Our Mission

To develop, consolidate, coordinate and promote the humanistic, cultural, heritage, historic, solidarity and environmental programs and to incorporate them into the Palestinian tourism and cultural developmental frame through the establishment of a representative coalition of common efforts producing tourism programs with a distinct Palestinian identity.

Our Goals

1. Developing the Palestinian tourism product, its competitive advantage, and the general impression about it and reflecting a positive Palestinian Image.
2. Consolidating all available programs and activities that can be incorporated in the tourism package (both domestic and international)
3. Promoting these programs with MOTA, the private tourism sector and the municipalities
4. Initiating a new tourism sector representing the humanistic, cultural, heritage, historic, and solidarity programs that has the potential to provide a Palestinian flavor to the existing tourism product and to its competitive capability.
5. Networking with associated organizations
6. Creating job and employment opportunities, and reducing unemployment and brain drain
7. Advocating laws and regulations to protect the architectural heritage
8. Creating cultural, economic and artistic leaders and lifting the overall awareness of the local communities.
9. Creating the proper, basic and secure environment for receiving and serving guests Securing the geographical distribution when consolidating and coordinating programs

What We Do

The Network of Experiential Palestinian Tourism Organizations (NEPTO) is an umbrella organization representing the interest of community based tourism development in Palestine. NEPTO has attempted to bring together all the organizations whose work is related or linked to the efforts of community based tourism advancement in Palestine and who work closely with and through the various communities all over Palestine.

NEPTO has 5 different departments all of which contribute to the overall picture of community based tourism in Palestine. These departments are: a. tourism advancement, festivals, fair trade and local production, wild life and environment and architectural heritage preservation. Our member organizations are involved in different areas that serve these departmental interventions and work collectively to advance a different approach to tourism, an approach that is concerned with the protection of Palestine’s resources, capacities, culture, heritage, environment and production as much as it is concerned in advancing the prosperity and empowerment of the local communities with particular emphasis on the more marginalized.

NEPTO represents community based tourism in Palestine and abroad. Representatives of NEPTO attend the various tourism fairs, conventions and conferences in order to promote the activities of community based tourism in the Palestine with particular emphasis on the marginalized communities.
NEPTO is a lobbying and advocacy tool for the interest of community based tourism in Palestine. It exerts as much effort as possible to lobby the various representatives of the public sector, particularly the ministry of tourism and antiquities in order to further the purpose of the local communities and the advancement of domestic and international tourism in their areas.
NEPTO weaves a number of relevant partnerships with the private tourism sector as well as other civil society organizations working in culture, education and community development like youth clubs, women organizations and local  producer groups, in order to open opportunities for the less known, yet historically and culturally rich destinations to find their rightful position on the Palestinian tourism map and in order to foster the competitiveness of the Palestinian national tourism product.
NEPTO provides technical assistance and minor support for its weaker members particularly those directly serving their communities.
NEPTO consolidates the activities, programs and events of its member organizations in one web portal for the discerning visitors to more easily find and locate what suits them best.
NEPTO produces a webpage, a brochure and a booklet of all of its activities as well as all of its member organizations
NEPTO organizes ad hoc conferences to promote the advancement of community based tourism and to foster Palestine’s global position in this respect.