When : we were established in 15 September 2015 Who: 3 women who had background in humanitarian works and had been working in remote areas in Indonesia Why: we saw the huge potential of tourism industry in Indonesia and how it can change lives of the less fortunate and less educate people within short time Where: we start in Alor island - East Nusa Tenggara province, then expand to Sulawesi, and other areas What: we develop new tours and train the community members to be involved in the tours then we create the system on how to expand and share the knowledge to other people. We advocate to the stakeholders to replicate the system to other villages/areas. How: we train the community members to do the tours & we market the tours to clients. We also find investors and donors who want to support the community tourism businesses

MalaEcoTours

To create many integrated ecotourism businesses that can support community and youth empowerment

Did you know that one of the biggest incomes of Indonesia came from the tourism sector?<div>It is also the only sector who can involve so many people no matter who <span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">they are and what education or social &amp; economy status they have.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b>Tourism also brought chances to gain income, promote sustainable living and nature conservation to the most vulnerable people in the world.&nbsp;</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>MALA Ecotours</b><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">&nbsp;work with local communities to develop <u><b>sustainable &amp; fair tourism in remote areas of Indonesia </b></u>which is also prone to environment degradation caused by climate change.</span></div><div>Support our works and campaigns by <b><i>VOTING FOR MALAECOTOURS</i></b> for us in YSCE Academy competition:</div><div><br></div><div><div><b style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3">What can you do to vote for MALA Ecotours?</font></b></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1. Download aplikasi Campaign</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Android: https://bit.ly/CampaignPlayStore</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">iOs: https://bit.ly/CampaignAppStore</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2. Log In kampanye akun kamu</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">3. Scroll down dan temukan ‘Featured Update’</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">4.&nbsp;Klik Update yang berjudul ‘Vote MALA Ecotours for YSCE Academy 2.0’</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">5. Klik ‘double tap’ pada gambar atau click icon ‘heart’ yang ada di bawah gambar!</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Atau unggah Buku Panduan ‘How to Vote YCSE Academy Finalist’ di link berikut ini:</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">https://bit.ly/HowtoVoteYCSEA</span></font></div></div><div>&nbsp;</div>

Tourism: the best opportunity for sustainability

<div>MALA Ecotours is a social enterprise based in Alor - Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia, we are promoting tourism destinations in Indonesia to create more business and job opportunities for youth and communities in remote islands. All of our tours are created based on sharing-economy, fair-trade and conservation values, we also involved the local communities actively in our tours and train them to be more capable tourists guides. We do these because poverty, lack of jobs opportunities, and lack of knowledge about nature conservation are the main challenges of developing tourism in Indonesia, especially in remote islands.</div><div>Large parts of our profits goes to support social projects like Dugong &amp; turtle conservation project in Alor, mangrove conservation projects, Orangutan conservation projects, local craft &amp; food products development, shoes for kids in remote islands &amp; orphanages, as well as supporting women and children who were victims of domestic &amp; sexual abuse that are staying in a safe house. One of our campaign now is #malaecotours, by buying our tours packages you can support one of the social projects we had been doing since the beginning of our company establishment.&nbsp;</div><div>Together with 4 pilot villages in Alor regency and Adonara regency, we are now opening new tourism-related job opportunities for locals, such as becoming a tourist guide, snorkelling guide, responsible lobster-fishermen, and develop local culture show while conserving the Dugongs and sharks (mainly tresher sharks) that are common to be found in these 2 regions.</div><div><br></div><div>We need support from #BeSociopreneur to escalate our social impacts and exposure for our initiatives. Because not only we need you who care about the People who live in tourism areas, we also need you all to conserve the Places (nature) in Indonesia’s tourist destinations as well as the Partnership to develop the initiatives we had started.&nbsp;</div><div>We believe if we create a scheme where both People and Nature can get advantages from tourism industry, we can solve many problems that Indonesia currently facing such as poverty, unemployment, destructions and degradations of nature especially the sea and coastal areas, gender-imbalance, and disparity which are also the main goals of the Sustainable Development Goals. Together we can say Sustainable Tourism For All.</div><div><br></div><div><b>What can we do?</b></div><div>1. Download aplikasi Campaign</div><div>Android: https://bit.ly/CampaignPlayStore</div><div>iOs: https://bit.ly/CampaignAppStore</div><div><br></div><div>2. Log In kampanye akun kamu</div><div><br></div><div>3. Scroll down dan temukan ‘Featured Update’</div><div><br></div><div>4.&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Klik Update yang berjudul ‘Vote MALA Ecotours for YSCE Academy 2.0’</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">5. Klik ‘double tap’ pada gambar atau click icon ‘heart’ yang ada di bawah gambar!</span></div><div><br></div><div>Atau unggah Buku Panduan ‘How to Vote YCSE Academy Finalist’ di link berikut ini:</div><div>https://bit.ly/HowtoVoteYCSEA</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>

Vote MALA Ecotours for YCSE Academy 2.0

Hire first few people who share the same values.<div>Be customer-centric, understand and communicate with your customers what are their needs.</div><div><br></div><div>Develop your products and the technology that assist them. Let your customers also get used to the developed technology.</div><div>Investors will also help you in publications/branding because they believe in your business values &amp; potentials when they announced that they close the deals with your company.&nbsp;</div>

Develop efficient technology based on customers needs

<div>A good business or good company is based on who are the team members. In MALA Ecotours, we learnt to combine people’s talents, potentials and even challenges to create an effective team.</div><div><br></div><div>We learnt these from the coaching class 1:&nbsp;</div><div><br></div>How to convince investor:<div>- Clear product market<div>- Focus on your business goal</div><div>- Efficient in spending company budget</div><div>- Build communication and network of acquintances, friends, investors - great pitch</div><div>- Join associations will help grow network</div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">- who is involved in company main team and their backgrounds &amp; potentials</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Important to do to grow business:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">- team formations till you get the right team</span></div><div>- try various marketing channels like tiktok, tv commercials, youtube/social media, marketplaces</div><div>- important to have a scalable business plan based on business models to gain trust from investors</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>

Find the right team combination

To get business ideas:&nbsp;<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">- find the gap from potential/major sectors in your country.</span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">HARA works in Agriculture sector. While MALA Ecotours see the potentials in Tourism sector. Both are the main sectors of income in Indonesia.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Research your market and find out more about what are your customers challenges to develop good products/services that answer their needs and they are willing to pay to get the good/services.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Trust your team to grow and give them flexibility &amp; chances by using open communication.&nbsp;</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Transparancy in using sensitive information involved in technology is important as well.&nbsp;</span></font></div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div>

Maximize technology in your company

<span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">How to grow our business:</span><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">- open new</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">&nbsp;locations</span><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">- Diversify products</span></div><div>- Expand to the internet (we focus on internet marketing these years)</div><div>-&nbsp;<font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Win government contract (we’re now trying to get some tenders from government bodies dealing in tourism)</span></font></div><div><br></div><div>Social impact, besides services and the technology that we use are 3 main factors that should be consistent in your company’s DNA.</div><div>Believe in the team’s vision. Find people who believe in your dreams as well to grow the team.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Social impacts and profits need to be balanced to maintain good business. Sometimes people will buy your products because the reason why you do your job and they believe in your values.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don’t grow too fast, take your time.&nbsp;</span></font><br></div></div>