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“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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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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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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A starter guide to developing sustainable tourism in protected areas

This book is a practical manual on how to develop and manage tourism in protected areas. It is for all those responsible for the management of protected areas as tourism destinations. These include not only protected-area managers but also local authorities, tourism promotion agencies and tourism business associations.
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A Toolkit for Monitoring and Managing CBT

This Toolkit is designed to provide readers with the know-how to set up and run a monitoring programme for a community-based tourism project. It gives step-by-step guidelines, supported by a wide range of case studies, in order to enable readers to embark on their own monitoring project.
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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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ASEAN Community-based Tourism Standard

This ASEAN CBT Standard will be adopted by all ASEAN member states as recommended in the ASEAN Tourism Strategic Plan (ATSP): 2012-15 to create quality visitor experience and cultural assets in a presentable, safe and attractive manner.
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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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Boosting Community-based Tourism and Youth Work for Global Sustainable Development

The Training Courses aim to provide youth workers with knowledge, key competences and tools related to “community-based tourism”.
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CBT Development Guidelines

These guidelines aim at sharing experiences in building community-based tourism models implemented in Bac Ninh under the framework of "Community tourism in traditional craft villages in Bac Ninh" project to improve people's lives in other regions across the country.
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Community Based Tourism Handbook (by REST)

This CBT Handbook was written to communicate the direct experiences of CBT practitioners working in the field. It contains 12 chapters, representing lessons, practical successes and failures in 8 years of experimentation with local communities and their leaders in different project areas around Thailand.
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Community Based Tourism in Zimbabwe: Guidelines for Development

Objectives of this CBT manual are to clarify definition of CBT and its basic principles, and to guide process of development and improvement of the CBT for promoting the CBT. This manual is prepared for promotion of the CBT in Zimbabwe, but it is expected that this manual is also used in SADC (Southern African Development Community) member countries for promoting CBT.
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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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Community development through tourism

As tourism has grown organically in most places with limited planning, some people have been burnt and they now reject tourism as a viable community asset. On the other hand, many believe that tourism is the answer to ‘everything’ and the only means for developing their community.
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Community Tourism and Enterprise Training Manual

In Malawi, where there are strong traditions of natural resource use, legal permits are given for sustainable utilization of natural resources in Protected Areas (PAs). Although the PAs in Malawi have been established for a number of decades, they use what were traditionally communal lands, and in some cases, communities were moved in the past so that boundaries could be drawn.

Action on CBT is working to break the cycle of poverty by empowering communities through sustainable tourism.

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

A critical look at community-based tourism

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

A starter guide to developing sustainable tourism in protected areas

A Toolkit for Monitoring and Managing CBT

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

ASEAN Community-based Tourism Standard

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

Boosting Community-based Tourism and Youth Work for Global Sustainable Development

CBT Development Guidelines

Community Based Tourism Handbook (by REST)

Community Based Tourism in Zimbabwe: Guidelines for Development

Community Based Tourism: Critical Success Factors

Community development through tourism

Community Tourism and Enterprise Training Manual

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