AN INNOVATIVE approach to support sustainable development in traditional communities with tourism potential has been launched with help from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

This will be done via new community-based tourism packages the operators help design, the UNDP says. The initiative expects to build a wider network on the initial matchings - the so-called Alliance of Good Neighbours.

It has initially targeted six traditional communities in Bangkok, including well-known tourism communities such as Banglamphu and Nang Lerng.

Martin Hart-Hansen, the UNDP's deputy resident representative, said tourism was a tool to drive sustainable development.

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