Yachaqui Wayi Responsible Travel Center

Yachaqui Wayi Responsible Travel Center

The Yachaqui Wayi Responsible Travel Centre, a community owned and operated educational resource and promotional centre, has been initiated in 2005 in Huaraz, Peru. It will provide educational materials that help tourists travel in a respectful and responsible way. It will also promote and sell three existing community-based tourism projects run by part of the members of the association, where tourists can have an intercultural experience and contribute to a sustainable development in these communities. Other members of the association are weavers; they will give demonstrations of their sustainable production of weavings using natural dyes. The Centre will also function as a hostel; the third income-generating angle of Yachaqui Wayi.
The members of the association are all local peasants from the mountains around Huaraz, and are participating in capacity-building workshops to run the Centre by themselves, earning a direct income by working at the Centre and indirectly by promoting their projects.
More information on these CBT products on www.mountain.org/work/andes/tourism.