Welcome To The World Of Culture Experiential Tourism

Your Open Gateway To The Open Ended, Freedom to Experience, World Of Culture Experiential Tourism

Culture Experiential Tourist - an adventurous person who seeks new experiences, new groups to belong to, new places to see, and new cultures to experience.

Culture Bound - A person who only feels comfortable with people of a certain group, race, language, or activity. A "security oriented" person who prefers the same old way, the tried and true,  to a new experience

Culture Experiential Tourism  - A Win-Win interaction between a tourism provider and a traveler. The AIC program of Culture Experiential Tourism involve developing relationships between people that build self esteem and are mutually beneficial.  We call our programs "Healing Through Tourism".   

Experience the Joy - the  Freedom of Choice Of The Culture Experiential Tourist.  You Are Free to Make New Friends, Learn About Other Cultures And Create Relationships Across Ethnic And Cultural Barriers! The Whole World Is Your Community.  You Belong Everywhere and With Everyone!  You Are A Citizen of the World!

Dr. Carol Cross, Director. 

The Asociación Intibucana de Comunicación (AIC) Offers Seminars, Programs, Activities, Projects, Courses and Culture Experiential Adventures In These Areas.  We Also Offer Consultancy, Training, Certification, Membership, and A Complete Support Program For Tourism Businesses. Additionally We Offer Developing Country Entrepreneurs The Tourism Masters Program - A Step By Step, Begin At The Beginning Program Of Tourism Project Development. A vital part of our services include volunteer programs that enable tourists to give back as much as they receive to the people and countries they visit through the Honduras Volunteer Adventure Projects.  The Tourism Areas We Serve Include

A)  Language Travel

B)  Soccer As a Means of Communication

Programs to learn to play the game played by over a billion people and have the ability to make friends anywhere in the world in the Soccer Communication Center

C)  Tourism Training And Support:

We offer both on site and online tourism training in both Spanish and English

D)  Activities Of The Culture Experiential Tourism Center

Come To Our Mountain Cloud Forest Learning Center for Culture Experiential Travelers as well as  Tourism professional and project owners. Learn to communicate with people from other cultures for business, scholarship, or friendship.   Have fun experiences, get to know other cultures and experience adventure through AIC Horse Tourism experiences, ecotours, and agricultural tours.  Gain the skills to develop Culture Experiential Tourism Projects.  Learn how to develop learning programs for Tourism Staff through our programs..

E)  Development of the Turismo En El Camino Lenca Program

The Turismo En El Camino Lenca Is A Grassroots Tourism Cluster Among The Lenca Indians of Western Honduras. 

F)  The Healing Through Tourism Way School

Healing Through Tourism is a new discipline being developed in the land of the first people of Honduras, the Lenca Indians.  This form of tourism is designed to create healing spaces within a land that is virtually undeveloped.  Here in the land of the Lencas, we are working side by side with indigenous people to create healing spaces on their lands as a WinWin tourism approach. By facilitating sustainable tourism on their lands we will generate income for them at the same time they welcome and heal people whose lives are frazzled, hurried and filled with stress and tension.  This school is a residential school but much of the learning will take place in the mountain aldeas and small communities.

This  residential school is for those who seek to heal the earth and others through the creation of tourism activities that heal.  Our world is in need of healing and you can create spaces in our world where people can come and find the peace, the tranquility, the connection with nature, the self esteem building experiences that rebuild their mind, body and spirit.  Come and learn to be a Tourism Healer in the land of the Lencas.

G)   Honduras Volunteer Adventure Projects

In order for tourism to be win-win, those who travel and have energizing and potentiating experiences need to give something back.  Something back to their host country, something back to the land and most of all something back to the people who share that place with them.  Those who welcome you are often so poor they cannot find enough food to eat.  Often children smile at you in the streets and make you feel good.  You take their photo back home and get pleasure again. Yet those who have created that ambiance you enjoy are hungry, often homeless and many times extremely poor.  We would not be able to develop tourism in a country like Honduras if we did not contribute to the needs of its people and its lands.  That is why volunteering is so powerful.  And since these projects offer pleasureable experiences, growth experiences, even empowering experiences, your giving back simply adds more to the experience.

You are invited to come to Honduras and experience the incredible beauty of this land.  But you are also invited to include a volunteer experience as well.  Our Spanish language and English language programs offer you the opportunity to include volunteering whether it be coaching soccer or teaching English or helping to develop the Tourism in el Camino Lenca program. You will gain more than you give.

Welcome to the most empowering experience of your life.

H) AIC Sustainable Development Center

You can't have sustainable tourism without sustainable businesses to support your tourism projects. That means local businesses need to be supported, assisted and guided to become sustainable.  That means stimulating the growth of trees like Leucaena, plants like kenaf, the support for canewood and handicraft businesses. It means teaching sustainable development concepts, helping businesses develop business and marketing plans.  It means developing websites for local businesses and teaching them about organic gardening to provide healthy food for tourists.  It means supporting energy conservation and supporting the development of renewable energy products. It means helping businesses export so they grow in a sustainable fashion.  It means getting involved in Free Trade and supporting shade grown coffee.  It means assisting small farmers in developing consortiums. It means community building, and it means building local and small scale industries that do not pollute. It means helping communities develop energy farming and carbon farming.  It means doing everything we at AIC can do to create sustainable local economies.  We are here to serve all of the people of rural communites and small cities in develop sustainably.  It means working as a virtual consultant and assisting local consultants in providing services within their countries.  It means finding ways to support the financing needs of sustainable businesses.  We at AIC are here to serve you.  Contact us at honducopa@yahoo.com for information.

About The Asociación Intibucana de Comunicación

The  Asociación Intibucana de Comunicación is based in La Esperanza, Intibuca, Honduras in pine covered mountains.  Because we believe communication and Culture Experiential Tourism is a vital key to world peace, we are developing this learning center to enable people to gain communication skills in an peaceful, empowering environment. This learning center is based on our Edutainment model - which says learning should be hands-on, activity oriented and most of all fun. We are developing a whole new fun curriculum for learning based on our Novella.  In this novella you experience family life, community, cross cultural communication and learn to accept people from other cultures.  Not only will you be learning from the novella, you'll be acting it out and writing passages for it. The Novella will be run online and after your time at the centers, you will be able to log into the novella and continue your learning fun.

Creativity is the window through which Spirit brings new ideas, methods and concepts to our world. There are many forms of creativity from music to art to writing.  Creativity also enriches our world through new ways of doing business to quantum leaps of products like the computer and the internet. New ways of serving people are developed by those following Spirit's leading.

New concepts, ideas and methods make life more meaningful for all of us.  Those who serve as Spirit's conduit for healing our world have a special responsibility. The Asociación Intibucana de Comunicación is being developed because of the leading of Spirit.  Our responsibility is to be true to Spirit's leading, to ensure that we transmit truly the thoughts, symbols, designs and concepts that Spirit sends us.  It is our responsibility to share what has been given to us. Our other responsibility is to ensure that we are able to continue serving as Spirit's Conduit by develop these academies as successful organizations.  We are marketing our products and services through the sustainable methods we have developed.

Our Objectives

We want to be the leader in the facilitation of sustainable development through Culture Experiential Tourism, communication and language learning programs.  We will deploy our own proprietary training methods based on Edutainment. A key component will the continual research and development programs for creating new learning materials and learning methods. We will involve our students and learning participants as learning partners. The use of the internet will be a vital component of all programs. A key component will include many tours, seminars, clinics, workshops and volunteer opportunities.  We want to share our leadership program which involves the development of community, structure, meaning and a superordinate goal through self esteem building. We will be offering communication programs, courses, seminars and projects in Spanish, English, Soccer and Cross Cultural Experiential learning.

Profile Of the Asociación Intibucana de Comunicación

The Asociación Intibucana de Comunicación are being developed by three American expatriates and a Honduran as a learning center. The directors are:

A Message from the Founders

Welcome to our learning center.  The sharing of knowledge, the interaction between people of more than one culture, the learning of other languages is our hope for survival on our planet. Everywhere we see conflict.  Ethnic cleansing. Race wars.  Intertribal warfare.  We see one ethnic group try to prevent other groups from being educated.  As our planet increases it number of people, this will become infinitely more dangerous if we do not find a way to co exist with those who are different from us.

Our only hope is communication.  Finding out about how others live. Seeing them in their homes and understanding that they too are part of a family. Understanding their languages, learning to talk with them and share who you are.  Having WinWin Tourism experiences.  Connecting into a world community.

We know that we are by nature organisms that bond together in groups.  It has been our survival since the beginning of our development as intelligent beings. But these old ways, ways I call negative Mind Clonishness.  Negative Mind Clonishness includes a spectrum of negative energy directed from one group to another simply because they are different from us.  These ideas are cloned from one mind to another,  transferred across generations through teaching in the home and school.

If we do not gain control of these ideas, passed down to each of us from the Pleistocene, they will lead to our ultimate destruction as a species. In effect, our planet is in need of healing.  Our planet itself is reeling from our internecine warfare, our selfish desires to control and rule.  Yet we are intelligent beings. We can stop moving on a flow of consciousness and take volitional control of our lives and our actions.  If we are to heal our planet, if we are to survive, if we are to create a better life, we must gain control of ourselves.

 It is time for a new way of life a way of life based on eliminating the negative Mind Clonishness of the past and moving toward Positive Mind Clonishness which is acceptance of "those others" who may look different, act different, dress different, talk different, even think different.  In order to do this, we need to understand them.  To understand others we must learn to communicate with them.  All of the programs of the Asociación Intibucana de Comunicación are designed to enable us to learn the Tourism skills needed to meet the challenges that face us all in the 21 Century. I believe we will make the intelligent choice to take control of our minds, change our inner beliefs about "those others", and begin to heal our world.

The Asociación Intibucana de Comunicación are being developed to be a key part of this new healing experience, the change in consciousness we need to survive.  Welcome to the new world of Healing through Culture Experiential Tourism.

Our Mission Statement

The Asociación Intibucana de Comunicación (AIC) provides language travel, tourism experiences, volunteer experiences and tourism training in Honduras.  It is a Honduran organization focused on sustainable development in Honduras through tourism. AIC has created a new way of learning how to develop what we call "The Perfect Tourism Experience" based on our Win-Win marketing principles. We see tourism as a form of healing and that is why we call our programs "Healing Through Tourism". AIC is committed to helping people grow, move from being culture bound to become culture experiential and grow as they become free to share our world, our knowledge, our life experience with the people in Honduras who host them.  We seek to participate in tree planting, youth development and a wide variety of empowering, self esteem building and life healing experiences.  Welcome to our Healing Through Tourism world.

 

Links to Intibuca and Lenca Cultural Experiences

AIC Tourism Development Center  | Welcome To The Lenca Road | Turismo En El Camino Lenca  |  Children of Intibuca  | Come and Roast Coffee the Lenca Way  | The Chorro Fest  | About Intibuca | Tour Intibuca On The Central American Fuerte Horse |  Farming In The  Mountains Of Intibuca | Food and the Lenca | Lenca Arts and Crafts | The Lenca People | Lenca Culture | Scenic Beauty is Everywhere | The Heritage of Lempira | The Land of Flowers | The Lenca Indian Culture | The Lenca Mask | The Tourism Municipalidad of San Juan  | The Town of La Esperanza | The Mountain Cloud Forest  | Baile Folklorico de Intibuca |  Muebles Y Artesanias Intibucana | The First Festival Folklorico Intibucana | Manos Ajiles -Women Artisans de Yermaranguila | Intibuca Ranchero Musicians | Live With The Lenca Indians  | The Hotel Molino Real | Learn Spanish In The Lenca Highlands

HOW TO CONTACT US

Teléfono

011-504-783-0199 or 011-504-783-2293

Fax

011-504-783-0054

Dirección postal

Barrio La Lempira, Intibuca, Intibuca, Honduras

Correo electrónico

Información general: healingthroughtourism@caminolenca.com
Ventas: exportfacs@aol.com
Soporte al cliente: honducopa@yahoo.com
Administrador del Web: turismo@caminolenca.com

Or come to La Esperanza Directly

From San Pedro Sula Airport

You will need to get on the highway to Tegucigalpa. It will be marked.  When you get to Siguatepeque, turn right and the road leads to La Esperanza

When you come into La Esperanza

Ask anyone where is COMIXCIL

From Tegucigalpa Airport

You will need to get on the highway to San Pedro Sula. It will be marked.  When you get to Siguatepeque, turn left and the road leads to La Esperanza

When you come into La Esperanza

Ask anyone where is COMIXCIL

Our Address

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