EQUATIONS seeks a world where wealth, resources and benefits are much more equitably distributed between North and South. Our vision of tourism fits within that framework. While there is no one transposable model which will work in all situations, we are working toward tourism which bring economic benefits directly to all segments of the host community, particularly including women and indigenous peoples; is subject to local, democratic control, so that communities are making their own decisions about how tourism should be permitted and regulated; is integrated into other community activities, so that it is culturally appropriate and sensitive to the inequities between hosts and guests; enriches both host (economically, developmentally and in terms of control) and guests (culturally, re-creationally). This is in contrast to many current tourism models, which are imposed from the North, require the extensive use of imports, are overly comrriercialised, and reinforce inequities rather than challenges them. EQUATIONS sees tourism not as a means to bring Southern communities into the Northern mainstream, but rather as one of the ways to work toward a more just world.