Motivational factors impacting rural community participation in community-based tourism enterprise in Lenggong Valley, Malaysia

The impact of Covid-19 pandemic on small businesses in tourism and hospitality industry in Malaysia

“…However, small businesses in the tourism industry, such as budget hotels and homestays, are limited or have been shut down due to the MCO policies executed in Malaysia since March 2020. For rural tourism, Community-based Tourism Enterprise (CBTEs) is an important tourism project for the development of the Lenggong World Heritage site in Malaysia (Jaafar et al , 2020). After the pandemic period, CBTEs will potentially grow to support tourism development in the rural part of Malaysia.…”

“…Literature review 2.1 Impact of Covid-19 outbreak on tourism SMEs are essential business sectors for economic development with contributions to tourism growth across nations (Jalali and Jaafar, 2019). In Malaysia, SMEs represent the backbone of the economy, especially in the tourism and hospitality sectors that are directly related to culture (Jalali et al, 2020;Jaafar et al, 2020). Based on the firm's characteristics and its size, small businesses seem to dominate the tourism industry in Malaysia.…”

Understanding the Concept of Community-Based Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review Approach

“…The studies tend to focus on social entrepreneurship among the communities' critical elements to entrepreneurial actions. Community-based enterprise or community enterprise has been introduced recently by previous studies (Jaafar et al, 2020;Paul & Shrivastava, 2015;Pinheiro et al, 2020;Wanniarachchi et al, 2020). Community-based enterprises (CBEs) focus on the symbiotic relationship that different people and organizations are mutually dependent on and the creation of social value for the community in the long term (Pinheiro et al, 2020).…”

“…Despite extensive research on community-based entrepreneurship, the issue of factors influencing community-based entrepreneurship and its complexity is raised. The core concept to understand entrepreneurship at the community level is often overlooked (Jaafar et al, 2020;Pinheiro et al, 2020). In fact, the effort to systematically review the recent community-based entrepreneurship studies is relatively scarce.…”

“…In addition, this paper contributes to the current literature by systematically reviewing suitable and relevant articles based on systematic procedures from keywords identification to articles eligibility analysis (Moher et al, 2015). Community-based entrepreneurship has been defined differently and as a result, it can stimulate different interpretations in the concepts (Argyrou & Hummels, 2019;Galappaththi et al, 2017;Gurău & Dana, 2018;Jaafar et al, 2020). Hence, for its usability, various studies have been published in the context of entrepreneurship at the community level.…”