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Ask any tour operator working with a village cooperative how money gets split, and you'll hear a story. Maybe it's a notebook. Maybe a spreadsheet. Ma...
Last year I watched a tour operator pitch an 'authentic village experience' to a group of funders. The village had no contract, no revenue split on pa...
You’re sitting in a village meeting in Oaxaca, someone’s phone showing a spreadsheet of guest nights and a handwritten ledger of handicraft sales. Two...
Let's be blunt: 'community-led tourism' sounds warm and fuzzy, but the reality is often a knot of competing interests, broken promises, and unintended...
You sit at a worn wooden table in the community hall. Fans whir. Someone passes around a hand-drawn map of the valley. Outside, a tour bus idles—its p...