Much has been written about the development, marketing and implementation of community based tourism projects in the Southeast Asia region. Whether packaged as ?ecotourism?, ?cultural tourism?, ?nature tourism? or more comprehensively, ?sustainable community-based ecotoursim? there is a paucity of published information about the monitoring protocols used to measure community satisfaction and progress towards meeting the good-intentions of these
initiatives. This paper provides an introduction to the UNESCO-National Tourism Authority of Lao PDR Nam Ha Ecotourism Project and provides an overview of the project?s monitoring
protocol.
