Cam­bod­ian Rural Devel­op­ment Tours (CRD­Tours) spe­cial­ise in respons­ible tour­ism in the Mekong provinces of Kratie and Stung Treng. All tours dir­ectly sup­port local com­munit­ies and envir­on­mental con­ser­va­tion through dona­tions to CRDT

We opened Kratie Town’s first tour book­ing office at an offi­cial cere­mony at CRD­Tours’ river­side loc­a­tion on Monday, 21st Novem­ber 2011. Backed by the Mekong Dis­cov­ery Trail, CRD­Tours will con­tinue to work to sup­port con­ser­va­tion and local com­munit­ies through sus­tain­able tour­ism, build­ing on CRDT’s pre­vi­ous work in this area.

CRD­Tours is a sequel of sorts, a new name and the next chapter in CRDT’s com­munity devel­op­ment tours of the past five years – big­ger, bet­ter and broader in scope. Income from all tours con­tin­ues to dir­ectly sup­port the work of CRDT by striv­ing to improve food secur­ity, incomes, and liv­ing stand­ards of poor rural com­munit­ies, all in sup­port of envir­on­mental con­ser­va­tion in Cam­bodia. Trips to the dazzlingly beau­ti­ful islands of Koh Pdao in Kratie and Koh Preah in Strung Treng are get­ting together with numer­ous sight­see­ing and exper­i­ence trips from the Mekong Dis­cov­ery Trail to form a wide range of options for any­one wish­ing to dis­cover this region of north-east Cambodia.

CRD­Tours will show that there is more to this stun­ning part of the Mekong than just the crit­ic­ally endangered Irrawaddy Dol­phins by employ­ing local know­ledge and com­munity rela­tion­ships to take people bey­ond the pages of their guide­book for a truly rural Cam­bod­ian exper­i­ence. Those that book with CRD­Tours know that they are mak­ing a pos­it­ive con­tri­bu­tion to the places they visit and the people they meet.

Find out more on the CRD­Tours web­site.