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2 Aug

Community-Based Tourism: a success?

This research project identified and analyzed examples of CBT projects which were identified by funders, conservationists and development workers as successful, allowing them to define “successful” as they wished; and then to approach the “successful” initiatives to seek data on that success.

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2 Aug

Connecting the Sustainable Livelihoods approach and Tourism

Tourism has been increasingly used for and directly linked with rural poverty reduction in developing countries. However, the application of, and to an extent the principles of the widely used organizing framework for considering poverty reduction, the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA), may not fit fully the tourism situation, and vice versa.

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2 Aug

Tourism Product Development and Marketing Strategies in the COMCEC Member Countries

The Study is designed to lead from the elaboration of the key principles to guide and underpin tourism product development and the marketing strategies to support their implementation through to specific conclusions and recommendations applicable for the different categories of COMCEC Member Countries in the creation and marketing of successful tourism products.

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1 Aug

A critical look at community-based tourism

Community based tourism (CBT) could be one way of creating a more sustainable tourism industry. This article critically reviews the CBT approach in light of fieldwork in a North Queensland tourism destination. The literature on CBT has three major failings from a community development perspective.

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