Tourism Voices from Luang Namtha, in Laos, explore how local communities experience tourism and how they would like tourism to develop.
Stories from this region include the perspectives of local residents, entrepreneurs, young people and other groups involved in tourism.
Laos, Luang Namtha
There aren't enough trekking bookings in Luang Namtha for anyone to guide full-time, so the guides here take turns and fill the rest of the week teaching at the local school or working other jobs. Still, one of them says, it's genuinely good work.
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A family running one of Luang Namtha's guesthouses on generators, trekkers passing through to China, and a town with nothing much to complain about.
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A local guide on sacred entrances, mandatory briefings, and why unguided tourists keep making the same well-meaning mistakes.
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A young woman on free schooling, borrowed fashion, and the quiet hope that tourism might fix what the town still can't.
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