Benchmarking aims to research, analyze, and filter useful strategies from related businesses in order to turn them into potential initiatives. At Raízes Desenvolvimento Sustentável, we use this methodology in our…
The moment we’ve all been waiting for has arrived: it is time to meet the projects selected for the 2nd edition of the Mentoring for Small Tourism Businesses, promoted by…
A comforting feeling is that of accomplishment at the end of each completed project. And it is with this feeling that we end another cycle in the community of Barão…
Racial literacy is one of Raízes’ anti-racism strategies. The Brazilian Academy of Letters defines it as a set of pedagogical practices that aim to make individuals aware of the structure and…
To talk about sustainable economy, today we are going to learn a little more about the reality of agro extractivism and family farming cooperatives and the challenges they have in…
Traveling whilst doing good deeds at the same time seems twice as wonderful, doesn’t it? And it is! This sort of exploration exists, and it is called voluntourism. Many…
Dona do Meu Fluxo means owner of my own flow and it is a project created and executed by Raízes in partnership with Korui. The project has a new date…
Following here, an article by Tourism Watch about tourism experience in Brazil : “Come in, the house is yours!” Many Brazilians still use this old saying to make visitors feel…
Colombia is using community-based tourism in an alternative way, considering destructive economic sources such as mining, and also as a local development tool in new peaceful times. Teenagers that used…
Undertake projects that valorise tourism-related production and local genuine identity is a lot gratifying to us. Sabores do Morro market is one of these projects, and it has just completed…
