Building Community Capacity for Tourism Development
Published on 5. August 2008
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-84593-447-7 (ISBN)
Description
Tourism has become an important tool for development in rural, remote and peripheral regions in the last 50 years. However, in many places, tourism has failed to produce the promised benefits and often caused negative impacts due to a lack of local entrepreneurial capacity to benefit from tourism business opportunities, inadequate understanding of tourism markets and limited community awareness of tourism and its impacts. Drawing attention to the potential outcomes to communities when using tourism as a development strategy, this book provides a focused analysis of this emerging issue and seeks to provide positive guidance on improving the process of tourism planning and development. Chapters compile evidence and examples of how community capacity for tourism can be built and enhanced using case studies from Asia, Africa, South America, the South Pacific and rural Australia and the United States. Providing models and frameworks that can be applied to any developing area, this book will be useful to both academic researchers and government policy makers interested in tourism and rural development.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Wallingford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 261 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
608 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84593-447-7 (9781845934477)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
Part I: Improving Knowledge of Tourism Development and It's Impacts 1: Community Capacity Building An Emerging Challenge for Tourism Development G Moscardo 2: Enhancing the Economic Benefits of Tourism at the Local Level N Stoeckl 3: Understanding How Tourism can bring Socio-cultural Benefits to Destination Communities P Pearce 4: Linking a Sense of Place with a Sense of Care: Overcoming Sustainability Challenges Faced by Remote Communities K Walker Part II: Improving Community Knowledge of Tourism Development 5: Community based Tourism in Asia P Rocharungsat 6: Examples of Effective techniques for Enhancing Community Understanding of Tourism J Sammy 7: Tools to Enhance Community Capacity to Critically Evaluate Tourism Activities K Walker Part III: Improving Community Participation in Tourism Development 8: Partnerships for Tourism Development Amanda Stronza 9: Enhancing Participation of Women in Tourism Haretsebe Manwa 10: Entrepreneurship and the Rural Tourism Industry: A Primer N G. McGehee and C S. Kline 11: Perspectives on Leadership Coaching for Regional Tourism Managers and Entrepreneurs A Blackman 12: Capacity Building Through Cooperation R Monypenny