PIA seeks to develop a holistic strategy for community development in a participatory & sustainable manner. PIA directorship's training and understanding of the participatory approach come the efforts of the Caribbean Natural Resource Institute, CANARI . We have adopted National Geographic Society’s, Center for Sustainable Destinations’ Geotourism strategy , which is both holistic and participatory. PIA will employ the development of an eParticipatory platform, "GrenadaMacometer.org", to facilitate the transparent and effective administrating & planning; this website platform can also facilitate community assistance for development and sustainability from the support of econsultancy & eCommerce. Most of the entire objective is to develop & sustain socio-economic growth, independently driven by communities, instigated by the mapping of community, and fueled by awareness development, dissemination of information and networking.

Geotourism embraces sustainable development through tourism and focuses on the holistic development of destination; its ecology, heritage, culture and way of life of a community and its people. It is about new levels of relationships between the host Community and the visitor. Through visitor/community interaction, respective cultures are explored, ideas and information are exchanged and new alliances are made.

This concept of sustainability cannot be successful without the participation of communities in its development and management. It therefore fosters opportunities at the community level for locals who wish to participate more fully in the tourist industry. This may range from establishing bed and breakfast accommodation in a rural home to creating income-generating tourism opportunities for an entire village. We partner with the website "Homestays Grenada" for the promotion of  community accommodations. PIA will be targeting the volunteer tourism market that will assist in sustaining and enhanceing the community's development. For this we have partnered with the Global SAVE Travel Alliance development of Science, Academia, Volunteer, Education (SAVE) Travel .

The tourism industry is Grenada’s largest income earner. Community Tourism can be an equitable way of distributing this potential income. However the road to developing community is a long term one and relies on the following:

• stakeholders in  development

• defining the roles and responsibilities of all stakeholders in development

• dissemination of information to empower communities on sustainable methods of development;

• the participatory planning of community development

• the identification of community assets
  

• delegation of responsibility to the communities for the development of their surroundings;

• patience and respect of the communities needs;

• strong & cohesive community organizations;

• identify incentives and benefits for the community ownership of community development

• monitoring and evaluation of communities development in keeping with national asset protection, national physical development plans and national sustainable development strategy  

• clearly defined entry and exit strategy.