The budget management is a very important aspect to successfully implement a tour. But it will vary from one country to an another and from a tour to another.

To define your provisional budget, you will need to consider some main expenses :

• food
• transportation
• hosting
• material ( this will be a huge one if your are implementing the tour for the first time)
• trainers

Food

Depending on your local supplies you first need to define how much per day and per person you need in order to provide high quality local food. The more participants you have, the less this amount will be, because you will be able to buy big quantities, and you will produce less trash also. The best way to go is to buy all the dry supplies in a organic shop in the city and then to look for the local farmers around the place the venue will take place. If you call them in advance and you let them now the quantities you will need, they will be glad to make you a better price than you will find the shops. This way you will also know the exact prices of what you can get.

Then you have to take into consideration, all the activities day by day, so you will know if you have trainers or hosts eating with you at some point and to add this to your daily food expenses.

Transportation Transportation will be the most important expense, as the heterotopia tours usually take place in rural areas that might be difficult to reach. At this point, you will know if you will be using cars, mini buses or trains. This will have a huge impact in your budget. Let's say that you use cars. You have to define how many cars you will need to move all the participants, to get the supplies and to bring the material. Then, you check witch routes will you take, are there tolls and how much do they cost. If you do this correctly, you can make the best decisions regarding expenses vs time.

Hosting