Pamir Eco-Cultural Tourism Association

PECTA follows the following aims and objectives: * Create of a modern highly developed and a competitive tourist market in the Pamirs; * Make an impact on identifying social, legal and economic strategies which conform to the professional interests of the Association and their effective introduction through representative and executive powers; * Counteract to the monopolization of the tourist activity; * Contribute to the development of travel agencies, marketing of tourist services and ethical market relations in Tajikistan; * Protect interests of local tourist service providers who are the members of the association; * Help to set up favorable financial and economic conditions to members of the association; * Lobby the interests and the services of the members of the association at the internal and international markets; * Establish foundation for the development of ecological tourism in the Pamirs; * Use of local opportunities and skills to alleviate poverty level of population through mobilizing communities in the field of the international tourism; * Generation of unique forms of local places of interest for various types of tourism, such as ethnographic, cultural, historical, archeological, anthropological, and ecological; * Fostering development of local handicrafts, folk craft and folk art of the people of Pamirs to provide tourist market and revival of the basics of the traditional economics; * Creation of favorable financial and economic conditions to members of the association; PECTA is also a member of the Tourism Coordination Council under the local government of GBAO. PECTA Information Centre