Building community capacity for tourism development

✍ Scribed by Gianna Moscardo

• Publisher: CABI
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 197
• Edition: First
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
1 Community Capacity Building: an Emerging Challenge for Tourism Development......Page 14
2 Enhancing the Economic Benefits of Tourism at the Local Level......Page 29
3 Understanding How Tourism Can Bring Sociocultural Benefits to Destination Communities......Page 42
4 Linking a Sense of Place with a Sense of Care: Overcoming Sustainability Challenges Faced by Remote Island Communities......Page 54
5 Community-based Tourism in Asia......Page 73
6 Examples of Effective Techniques for Enhancing Community Understanding of Tourism......Page 88
7 Tools to Enhance Community Capacity to Critically Evaluate Tourism Activities......Page 99
8 Partnerships for Tourism Development......Page 114
9 Enhancing Participation of Women in Tourism......Page 129
10 Entrepreneurship and the Rural Tourism Industry: a Primer......Page 136
11 Perspectives on Leadership Coaching for Regional Tourism Managers and Entrepreneurs......Page 155
12 Capacity Building Through Cooperation......Page 168
Building Community Capacity for Tourism Development: Conclusions......Page 185
C......Page 194
L......Page 195
T......Page 196
W......Page 197