People-First Tourism Lab Blog

The longitudinal comparison of the previous year’s website visitation performance with the most recent quarterly report provides a snapshot of the overall reach of the project, as well the performance of the website source links and micro-entrepreneur network pages. Additionally, the report includes data about the reach of the project’s scholarship to the public through select social media tools – e.g., this web blog. Some significant changes in offer and marketing are tracked and have shaped the changes in the performance of the website. Here is the most recent report, P1T Dashboard Analytics Report for 1 st Quarter of 2017 ( see inset below ). The report for the 2 nd Quarter 2017 will be appearing in an upcoming posting on this blog. This report revealed that new visitation to the www.peoplefirsttourism.com web marketplace during the 1 st Quarter 2017 has decreased slightly (-3%) over the new visits seen during the 1 st Quarter of 2016. There has been a much higher decre...

We seek a world where travelers develop deep connections with their hosts, are transformed by the genuine local cultures they experience, and improve the lives of the people they visit. Hosts All people have knowledge and experiences they want to share with others .   This is especially true for hosts who are marginalized and who are often the last bastions of traditional cultures and associated ways of living and knowing.   With mentoring and support, many of these hosts will emerge as successful tourism microentrepreneurs sharing knowledge, passions, and communities with empathetic visitors. Communities are complex with constantly evolving factions that use their various capitals to compete, complement, and collaborate with each other .   Some people are better equipped than others to embrace opportunities brought by tourism and, as a result, tourism often fails to improve livelihoods of the least resourced members of host communities. ...