Tourism Voices from the SaPa, in Vietnam, 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.
Vietnam, Sapa
Women in Sapa carry a lot at once, she explains: being a good wife, helping support the family's income, and holding on to the traditions, values, and family life that keep the community together. In her eyes, that makes women and men equal, even if the work looks different.
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A forest ranger on an illegal climb up Fansipan that happens anyway, and guides who'd rather pay the fine than lose the work.
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A local woman on unwritten equality between men and women, new cultural shows staged for tourists, and a town changing faster than anyone can control.
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A teenage souvenir seller on splitting earnings with friends, learning English from tourists, and missing years of school she says she doesn't regret.
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A hotel owner on booming competition, a town with no building rules, and land that, on paper, is never really his to sell.
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