Working Process

Guest Speakers to Share Regional Best Practice

• Social Mapping : review of the goals of the CBT Forum; disscussion of which aspects of community based tourism and sustainable development the forum would focus on; identification and shortlisting of countries with comparable contexts to Thailand to invite to share lessons learned.

• Establish guidelines for selecting case studies and rules of selection

• Introduce the project and invite CBT representatives from the selected countries and the different Thai regions to participate in the conference.

Regional Forum in Ubon Ratchatani	Regional Forum in Chiang Mai
Regional Forum in Bangkok	Regional Forum in Songkhla

• Selection of Best Practice case studies and the research team will visit the selected Thai communities in order to write the case studies;

• Community Based Tourism Forum 2010 CBT as a tool for sustainable development: Best practice, lessons learned and meeting the challenge of the next decade.
  19th to 20th August, 2010, at the Grand Ballroom Century Park Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand.

Note :
A pre-trip will be organised to visit 2 Community based tourism communities closeby :

• Baan Bang Nam Phueng, Samut Prakran Province
• Baan Huay Reang, Trad Province



If you are interested to participate in the conference, or join a pre-trip, please contact forum@cbt-i.org