Community-Based Tourism in the Developing World: Community Learning, Development and Enterprise (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility)

This book analyses community-based approaches to developing and regenerating tourism destinations in the developing world, addressing this central issue in sustainable tourism practices. It reviews a variety of systems useful for analysing and understanding management issues to offer new insight into the skills and resources that are needed for implementation, ongoing monitoring and review of community-based tourism. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores alternatives to the dominant interpretation which argues against tourism as a benefit for community development. International case studies throughout the book illustrate and vouch for tourism as a transformative force while clarifying the need to manage expectations in sustainable tourism for community development, rejuvenation and regeneration. Emphasis is placed on accruing relevant decision-support material, and creating services, products and management approaches that will endure and adapt as change necessitates. This will be of great interest to upper-level students, researchers and academics in the fields of tourism impacts, sustainability, ethics and development as well as the broader field of geography.

• | Author: Peter Wiltshier, Alan Clarke
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Oct 17, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 220 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138494305
• | ISBN-13: 9781138494305