Community participation in the tourism planning process is advocated as a way of
implementing sustainable tourism. There are, however, few studies that detail tangible and …

Indigenous tourism products, attractions and activities can offer a point of difference for
tourism destinations, and consequently the role of, and opportunities for, Indigenous people …

Community participation has been on the spotlight in tourism academia as a tool to induce
sustainable tourism development. However, despite profound commendations of literature …

A large part of the literature analyzing the links between biodiversity conservation and
community development assumes that nature-based tourism managed by indigenous …

Tourism can reduce poverty in developing countries. But tourism growth is not universally
inclusive of the poor. Moreover our understanding of how tourism affects the poor is largely …

Tourism is simultaneously portrayed as a destroyer of culture, undermining social norms and
economies, degrading social structures, stripping communities of individuality; and as a …

A major challenge for tourism as a social and economic activity and as an academic study is
the integration of multiple perspectives into coherent frameworks. This paper explores this …

Ecotourism can be an incentive for conservation, especially when it triggers positive
economic change. Yet it introduces many changes to communities: positive and negative …

This volume reviews indigenous ecotourism as a special type of nature-based tourism and
examines the key principles of conservation and community benefits from indigenous …

The past decade has seen an upsurge of interest from the governments and development
organisations in a tourism-based approach to poverty alleviation. More specifically, poverty …