ABSTRACT
This Handbook offers an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of core themes and concepts in community-based tourism management. Providing interdisciplinary insights from leading international scholars, this is the first book to critically examine the current status of community-based tourism.
Organised into five parts, the Handbook provides cutting-edge perspectives on issues such as Indigenous communities, tourism and the environment, sustainability, and the impact of digital communities. Part 1 introduces core concepts and methodologies, and distinguishes community products from other tourism and hospitality goods. Part 2 explores communities’ attitudes towards tourism development and their engagement with and ownership of the process. It also delves into the role of community- based tourism, under the influence of governmental policies, in the economic and social development of a region. In Part 3 various management, marketing, and branding initiatives are identified as a means of expanding the tourism business. Part 4 examines the negative impacts of mass tourism and its threats to culture, tradition, identity, the built environment, and natural heritage. In the final and fifth part, future challenges and opportunities for community-based tourism initiatives are considered, and research-based sustainable solutions are proposed. Overall, the book considers engaging local populations in tourism development as a way of building stronger and more resilient communities.
This Handbook fills a void in the current research and thus will appeal to scholars, students, and practitioners interested in tourism management, tourism geography, business studies, development policy and practice, regional development, conservation, and sustainability.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|116 pages
Introduction to community-based tourism & community-based tourism initiatives
chapter 4|7 pages
Understanding the facilitators and inhibitors of community-based tourism
chapter 5|18 pages
A longitudinal study of articles published on community-based tourism and sustainable development
chapter 6|10 pages
Ethno-ecological community-based tourism from within
chapter 8|13 pages
Community-based tourism, a means towards cultural heritage preservation
part 2|90 pages
Community-based tourism initiatives and community engagement
chapter 10|11 pages
The role of women’s leadership in community-based tourism development
chapter 13|14 pages
CBT in rural peripheral areas
chapter 14|10 pages
Contested perspectives towards the benefits of community-based tourism
part 3|114 pages
Management of community-based tourism & initiatives
chapter 17|16 pages
Contribution to a management model for the parish of El Cisne
chapter 21|9 pages
Community readiness to green tourism initiatives in less developed parks
chapter 22|12 pages
Managerial capabilities of a CBTI in transforming communities into CBTEs
chapter 25|14 pages
Critical success factors for community-related corporate social responsibility in the hotel sector
part 4|57 pages
Paradoxes of community-based tourism & initiatives
chapter 26|7 pages
Paradoxes of travelling alone
chapter 28|10 pages
Saving the leatherback turtle in Grande Riviere, Trinidad
part 5|138 pages
Future challenges and opportunities for community-based tourism and its initiatives