Tourism and Cultural Diversity Projects

“Tourism and cultural diversity projects” is our institute initiatives that aim to promote understanding and appreciation of different cultures through tourism experiences, often by directly involving local communities in the development and delivery of authentic cultural activities, festivals, workshops, and tours, while ensuring the preservation of local traditions and heritage; essentially using tourism as a tool to foster intercultural exchange and economic development.

Key aspects of such projects

  • Community-based tourism: Empowering local communities to design and manage tourism activities that showcase their unique customs, crafts, cuisine, and stories.
  • Cultural immersion experiences: Offering activities like traditional dance lessons, cooking classes, village visits, and language workshops to provide tourists with a deeper cultural engagement.
  • Sustainable tourism practices: Prioritizing environmental protection and responsible tourism practices to minimize negative impacts on local communities and ecosystems.

Exemplification of our institute tourism and cultural diversity projects

  • Indigenous tourism initiatives: Supporting indigenous communities in developing tourism experiences that highlight their traditional knowledge and practices.
  • Festival-based tourism: Promoting local festivals and celebrations as a way to attract visitors and showcase cultural heritage.
  • Artisan tourism: Connecting tourists with local artisans to learn about traditional crafts and purchase authentic products.
  • Culinary tourism: Offering food tours and cooking classes that feature regional dishes and ingredients.
  • Heritage walking tours: Guided tours of historical sites and landmarks with a focus on the cultural narratives of the location.
  • Educational programs: Developing educational tours and workshops for tourists to learn about local history, customs, and social issues.

State benefits of cultural diversity projects in tourism

  • Economic development: Generates income for local communities through tourism activities, supporting livelihoods and local businesses
  • Cultural preservation: Encourages communities to value and protect their cultural heritage.
  • Intercultural understanding: Fosters cross-cultural exchange and promotes tolerance between visitors and local people.
  • Community empowerment: Gives local communities a sense of ownership and control over their tourism development.

Our Institute resolution challenges to consider:

  • Over-tourism: Managing the influx of tourists to avoid negative impacts on local communities and environment.
  • Authenticity concerns: Ensuring that cultural experiences are presented authentically and respectfully.
  • Capacity building: Providing training and support to local communities to effectively manage tourism activities.

Key Programme

For Sustainable Tourism and Cultural Projects; our institute has adopted an INITIATIVES under DIVERSE INTERCULTURAL BLEND to display practically the colour and value of some prominent culture of Nigeria, like Yoruba, Hausa, Edo blending with Cape Verdean unique culture in combination with tradition of English, Portuguese and German cultures; imagine the beautiful outcome of this blend, this is our initiative to promote a global unity, to solve a gender inequality, this type of cultural UNISM can naturally kill the law and practices that discriminate inequality because the effects has to do with emotions and naturalism. We surely collaborates to cordially embrace this initiatives. We will be having different cultural entertainments programs for the tourists and the nationals:

  • Cultural Expanse Dance Performance from different Nigeria cultural origin, like Yoruba bata dance, gangan, iya ilu, sekere, omele, agogo, agbamole, also calabash and stick dance from hausas, ugho dances and drums from edo etc
  • We will be presenting a blend of cape Verdeans batuque, funana and coladeira dances.
  • We will be adding a blend of Portuguese, German, French and British traditional dance to African diverse dance and cultural adoptions.

We have decided to engage more in the area of encouraging more tourists from different countries like Europe, America, Asia and some African Countries to visit more in their large numbers to enhance more accurate results within the expected contexts of our research work.

We officially open an opportunity at our consulting center of the institute for any foreigner that may be interested in visiting Cape Verde, it will surely be a wonderful experience for you in respect to different short culture and hospitality programs available for you as you tour through the beautiful islands.