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	Location	Ghent , Belgium
	Gender:	Male
	Who is joosts?	I'm a regular Joe with too much time on my hands. I just spent a year of travel and voluntary working, and am now trying to readjust to the superb country of Belgium. First stop was Jaén, Peru. I'd like to try to promote (a more social) tourism whereever I may go. In Jaén and around the social part meant trying to show that their can be development without allowing mining industries (destroying forests and water cycles). For the tourist it means going places rarely ever visited and spreading ideas around on how to use the local strengths without destroying them... After a while I wound up in Coroico, where leaving was the hardest. I kind of fell into a tourist information project. It's a very diferent situation than in Jaén, because it's a "big" tourist destination already. But there still is a lot to do to improve services and to use tourism against inequality (not that we ever really tackled that issue...). websites: www.vima.org.pe - the organisation i volunteered for in peru www.xanga.com/joostschouppe - my blog, in dutch, not exactly interesting, but it has some nice photos member.hospitalityclub.org/joostjakob - my profile on the hospitality club, a free hospitality exchange network. You can mail me about anything.