idGuides’ latest Great Trails impact project
Initiated during the pandemic to support Bali’s communities to survive and thrive beyond, the GBT 2020-2024 has been financed entirely by idGuides’ pre-panemic profits and pandemic-era GBT revenues from domestic tourism sales, re-invested back into support Bali and further develop The GBT.
An impact model for new trail destinations
The GBT seeks to pilot, improve and introduce T4PP as an applicable trail ecotourism model for ecosystems and communities around Indonesia and the world, where a sustainable trail destination could combine a zoning system and tourism market mechanism which engages, empowers and compensates communities as environmental stewards and green entrepreneurs.
The result GBT 2021-2024 so far is a practical model which uniquely combines an adventure trail operating system, sustainability impact model and a purpose-built digital marketplace: ie:
the Team idGuides operating system
the Trails for People and Planet (T4PP) impact model
the purpose-built digital marketplace by Great Trails
With additional development funding, the Trails for People and Planet model would be applicable to any region, at small to large scale, eg as an eco-resort; district destination; as a green economy buffer-zone to conservation areas (eg. national parks) and smaller scale for community conservation areas such as community forests, wetlands, coastlines and mangroves.
“A purpose of The Great Bali Trail is to invest in local people in Bali’s rural villages by creating a world-class trail destination, connecting communities to a sustainable modern trail-tourism low-carbon economy, operated by competitive village entreprise and community trail guides, unified and empowered by a common operating standard, impact model and digital market platform.”
~ Krystyna Krassowska, idGuides Founder and Sustainable Development AdviserHere’s how we are developing The Great Bali Trail
Learn about the idGuides’ Trails for People and Planet four-step process to develop The Trail ~ from Introduction and village engagement, to participatory trail mapping and product development, to Team idGuides Community Trail Guides training, to the first visitors!
