Community Based Ecotourism and Conservation
Community Based Ecotourism and Conservation

Author: Juliana Torres

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2010-08

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9783838393315

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Tourism is one approach that is being promoted to bring socio-economic development to local people and to enhance conservation, especially in developing countries. Community-based Eco-tourism (CBET) seeks to link conservation, rural development and community participation in tourism development. It attempts to ensure that tourism development is managed and run by the community members. Moreover, CBET aims to protect the local environment and support local livelihoods by providing alternative income. In Cambodia, the government is supporting tourism as a strategy to reduce poverty. Research and evaluation of a CBET project aims to critically examine how this is happening on the ground in Chambok commune, adjacent to the Kirirom National Park. The research uses the Sustainable Livelihood Approach to provide a theoretical framework, an ethnographic approach, observations, semi-structured interviews and participatory workshops, to understand the local community, their culture and traditions, their relationship with the environment, and how ecotourism impacts on these and how they turn impact on ecotourism.

Natural Connections
Natural Connections

Author: David Western

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2013-03-19

Total Pages: 603

ISBN-13: 161091094X

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Both realism and justice demand that efforts to conserve biological diversity address human needs as well. The most promising hope of accomplishing such a goal lies in locally based conservation efforts -- an approach that seeks ways to make local communities the beneficiaries and custodians of conservation efforts. Natural Connections focuses on rural societies and the conservation of biodiversity in rural areas. It represents the first systematic analysis of locally based efforts, and includes a comprehensive examination of cases from around the world where the community-based approach is used. The book provides: an overview of community-based conservation in the context of the debate over sustainable development, poverty, and environmental decline case studies from the developed and developing worlds -- Indonesia, Peru, Australia, Zimbabwe, Costa Rica, the United Kingdom -- that present detailed examples of the locally based approach to conservation a review of the principal issues arising from community-based programs an agenda for future action

Ecotourism and Conservation in the Americas
Ecotourism and Conservation in the Americas

Author: Amanda Stronza

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1845934008

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Ecotourism has been credited with conserving biological and cultural diversity, alleviating rural poverty, increasing public awareness of environmental concerns and strengthening ties between tourism operators and local populations. For these reasons, ecotourism has grown in popularity with tourists as well as governmental development agencies and conservation organizations. Over twenty years after its inception, it now needs to be asked: Does ecotourism measure up to its environmental, social and economic ideals? Using detailed case studies, regional overviews and thematic analyses, Ecotourism and Conservation in the Americas evaluates the pros and cons of ecotourism for communities and ecosystems. Focusing particularly on the Americas, perspectives are drawn from private tour operators, non-governmental conservation and development organizations, local and indigenous communities and tourism researchers. Chapters discuss local benefits and conservation value through discussions of social impacts, the assessment of conservation potential, environmental education and the setting and maintaining of standards.

Challenges of Implementing Community Based Ecotourism
Challenges of Implementing Community Based Ecotourism

Author: Tamagn Woyesa

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2015-03-23

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9783659667237

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As I grow up in the neighborhood of the study area, the fate of biodiversity and community who totally depend on the same resource being conserved has deeply concerned me for long. The narratives of development and conservation is the order of the day and most of the time in contradiction where ultimately fail to ensure both conservation and development missions it intends to achieve. Therefore, this study is dealing with how this contradiction affect conservation taking the case of pastoral Guji Oromo community who is dwelling inside the Nechsar National park in southern Ethiopia. The primary goal of conducting this research is to assess the challenges of implementing community based ecotourism while the communities residing inside the park. The main question examined, is that possible to achieve conservation objectives while pastoral-community dwelling with in the park? This research also tried to figure out conflict in ownership, human-wildlife conflict and some practical considerations. Though the study was carried out in specific communities, the lessons can be applied to a wider range and may also have significant value for conservation and sustainable env'tal management.

Community Based Ecotourism
Community Based Ecotourism

Author: Mulugeta Asteray

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9783845441979

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Community based ecotourism (CBET) has become the most important tool of biodiversity conservation in protected areas because of its nature to keep balance between community and the environment. This book assesses how CBET is used as a tool for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in SMNP. It is derived from research findings and is descriptive in its design. CBET in SMNP is an effective, efficient and sustainable compared with alternative approaches of conserving biodiversity. This is because of the reality that local communities are preserving the park better than the earlier periods due to economic reward from tourism. Local communities' awareness level on biodiversity of the park and its conservation has increased considerably. Capacity building programs has been given by government and NGOs to increase community participation in tourism and help contribute biodiversity conservation. The economic significance of tourism to the park and community is increasing significantly from year to year. But the income from tourism and numbers of population are not matching. Finally, good benefit sharing mechanism that can satisfy involved parties in the park is recommended.

Global Opportunities and Challenges for Rural and Mountain Tourism
Global Opportunities and Challenges for Rural and Mountain Tourism

Author: Kala, Devkant

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2020-01-03

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1799813045

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Mountainous and rural areas throughout the world have continually been attributed with several hinderances including poverty, faulty governance, and susceptibility to natural disasters. However, with the recent development of tourism, these provinces have seen a strong rise in visitation. Despite this increase in economic sustainability, planners are still presented with many challenges as they try to balance developmental and ecological considerations. Global Opportunities and Challenges for Rural and Mountain Tourism provides emerging research exploring the integration of mountain tourism development and innovative practices for managing contemporary issues and challenges of tourism in these regions including socio-economic impacts, role of stakeholders, and promotional strategies for sustainable tourism development. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as cultural heritage, marketing strategies, and value chain systems, this book is ideally designed for travel agents, tour directors, tour developers, hotel managers, hospitality and tourism professionals, industry practitioners, researchers, geographical scientists, planners, academicians, and students.

Protected Areas, Sustainable Tourism and Community Livelihood Linkages
Protected Areas, Sustainable Tourism and Community Livelihood Linkages

Author: Moren Stone

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-11

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1040145213

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The book uses a multi-disciplinary approach to address lessons learned and challenges encountered over the years in different ecological, economic, political and cultural contexts. Protected areas were originally established as recreational spaces and to protect some components of nature; however, today they are also expected to provide an increasing range of benefits to an array of people. Protected areas no longer simply “protect” but they also provide ecosystem services and facilitate poverty reduction via local development, ecotourism, and sustainable resource use. Integrating tourism and conservation with existing local historical, socio-economic, and institutional landscapes is associated with the promotion of local community participation in resource management. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to understand social-ecological systems that explain the relationship between protected areas, tourism, and community livelihoods linkages. The book provides a platform for dialogue to develop a better understanding of the complex relationships between protected areas, tourism, and community livelihoods linkages. Due to the role tourism plays in poverty alleviation, conservation, empowerment and addressing other environmental and social challenges, the book also connects tourism with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and policymakers of tourism, conservation, natural resource management, sustainable development as well as professionals and policymakers involved in conservation policy. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

ECOTOURISM AND RURAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (Penerbit UMK)
ECOTOURISM AND RURAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (Penerbit UMK)

Author: Velan Kunjuraman, Roslizawati Che Aziz, Nur Zehan Abu Bakar

Publisher: Penerbit UMK

Published: 2021-09-14

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13:

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This book introduces a wide range of topics related to ecotourism, rural tourism and rural community development within Malaysia and outside of Malaysia. Among the topics include research paradigm in ecotourism research, ecotourism impacts to the local community development, ecotourism challenges and its solutions, tourist satisfaction towards ecotourism services, and others. The discussed topics in this book have been theoretically and empirically validated by the authors and provide a meaningful discussion within the ecotourism and rural community development areas. This book is timely to recognise ecotourism contributions towards rural community development issues within the selected countries done by the authors. This book is suitable for college and university students, academicians, government and private agencies, policy makers, NGOs and the general public who are interested in ecotourism and rural community development issues in developed and developing countries. Moreover, this book may be considered as a reference to those invested in ecotourism ventures as well as studies related to the ecotourism and rural community development.