One of the hardest hit industries in the corona virus outbreak is tourism. While crowdfunding is being used to a great extent in the US, it is slowly being adopted by small tourism companies is Southeast Asia.
Sapa Sisters, a small company in Vietnam that offers girls only customized tours, has recently turned to crowdfunding to pay staff. Having a satisfied customer list has helped it raise over US$31,400, surpassing its US$20,000 target from more than 900 donors according to TTG Asia.
Others, like Make a Difference Travel in the Phillippines started a fund drive dubbed “Feed the Farmers Today & Fund Tomorrow’s Forest” which will use some of the funds raised to “purchase trees which the [local] communities are paid to plant so they can continue earning a dignified income.”
The companies are sweetening the offerings by promising tour vouchers, online courses or small gifts.
As Frank Zappa used to say, necessity is the mother of invention.
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