Community participation in tourism development as a tool to foster sustainable land and resource use practices in a national park milieu

Wondirad, Amare; Ewnetu, Biruk

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104155

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“…According to Kibicho (2003), the integration of various interested parties (with equally varied interest) into the tourism industry while at the same time guarding the importance of developing a 'workable tourism management strategy' remains a real challenge to many tourism destinations. Other studies (Mitchell and Muckosy, 2008;Dieke, 2001, Wondirad & Ewnetu, 2019, also found that lack of connexion between various stakeholders in CBT development constrains the participation of the local community. Th is was attributed to the current policy which gives various mandates to government agencies on tourism development and conservation with none to ensure that these agencies and stakeholders fulfi l their obligations to the local community.…”

Section: High Expectations But Failed Promises Of Developmentmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Participation means that community members are part of decision making on the use of their cultural spaces. However, local communities are constrained in various ways while participating in tourism related activities (Wondirad & Ewnetu, 2019;Juma & Khademi-Vidra, 2019, Devkant & Bagri, 2018, Mensah, 2017Chili and Ngxongo, 2017). Tosun (2000) identifi ed limitations to public participation in decision-making process and benefi t sharing of tourism development in developing countries.…”

Section: Constraints To Community Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, lack of co-ordination amongst stakeholders (government agencies, hoteliers, tour operators, local community, and NGOs) involved in tourism development limits community participation (Wondirad & Ewnetu, 2019). Each stakeholder is driven by the desire to achieve his/her objectives with little regard to the objectives of others.…”

Section: Constraints To Community Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Further, the Kenya Forest Service (KFS), who issued the investor with a 25 years lease, felt that Dhanjal Investment Ltd had not violated any of the conditions in the lease. Th is depicted a lack of objective coordination/collaboration among the stakeholders (Wondirad & Ewnetu, 2019).…”

Section: High Expectations But Failed Promises Of Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Constraints to Community Participation in Tourism in Kenya: The Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary

Kihima

Musila²

2020

Jnl Tourism & Adventure

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Community Based Tourism (CBT) is among several types of tourism that have been considered sustainable and beneficial to the host populations in conservation areas. The local community participation in tourism in conservation areas is supposed to be high and its members should benefit from the tourism process. However, having been presented with opportunity to improve their livelihoods, communities are constrained in various ways and generally fail to benefit from tourism development. This study was set to investigate constraints to community participation in conservation areas. It was carried out in Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary (MES) in Kwale County, Kenya, using a descriptive survey design. Data was collected using researcher administered questionnaires and oral interviews. The results indicated that lack of coordination among stakeholders; inadequate financial resources, lack of conducive environment for tourism growth, and lack of skills/knowledge were major constraints to participation. The study concludes that to address both operational and structural constraints to community participation, the national and county governments should develop policies that compel investors to honor agreements with communities, assist communities to enter into fair collaborations with investors, and provide incentives to investors in tourism.

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Section: High Expectations But Failed Promises Of Developmentmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Constraints To Community Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Constraints To Community Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: High Expectations But Failed Promises Of Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Constraints to Community Participation in Tourism in Kenya: The Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary

Kihima

Musila²

2020

Jnl Tourism & Adventure

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“…Transdisciplinarity can support in guaranteeing a holistic approach to social innovation management, as it allows cross-sectorial spill-overs, which can foster creativity and the co-creation of innovative solutions [34]. An extensive body of literature has highlighted the benefits of actively involving stakeholders in decision-making processes, spanning from the seminal work of Paulo Freire (1921) on awareness creation of oppressed community, to the characterization of the degree to which communities can and are engaged in decision-making (see Arnstein's ladder of citizen participation in Arnstein p.217, [35]), and to the recent work on participation for environmental management in tourism [28,36]. Some of the cited benefits are: better appraisal of the reality faced by the stakeholders and therefore better identification of adequate solutions; increased rate of adoption of identified solutions; empowerment of the social actors and increase in human capital through social learning processes; increased responsibility of the stakeholders vis-à-vis the innovation identified and its implementation.…”

Section: Innovation Management and Transdisciplinaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Testing a Framework to Co-Construct Social Innovation Actions: Insights from Seven Marginalized Rural Areas

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Innovation actions within European Horizon 2020 (H2020) projects aim at testing research results in practice. When supporting social innovations in rural areas, such testing requires the alignment of several rural actors in order to entail behavioral changes beyond the individual level. Recently, social innovation has been recognized as an important tool for rural areas, developing new solutions to respond to wicked problems for improving local living conditions at the grassroots level. In this study, we analyzed the use of an operational framework to support the early governance of social innovation actions. This framework was applied to co-construct seven innovation actions across Europe and the Mediterranean basin applied to forestry, agriculture, and rural development. Our results showed that supporting social innovators and local actors at the early stage of social innovation processes is key for efficiently addressing and tackling challenges and opportunities. Additionally, we showed that the process of defining a social innovation is complex and requires recursive engagement, which might lead to evolution through time, especially in the first phases of the process. Lastly, conducting the feasibility assessment enabled strategic thinking on crucial dimensions for designing a promising social innovation action, such as social networks management, financial sustainability, and know-how. Such findings helped us to draw general lessons for the development and governance of social innovation actions in rural areas, potentially applicable to any rural sector.

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Re‐conceptualising the empowerment of local people in tourism

Abdullah

Carr

Lee

2022

Journal of Tourism Research

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The empowerment of local communities has been a popular buzzword to assess the success of tourism development. However, there is concern regarding the implementation of empowerment in this industry, resulting in some problematic issues in developing tourist destinations. In response, this paper provides a critical analysis of empowerment programs initiated by external organisations in the tourism industry to develop a better understanding of how to achieve empowerment of marginalised individuals and groups. This conceptual paper argues that the most crucial component of empowerment is the agency of the empowered people so they can be self‐directed.

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Community participation in tourism development as a tool to foster sustainable land and resource use practices in a national park milieu

Cited by 108 publications

References 89 publications

Constraints to Community Participation in Tourism in Kenya: The Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary

Constraints to Community Participation in Tourism in Kenya: The Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary

Testing a Framework to Co-Construct Social Innovation Actions: Insights from Seven Marginalized Rural Areas

Re‐conceptualising the empowerment of local people in tourism

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