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10 Aug

Banking on Protected Areas: Promoting sustainable protected area tourism to benefit local economies

While governments see protected areas as key to addressing biodiversity loss, protected areas are often overlooked in economic development plans and economic recovery strategies. One reason for this is that data gaps make it difficult to demonstrate protected area tourism’s far-reaching stimuli to national and local economies, especially in developing countries.

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10 Aug

Community-based tourism in Protected areas: Elaborating a model from a South African Perspective

Community-based ecotourism (CBET) shares many of the values and challenges of community-based tourism (CBT) but must also consider the interaction of local communities and the environment, often in areas of controlled or restricted use.

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5 Aug

Community-based tourism development model and community participation

This paper explores the relationship between Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) and CBT by proposing a model depicting the various stages of TALC in relation to CBT, community participation and type of tourist.

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4 Aug

Community-based and pro-poor tourism: Initial assessment of their relation to community development

Alternative forms of tourism development from its conventional approach such as community-based tourism (CBT) and pro-poor tourism (PPT) are proposed to be specifically relevant to alleviate poverty and facilitate the development of disadvantaged community members.

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4 Aug

An Integrated Systems Approach to Managing Tourism Growth: A Destination Marketing Organization Perspective

From a destination perspective, tourism takes place in a series of embedded systems – tourists, enterprises, clusters, destinations, and the larger social/economic/political system. In order to maximize the benefits of tourism each of these systems must perform key tasks that maximize the benefits of tourism and/or mitigate or reduce the costs of tourism.

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4 Aug

“Community-Based Creative Tourism” as a Strategy for Poverty Reduction

This paper has been extracted from a thesis research proposing a new tourism model for rural communities: Community-Based Creative Tourism. It includes a review of the existing literature concerning Community Tourism and Creative Tourism. Without compromising the identity, tourism provides an important impulse of enhancing culture and creating income which can support and strengthen cultural heritage, cultural production, and […]

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4 Aug

A management model to assist local communities developing CBT ventures: a case study from the Brazilian Amazon

CBT can improve the well-being of local communities through the generation of economic and social benefits. This study proposes a management model that may be employed to assist local communities develop ventures of this nature

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4 Aug

The Business of Community Based Tourism: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach

The present paper attempts to weave together the theory and practice of CBT. Though the idea of community-based development is age-old, its adoption into tourism is relatively recent. The paper examines how CBT can be a panacea for many of the evils of the mainstream industry driven mass-tourism. It exhorts that, while community is at […]

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3 Aug

Community Based Tourism: Critical Success Factors

This work appraises a CBT initiative in Peru by GAP Adventures and Planeterra Foundation. The author(s) aim to determine whether it is leading to improvements in the lives of the participants and the community, by analyzing the impact, the method of implementation and the commercial viability of the project.

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2 Aug

Tourism and the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach: Application within the Chinese context

This thesis incorporates a review of the literature on rural and tourism development. Gaps between the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) and tourism are identified. It is suggested that the SLA cannot fully address the issues when tourism is used as a rural livelihood strategy.

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