3 Principles of Cotu Tour

 

  * Cotu people are the ones that lead the roles of welcoming customers with warm hospitality.

  * Cotu people are the primary beneficiaries.

  * Cotu people actively join to organize the tour in various roles and interests, and to promote the community development.

 

Cotu people also have following dreams through the tour:

  "We want this tour to be an opportunity to share each others' cultures through interaction with our customers."

  "We want to make our customers feel happy to experience our culture."

  "We want to keep our community safe and clean so that our customers can feel comfortable to stay."

  "We feel happy if the income to our community is increased with receiving customers' appreciation."

 

Cotu Society as a "Community"

 

The noteworthy characteristic of Cotu society is "Community". Their typical behaviors such as "helping each other", "no conflict" and "strong sense of equality" are deeply rooted in the strong tie of the community.

 

This reflects that the numbers of cultural events of Cotu are organized and prepared by the community with mutual cooperation.

 

For example, to prepare the traditional cuisine served as lunch, Cotu people go into the deep forest to harvest and collect ingredients, and they cook and grill in for hours with a variety of fragrant herbs in a charcoal fire.

Cotu people are still engaged in a semi-self-sufficient life to perform agriculture in the mountains and harvest in the forest. When hosting customers, they come back from the mountains and treat customers with hospitality, by all member of the village.

 

These traditional climat and culture established the "Community-united hospitality" tour, because many of the locals wished the tourism which benefits all not individuals by their participation.

 

As mentioned earlier, "Community" is the characteristic of Cotu people, which tourists can experience in this tour. It is not only "sightseeing" but also "everyday-life experience". "Experience Color of Cotu". This makes a big difference with other tour sites of ethnic minorities.