Community-Based Tourism in the Developing World

<p>This book analyses community-based approaches to developing and regenerating tourism destinations in the developing world addressing this central issue in sustainable tourism practices. </p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>