Peers from Penn State develop video pitch

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A quick kudos to our peers in Penn State's Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship program who have just developed a short video pitch for People-First Tourism.  We will use this video pitch to recruit partners in Kenya and Tanzania for the pilot implementation of our system in East Africa. 

People-First Tourism video pitch on Youtube

Please do check it out and let us all know what you think.  And stay tuned about our efforts to launch the People-First Tourism system in select regions globally this year.

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