Influencing factors of community participation in tourism development: A case study of Xingwen world Geopark

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
SHUI Wei
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Tourism Development

Facilitating collaboration and community participation in tourism development: The case of South-Eastern Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 146735842096603
Author(s):  
Afamefuna Eyisi ◽  
Diane Lee ◽  
Kathryn Trees
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Southeastern Region

Collaboration and community participation are crucial for securing sustainable tourism and highlight the need to listen and respond to the broad range of stakeholders’ voices, opinions, and concerns. These concepts dominated the discourse of sustainable-responsible tourism and gave rise to collaboration theory as well as various types of community participation. Many scholars in both Western and emerging economies have employed these concepts; however, there is limited research on how they apply in the Nigerian tourism industry. Therefore, this exploratory research discusses collaboration and community participation in tourism development in Nigeria, using the Southeastern region as a case study. In this area, tourism is in the early phase of growth. The paper reports on interviews and focus group discussions used to interact with tourism stakeholders in the region (traditional rulers, men, women, and youth representatives, chief priests, security agents, and tourism officials). Results showed that while the stakeholders are willing to collaborate, challenges affecting their efforts include autocratic governance structures leading to mistrust, clash of responsibilities, inadequate funding for security, lack of tourism awareness and little respect for local culture. The paper concludes that to develop a resident-friendly tourism destination and sustain collaboration and community participation, stakeholders require education about tourism and opportunities to participate in planning.

scholarly journals IMPACTS OF THE WORLD HERITAGE LIST INSCRIPTION: A CASE STUDY OF KAIPING DIAOLOU AND VILLAGES IN CHINA

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-69
Author(s):  
Wei Han ◽  
Jianming Cai ◽  
Yigang Wei ◽  
Ying Zhang ◽  
Yan Han
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative Impacts

This study aims to investigate the overall impacts of the World Heritage List (WHL) inscription in China from different socioeconomic aspects. Kaiping Diaolou and Villages was chosen as the case study because the long period of preparation for WHL inscription led to residents’ deep understanding of its heritage values. Results are as follows. (1) Cultural cognition, sense of belonging, community cohesion and infrastructure were positively improved by the WHL inscription, whereas damage to the community cultural environment slightly increased. (2) In the economic domain, the WHL inscription had generated positive (increase in tourism development and villagers’ income and employment and solution to the Diaolou property rights problem) and negative impacts (worse tourism development, unequal income and unsolved property rights problems). (3) The WHL inscription improved the ecological environment and people’s attention to environmental protection. Although it also caused environmental damage due to an increase in tourists. (4) The positive impacts on the political domain were reflected by government leadership, community participation and plan and legislation, whereas the negative impacts included limited community participation and insufficient planning. Innovations of this study include constructing a theoretical framework to evaluate the impacts of WHL inscription, analysing the present factors of WHL inscription’s impacts and providing development suggestions.

scholarly journals LOCAL ECONOMIC STUDY ON TOURISM DEVELOPMENT OF HALAL CASE STUDY: RINJANI CIRCLE AREA, SEMBALUN SUB DISTRICT, EAST LOMBOK DISTRICT

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Ima Rahmawati Sushanti ◽  
Mustamin H. Idris ◽  
Baiq Harly Widayanti
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Institutional Capacity ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Economic Study ◽  
Halal Food

Halal tourism is the brand for West Nusa Tenggara province. Sembalun as one of kosher destination is part of Rinjani circumference and designated as a World Geopark by UNESCO. This study is aimed to assess the local economic empowerment base on halal tourism in Rinjani. The descriptive qualitative method was chosen to analyze the data. TheParticipatory Rural Appraisals used as an instrument to identify the expectations of the local economy, society. The study showed that local economic empowerment that could be developed as follows: 1) Halal food initiative through increasing community participation and skills, involving institutions, providing intensive assistance, and increasing the role of community and institution in creating cooperation, 2) Worship facility, improvement through increasing quality and maintenance of available worship facilities, 3) Services during Ramadan by improving the community and institutional capacity as well as delivering information to tourism operators and visitors, 4) Supporting facilities upgrading through increasing the nullah number of water-friendly toilets both quantity and quality

Perceived sociocultural impacts of tourism and community participation: A case study of Langkawi Island

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mastura Jaafar ◽  
S Mostafa Rasoolimanesh ◽  
Safura Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The Relationship

Using partial least squares-structural equation modeling, we investigated the relationship between residents’ perceptions of the sociocultural impacts of tourism development and community participation in Pantai Cenang, Langkawi Island. We also investigated the moderating role of gender, age and education level on these relationships. The results revealed significant positive relationships between the positive and negative perceptions of residents and community participation; moreover, residents’ gender and age had a moderating effect on these relationships. These findings have implications for tourism development planners and government authorities seeking to expand the involvement of local residents in tourism developments.

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