Community-based Ecotourism Consultant

Helvetas, founded in 1955, is the largest Swiss-based and a leading European development non-governmental organization. We work in developing, emerging and transition countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, partnering with poor and disadvantaged people to improve their livelihoods, strengthen local actors and create an institutional framework conducive to sustainable development. Helvetas has been operating in Vietnam since 1994 in the areas of agriculture, forestry, governance, water and sanitation, and rural development.

Helvetas Vietnam, in a consortium with WWF, IUCN and Fauna and Flora International (FFI), were recently selected to implement USAID's Vietnam Biodiversity Conservation, a five-year project covering five provinces of central Vietnam. Helvetas Vietnam has the overall responsibility for the conservation-friendly enterprise development component, targeting forest-dependent communities bordering national parks in Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Thua Thien Hue, Quang Nam and Lam Dong provinces.

We are looking for national consultant/consultant team to identify a set of potential locations and communities suitable for Community Based EcoTourism and also to identify a set of potential partner tourist companies in 5 mentioned project provinces. Please find attached the Scope of Work (SOW) for the objectives and tasks for conducting this mission.

Requirements for qualification and skills

• Strong background in the field of ecotourism, community tourism, responsible tourism.
• Having deep understanding of local and international tourism market in general, and community-based eco-tourism in particular.
• Having extensive relationship with travel agencies
• Working proficiency in spoken and written English is mandatory.

Interest candidates please send updated CV and detailed proposal to Helvetas.vietnam@helvetas.org before July 25th, 2021. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.