Support Experience Mekong Collection Members

Dear Traveler, Partner, Resident, and Friend of the Mekong Region:

Experience Mekong Collection members provide these locally authentic experiences to travelers and residents alike, which make the Mekong Region so exciting and interesting. Connecting with local culture and its people is the foundation of the Experience Mekong brand.

Now these experiences are in danger of not surviving these difficult times during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many businesses are struggling to pay their employees, and cover their expenses.

We all have a duty and a responsibility to now help these operators, for the better of sustainable and responsible tourism of the region for the short-term and the long-term. At Mekong Tourism, we believe that the Experience Mekong Collection protects and promotes inclusive tourism, and as such has been recognized as a global best practice of tourism promoting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).

In order to help our Experience Mekong Collection members in these challenging, we are listing any businesses that are asking for donations. We are asking everybody to support these small responsible travel businesses, which we recognize as our shining lights of the Mekong Region. Let’s all come together to make sure that these lights will continue to shine for many years to come.

Thank you!

Cambodia Living Arts (CLA)

CLA implements a series of programs with the intention of creating a self-sustaining environment where individuals and communities can be empowered through the arts. Founded in 1998 by musician and genocide survivor Arn Chorn-Pond, CLA’s Community Arts program offers Cambodians the opportunity to learn the country’s traditional arts, while it is Capacity Building program assists motivated students in receiving training to improve their skills as arts professionals.

Sa Ba Street Food Tour

Sa Ba Street Food Tours is a fresh look at Myanmar’s traditional street food for the culinary and culturally curious traveller. In this challenging time, the organization is working together with our volunteering friends at Food Not Bombs Myanmar who are on the front line fighting to get food into the hands of those who really need it. For around 60,000kyat ($45) we can feed 100 people a simple but nutritious dinner and pay the out-of-work street food vendors to cook it. It’s a win-win situation.

Doh Eain

Doh Eain focuses on heritage conservation and urban renewal, restoring and upgrading heritage building and public spaces in Yangon together with residents. The organization preserves heritage, improves public spaces and organises activities that connect people with places, employing a user-centred, participatory approach. In doing this they aim to inspire and enable people to participate in re-shaping their city while retaining cultural heritage. Doh Eain has launched “I Do Nation”, a fundraising campaign that aims to support vulnerable people in our society, starting with street vendors.