Here’s the winner of the silver award for Sustainability Champions: Pathfinders: Lokesh Ohri
Anthropologist Lokesh Ohri, Founder of Been There Doon That, has worked in the Himalayas for over a decade, and authored several books documenting the region. He has introduced several sustainable tourism practices in the ecologically fragile region and has worked with the community and inspired youth to join him on this journey of promoting experiential and slow tourism.
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Anthropologist Lokesh Ohri, Founder of Been There Doon That, has worked in the Himalayas for over a decade, and authored several books documenting the region. He has introduced several sustainable tourism practices in the ecologically fragile region and has worked with the community and inspired youth to join him on this journey of promoting experiential and slow tourism.
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00:03 Hello.
00:10 My name is Lokesh Ohri, and I run a group
00:13 called Being There, Doing That, or BTDT.
00:16 BTDT is trying to ensure that the dividends
00:20 of this new experiential travel boom in the Himalayas
00:24 go directly to the communities.
00:27 We help communities curate experiences.
00:30 We help them to run homestays and to run walking trails.
00:35 So by bringing the community and the traveler together,
00:38 we are putting some money in people's pockets.
00:41 On the other hand, we are advocating to the visitors,
00:44 to the mountains, that they should not
00:46 bring their fast-paced lifestyle to the mountains,
00:50 and they should experience nature at nature's pace.
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