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      Limits to community participation in the tourism development process in developing countries

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      Author(s)
      Tosun, C.
      Date
      2000-12
      Source Title
      Tourism Management
      Print ISSN
      0261-5177
      Electronic ISSN
      1879-3193
      Publisher
      Pergamon Press
      Volume
      21
      Issue
      6
      Pages
      613 - 633
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      Article
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      Abstract
      This study deals with a normative concept of participatory development approach, which originates in the developed world. In particular, it analyses and explains the limitations to the participatory tourism development approach in the context of developing countries. It was found that there are operational, structural and cultural limits to community participation in the TDP in many developing countries although they do not equally exist in every tourist destination. Moreover, while these limits tend to exhibit higher intensity and greater persistence in the developing world than in the developed world, they appear to be a reflection of prevailing socio-political, economic and cultural structure in many developing countries. On the other hand, it was also found that although these limitations may vary over time according to types, scale and levels of tourism development, the market served, and cultural attributes of local communities, forms and scale of tourism developed are beyond the control of local communities. It concludes that formulating and implementing the participatory tourism development approach requires a total change in socio-political, legal, administrative and economic structure of many developing countries, for which hard political choices and logical decisions based on cumbersome social, economic and environmental trade-offs are sine qua non alongside deliberate help, collaboration and co-operation of major international donor agencies, NGOs, international tour operators and multinational companies. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
      Keywords
      Developing countries
      Limits
      Tourism development
      Developing world
      Participatory approach
      Tourism Development
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/13507
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      http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0261-5177(00)00009-1
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