About The Project

The Phoenix Project is a community-based tourism (CBT) network. It supports the development and exchange of information, facilitates stakeholder cooperation and contacts, improves the quality of development, further raises the profile of CBT, and performs advocacy activities for CBT and development of target groups (rural, ethnic minority, and poor). In a post-conflict Syria, there will be a great need to coordinate the interests of all community-based tourism stakeholders in the private and public sector and on both a national and international level.  The focus will, therefore, be on participatory community development methods to engage the different stakeholders and contribute to peace building. The project will also contribute to the preservation and renovation of community heritage.

The initiative aims to provide support through mapping, documenting, training, capacity building, marketing, facilitating communication among stakeholders, among others, in the hope of ultimately handing ownership of these initiatives over to the local community.

This network provides a platform through which CBT development can effectively expand and replicate, supported by the improved and continuous engagement of local partners, and the enhanced availability of important information and source of contacts.