Local Alike transforms communities by using community-based tourism as a tool to drive green growth, community empowerment, and raise the human capital potential of rural and indigenous communities. We are committed to promoting sustainable and responsible tourism that is sensitive to rural and indigenous traditions and culture. Working collaboratively with community leaders, we pursue a holistic approach to meeting community needs and shaping respectful travel experiences that connect tourists with local communities to generate greater appreciation for the interrelation between communities and the environmental. Building positive experiences for tourists not only supports further social, and economic growth for communities, it generates additional demand for travel experiences that helps reinforce an upward cycle of opportunity for the community-based tourism sector, and communities.  

Local Alike is an expert in community development for community-based tourism and partners with agencies wishing to support community development using community-based tourism tools, enabling communities to produce products and services that meet the needs of tourists or target groups in the tourism sector. For communities whose products and services are ready for market, Local Alike acts as an intermediary to promote and design sales initiatives to customers whose consumer values align with Local Alike’s passion for rural and indigenous communities’ sustainable growth. Local Alike works with more that  rural and indigenous communities throughout Thailand making our organization a trusted stakeholder facilitating and advocating for economic empowerment, including the role of sustainable community-based tourism. Rural and indigenous driven community-based tourism builds a more vibrant tourism industry for Thailand, and adds to the local and national economy.  

Given its critical role in the tourism industry, the Local Alike is involved along the entire chain of the experience, from the upstream to the downstream. As such, we emphasize sustainability in all dimensions, and all stakeholders should operate businesses in alignment with the company's sustainability goals. Particularly, employees within the company are crucial in ensuring sustainability within the organization through every activity.  

The company has a policy that takes sustainability into account in all dimensions, including providing advice and conducting operations with sustainability considerations for organizational clients or government agencies supporting community development through budget assistance with Local Alike as an implementor. The Sustainability Policy covers efforts supporting communities in producing goods and providing services mandating that our affiliates and partners consider sustainability at every level, such as selecting suppliers who prioritize sustainability or meet production standards, offering sustainable services, and promoting goods and services with sustainability in mind to clients. This ensures sustainability from the process of empowering communities, producing products and services, to delivering goods and services that have sustainability embedded from the outset. Local Alike strives to make sustainability a reality in every part of the tourism industry.

Objectives:

1. Clearly define and demonstrate sustainability goals through the company’s operations.

2. Establish internal operational guidelines that lead to the sustainability policy goals as defined.

3. Foster a culture of sustainability within the company and among partners involved in all roles.

4. Encourage broader education on sustainability.

5. Support the promotion of community products and services.

6. Contribute to the creation of a sustainable or circular economy from the grassroots level.

7. Contribute to the promotion of sustainable tourism growth.

8. Expand cooperation among stakeholders in the tourism industry.

9. Minimize the impacts caused by the broader tourism industry, as much as possible.

10. Contribute to the promotion of greater social and environmental responsibility.

People Centric Human Capital Development

Focusing on the development of internal personnel is one of Local Alike’s top priorities, as human resources are the key factor in driving all activities of the company, and relationships with partners and communities, to ensure that sustainability is truly achieved. This is done through clear operational practices that take sustainability into account.

Building the human capital within partner communities is an essential starting point to laying a strong foundation for transforming communities. Enhancing knowledge and understanding of sustainability and fostering social and environmental awareness are critical to creating internal momentum within the community. Additionally, Local Alike's customers and networks need to understand human development to lead to sustainability in the community-based tourism industry.

Sustainable Business Operations

Local Alike is highly sensitive to the impacts of our operations, starting with a management team that takes society and the environment into account, including, but not limited to, sensitivity to our overall green footprint, including selection of suppliers that also value sustainability. This ethos ensure we amplify sustainable business practices in all dimensions. Nurturing community entrepreneurs to operate sustainably is essential and goes hand-in-hand with the Local Alike's own sustainable business operations. Social and environmental impacts from community-based tourism should have clear operational guidelines in place to promote sustainability in the tourism business.

Landscape Improvement

Landscape improvement for tourism is another area that can create sustainability in the tourism industry by improving landscapes in an environmentally responsible way. This includes promoting ecological restoration through landscape improvements, using local plants that are suitable for the environment, restoring damaged nature by planting compensatory greenery, encouraging the use of plants that provide food or habitats for wildlife, or incorporating technology to enhance the effectiveness of sustainable landscape improvements.

Technology

Using technology to enhance work efficiency is a tool that supports the company's operations, making it easier to achieve sustainability objectives and effectively analyze the impact of Local Alike’s business activities. For example, using applications to analyze the carbon footprint of potential tourism programs and employing technology to promote the production of more environmentally friendly products.

Technology is also used as a communication channel to raise awareness of sustainability, serving as a promotional tool to help stakeholders in the tourism industry understand the importance of sustainable business practices. Additionally, it helps promote sustainable tourism and regenerative tourism, enabling greater access to a wider group of tourists.

Society and Environment

Every activity carried out by Local Alike must always consider social and environmental impacts. We work closely with communities to shape activities to avoid negative impacts on society, avoiding division, promoting systematic cooperation, and respecting the way of life, customs, and traditions in the area, including spiritual beliefs of local communities which may not be widely known to visitors.

Furthermore, activities that may impact the environment are analyzed via an environmental impact assessment, as local and national regulations guide, and Local Alike may go further to analyze how programming might upgrade the environment through the organizations cooperation with communities. Environmental conservation, promotion, and restoration activities are prioritized from the planning stages of every Local Alike operation to ensure a positive impact on the environment and harmonization with communities.