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COMMUNITY STORYTELLING TIME 📨 We have a MESSAGE for all the Community-Based Tourism projects and businesses out there! 🔗 It’s time to sharpen your COMMUNICATION skills and MARKETING tools and take your GRASSROOTS stories on the market! Your VISIBILITY also depends on the TYPE of marketing you are using. ✨ ✨ ✨ Are you telling your own stories? Who else is telling your stories? Do they tell them ETHICALLY? How can YOU help them? Is YOUR NARRATIVE emerging and reaching the right AUDIENCE? ✨ ✨ ✨ 🚀 We are thrilled to inform you that we are offering a new FREE INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP on Community Storytelling. 📖 We will cover the basics of storytelling for Community-Based Tourism, but also practical ways to incorporate it and use it in your Social Media channels. 🧵 We will learn from best practices around the world, and we will also enjoy CO-DESIGNING practices and CREATIVE group activities. ➡️ JOIN US and START TELLING YOUR STORY TO THE WORLD! 📆 DATE: 27th September 2023 🕰️ TIME: 10:00 BST | 11:00 CAT | 18:30 ACST ✍🏿 REGISTER HERE (ENGLISH): https://lnkd.in/dAyy-mEY 🛎️ Contact us TODAY: places are LIMITED! # # # #communitystorytelling #storiesmatter #ethicalmarketing #responsibletourism #sustainabledevelopment #travelmarketing #communitybasedtourism #indigenoustourism #TraditionalCommunities #culturalheritage #womenempowerment #YouthEmpowered #artsandcrafts #environmentalprotection

When, last September, Rupeshkumar K invited me to speak at the 1st Global Women Conference on Gender Inclusive and Responsible Tourism, I had no idea of the kind of event I would attend. What happened between the 30th of November and the 2nd of December in the stunning Kerala hill station of Munnar was an event led by #action and tangible #results (which will be soon shared in the articles I am writing), but, above all, was an event that reserved a considerable amount of time to #celebrate the real protagonists: the local women. Besides the international female speakers present on stage during the panel discussions, dozens of proud and humble women from all over Kerala were invited to receive recognition and even medals of Honour from UN Women. Among them were Anusha and Ambily, whom I met on my previous journey in Kerala thanks to Mr Rupesh and Kerala Responsible Tourism Mission Society and new acquaintances like Salini and Remya. For the session ‘Women in Tourism – Models from around the world’ my presentation was not about my Social Entrepreneurship journey with TravellerStoryteller, but instead brought some reflections on what I observed by working with rural and #indigenous communities in around 30 countries. From Brazil 🇧🇷 to Rwanda 🇷🇼 , from Kenya 🇰🇪 to Nepal 🇳🇵 I realised that successful cases of #WomenEmpowerment have something in common, and I presented some evidence through the #stories I collected at the grassroots level. In the limited time given – that for once I didn’t exceed ;) – I shared visual models that, in my opinion, represent the best environment for women empowerment to thrive. *(I’ll soon share those reflections and thoughts about those too). It was an honour to have such an attentive and engaged audience. I thank again Mr Rupesh and Kerala RTMission Society for the invitation to this exceptional event. The event was #powerful and showed what can be possible when the government, the private sector and the civil society work #together towards the same goal. Women empowerment through tourism is a reality there. Go on #Kerala, continue to lead the way! * It was great to finally meet 'Manisha Pande and Lakshmi Sharath and get to know many incredible women from around the world, including my fellow Associate at Equality in Tourism, Charmarie Maelge and all the other fantastic speakers. Thanks for your contribution! P.S. Iaia Pedemonte, is always a pleasure to meet you around the world! Thanks, Harold Goodwin for the stimulating discussion. Kerala Tourism #womenempowerment #responsibletourism #sustainabledevelopment #storytelling #grassroots #storiesmatter