TourismVoices

On this channel Tourism Voices presents its Tourism Voices 2000 project. This project ran between 1998 and 2002 under its original name Holiday Mirror, and gave voice to the opinions of local groups, on how they are affected by tourism. 

It was the first website to offer tourists an insight in the views of the local communities visited, as expressed by these communities themselves. The goal was to reform tourism information by empowering local voices to take over the messaging, and gave voice to local women, youth, environmentalists, doctors, municipalities, opinion leaders, religious leaders, entrepreneurs, teachers and others.

Tourism Voices currently is reviving the project, offering local groups the opportunity to present tourists with their perspective on sustainable and inclusive tourism in their community, driven by local journalists and storytellers, to address the challenges of sustainable tourism development, by engaging the local communities in touristic messaging.