Story 1: Computers for the village On one tour, a tourist decided that he wanted to help a village that they had visited on the tour. He decided to donate 3 computers to the village. The guide helped him to find and buy the computers and give them to the village. Unfortunately no one in the village knew how to use the computers, or how to look after them if there were any computer problems, so they were never used, and the village did not get any benefit from the generous act. What was the issue? What could the guide rather have done? Answer: Guide should have contacted tour operator management, which would have encouraged pax to redirect money elsewhere. Story 2: Helping the village school One day, as a tour guide was travelling through a village with some tourists, he decided to do stop at a village school so that his tourists could hand out sweets/candy, pens and books to the school children. They walked into the school while classes were taking place, and went into the classroom and handed things out. This disrupted the class and the teacher. The children also got an impression that tourists are like heroes and come and hand over nice things to them. They therefore think that all tourists should do that. What was the What could the guide rather have suggested the tourists do? Answer: Best to give materials to a responsible village elder, away from the school, for later distribution. Economic Responsibility Time: 10 min
Story 1: Computers for the village On one tour, a tourist decided that he wanted to help a village that they had visited on the tour. He decided to donate 3 computers to the village. The guide helped him to find and buy the computers and give them to the village. Unfortunately no one in the village knew how to use the computers, or how to look after them if there were any computer problems, so they were never used, and the village did not get any benefit from the generous act. What was the issue? What could the guide rather have done? Answer: Guide should have contacted tour operator management, which would have encouraged pax to redirect money elsewhere. Story 2: Helping the village school One day, as a tour guide was travelling through a village with some tourists, he decided to do stop at a village school so that his tourists could hand out sweets/candy, pens and books to the school children. They walked into the school while classes were taking place, and went into the classroom and handed things out. This disrupted the class and the teacher. The children also got an impression that tourists are like heroes and come and hand over nice things to them. They therefore think that all tourists should do that. What was the What could the guide rather have suggested the tourists do? Answer: Best to give materials to a responsible village elder, away from the school, for later distribution. Economic Responsibility Time: 10 min
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