Community-based tourism in the developing world : community learning, development and enterprise / edited by Peter Wiltshier and Alan Clarke.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Principles and practices: case studies in innovation -- A benchmarked step by step community-based tourism (CBT) toolkit for developing countries -- Systems approach to community-based tourism -- A responsible CBT approach -- Community-based festivals in the context of community based tourism -- Rethinking tourism in Belarus: the opening of a rural economy -- The importance of information and communication technology for dissemination, commercialization and local protagonism in community-based tourism initiatives: a case study of CBT in Castelhanos, Ilhabela, Brazil -- Community-based tourism: planning processes and outcomes in the developing world -- 'Meet the locals': community tourism - an approach to combat over-tourism in Malta and Gozo -- Reviewing the background to success in communities developing tourism: an evolution through participant observations -- The path: from agricultural country to popular travel destination -- Community-based tourism: the Romeiros way in São Miguel island in Azores/Portugal -- Community based tourism - the kiwi variation -- Community-based tourism engagement and wellbeing from learning perspective -- Systems, stakeholders, storytelling: tourism development and conservation in the peak district and the balaton highlands national parks.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.