Hon Mot Community Based Tourism

Judging the cookery competition

A small project I put together as part of the Hon Mun MPA Project was working with local ladies on Hon Mot Island to provide basic tourism training and infrastructure for visitors.  The focus of this was organising cookery  classes (which had the added benefit of sneaking in nutritional and hygiene training too), to which I was the judge in the final competition.

The training remit was simple - teach local participants to make good, cheap, tasty food from locally available ingredients, market it well, and sell to the passing boat trade for a good profit.  The project actually worked well, there was enough trade from independent boat trips to use the facilities on the island, and a small trade developed in providing deck chairs and sun-shades.  Click here for pictures.