My first impression about this project is quite positive (though it is difficult to get an opinion from a small description like that - also when looking at its website). The aim of the project is to involve the touareg themselves in the tourism business, or better: to hand over the tourism business to the local people. For me this seems to be one of the most important aims of a social sustainable tourism project.
Also the Studienkreis für Tourismus und Entwicklung is a well-kown association and the To Do award can be taken as a good sign!!
Anyway, one of the dangers of every tourism project is that (if not the outsiders) the local elites try to capture the benefits. We should know more about the project to understand how the local involvement is being organised, and especially which parts of the tourag people are benefitting.
This semester the "work group anthropology and tourism" at the Instut für Ethnologie und Afrikanistik will discuss concrete tourism projects in various regions of the world. Wednesday, Mai 7th (0.41, 12-14) will be the intial meeting to organise the meetings of this semester, which will be hold during two weekends in June. Everybody is invited to join!!