New Media Mania

A new extension to MekongTourism.org and ExploreMekong.org, inspired by ‘The Guide to Responsible Tourism in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam’ will be launched into cyberspace by the end of March

In order to expand the potential readership of the book and the geographical coverage of its valuable content, the ‘Mekong Responsible Tourism Guide’ web section will be developed for the Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office (MTCO) by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s ASEAN Competitiveness Enhancement Project (ACE).

MTCO Executive Director Mason Florence welcomed ACE Project’s initiative. “This is a terrific way for global citizens to learn about and comment on responsible tourism activities in the Greater Mekong Sub-region,” Mr Florence said. “We’re hopeful that this will help build the foundation for a new print edition of the guidebook, which will contain information about responsible tourism activities in all six countries of destination Mekong.”

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The “Good Tourism” Wiki is now available to the public.

And it is ad-free thanks to the proud sponsorship of ‘New Media Mania’.

The wiki is intended as a knowledge bank of updated theory, agreements and declarations, reports and guides, best practices, useful links and multimedia resources related to sustainable tourism and responsible travel (aka “good tourism“), contributed by travel and tourism stakeholders.

Everyone’s a stakeholder. That means YOU are welcome and needed.

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PATA has just asked me to shut down its Sustainable Tourism Wiki.

Here’s the note from the Association I was asked to send to all registered users:-

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Tomorrow I leave the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) in good spirits knowing that over five and a half years I have contributed to an organisation that does some outstanding work for travel and tourism in Asia Pacific.

In fact, I hope to stay engaged with PATA in some capacity in my new role as “knowledge management and communications specialist” with the ASEAN Competitiveness Enhancement (ACE) Project; and hope that together we can do so much more.

One of my most recent achievements at PATA, and probably the one I’m most proud of (despite it being almost as easy as this blog to set up) is creating PATA’s Sustainable Tourism Wiki [which has since become The "Good Tourism" Wiki].

Having watched Wikipedia become one of the hottest URLs in cyberspace in recent years it became blindingly obvious to me that the wiki model was perfect for PATA and its efforts to deal with the huge subject area called “sustainable tourism“.

“Sustainable” and “responsible” are two words the Association has in its mission statement:-

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