The Akha Experience.
The program was developed in partnership with a private tour operator,
Exotissimo, who acts as
the sales marketing agent for the 8 villages
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