Country: Costa Rica

Organization: University for International Cooperation

Website: www.uci.ac.cr

Project Description:

Build an eclectic and effective portal for community-based tourism in national parks, improving environmental and cultural awareness through capacity enhancement. eConnection represents an alliance of RedParques (LAC Protected Areas network), UCI-ELAP, and community based tourism related to national parks in Latin America, the Caribbean.
eConnection will employ eLearning methods for capacity enhancement of local communities involved, providing constant feedback and recommendations for best practices to improve visitor’s experience and benefits equity for the community.

aespinel's Story:
I think communication is crucial to discover wonderful initiatives and marvelous peoples and places. This platform is a backbone share knowledge among communities, promote them and link them to potential clients. It's also a mechanism to train tourists and value the natural resources.