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Community-Based Tourism
Communities are destinations for development for within them, they hold the destiny of the country. Every citizen is a potential business partner to be trained in small business management, environmental awareness, product development and marketing. In addition to this, they should understand how to value their community assets: their culture, heritage, cuisine and lifestyle which will assist them in increasing their income.
Community is a word which draws on several important elements of nation building - probably the most central characteristic of the word ‘community’ is the scenario of bringing people together for a purpose. It is structuring a collective mind-set, which involves sharing and using resources in an equitable and sustainable way..
Community building should involve a 4P formula of POTENTIAL, PASSION, PURPOSE and PARTNERSHIP – one P builds on the other.
Community development begins with the recognition of what resources are present and how these resources can be sustain ably used. Passion speaks about the creative enterprise of the human spirit and is the bridge that links potential to purpose. Passion creates a vision that builds on the potentialities of people and/or area. At all stages individual efforts must unite and form consensus or individual efforts must be at least complimentary.
Community purpose involves the mobilization of community leadership and a division of labour to address key areas of development. A key component is full participation by all stakeholders, with intense interactivity to clarify the strategy forward towards the ‘community vision’.
The 4th P of Partnership is at the point where all linkages are formalized between the public and private sector, where the community as a unit can begin to receive assistance from other communities with the nation and overseas. Prominently evident is that community means relationships, at all levels.
(Originally posted by "CountrystyleTourism" as a discussion thread. Thank you!)
Community is a word which draws on several important elements of nation building - probably the most central characteristic of the word ‘community’ is the scenario of bringing people together for a purpose. It is structuring a collective mind-set, which involves sharing and using resources in an equitable and sustainable way..
Community building should involve a 4P formula of POTENTIAL, PASSION, PURPOSE and PARTNERSHIP – one P builds on the other.
Community development begins with the recognition of what resources are present and how these resources can be sustain ably used. Passion speaks about the creative enterprise of the human spirit and is the bridge that links potential to purpose. Passion creates a vision that builds on the potentialities of people and/or area. At all stages individual efforts must unite and form consensus or individual efforts must be at least complimentary.
Community purpose involves the mobilization of community leadership and a division of labour to address key areas of development. A key component is full participation by all stakeholders, with intense interactivity to clarify the strategy forward towards the ‘community vision’.
The 4th P of Partnership is at the point where all linkages are formalized between the public and private sector, where the community as a unit can begin to receive assistance from other communities with the nation and overseas. Prominently evident is that community means relationships, at all levels.
(Originally posted by "CountrystyleTourism" as a discussion thread. Thank you!)
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| rogerharris38 | TRUE Community-Based Tourism | 1 | Sep 24 2009, 1:05 PM EDT by agricolus | ||
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I attended a tourism conference recently that claimed to focus on Community Based Tourism (CBT). Actually most of the presentations and people attending worked for travel operators that were based in cities and who sent tourists into rural areas where they stayed in lodges that were owned and managed by the travel operators but who hired local residents as staff. They call this community-based tourism. I don’t!!
For me, TRUE CBT occurs when the residents of a destination own and operate their own tourism facilities and therefore earn the largest possible proportion of revenues derived from tourism in their area. Often, and in its purest form, this is in the form of homestays, where visitors stay in the houses of the residents as paying guests and they take the opportunity to learn about the cultures and lifestyles of their hosts, perhaps even participating in their daily living activities. Such tourism has been proven to be capable of generating incomes for poor rural residents that provide important supplements to their agricultural-based livelihoods. However, and most interestingly, the rural residents that I work with who provide these kinds of travel experiences tell me that while the additional income is useful, they mostly value the interactions that they enjoy with their visitors, especially those from overseas. So it’s a doubly rewarding experience and when organised in this way, it fosters close and memorable encounters between people from starkly different backgrounds which lead to mutual respect and understanding. When you stay in someone’s house you become their guest and the relationship is quite different to the experience a traveller gets when she stays in a lodge. In so-called community-lodges, the relationship between the host and the guest is that of an employer-employee, as in a hotel, and the encounter has a completely different outcome than a homestay. See http://www.asianencounters.org for a better taste. |
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| CountrystyleTourism | Hospitality is Everybody's Business | 0 | Jun 1 2009, 1:16 AM EDT by CountrystyleTourism | ||
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Hospitality is Everybody's responsibility - The more friendly and helpful we are toward the visitors who come to see us, the more inclined they will be to return and the more enthusiastically they will recommend our blessed Isle to their friends.
Even more important than the official welcome at airport or pier, the formal reception, cocktail party or luncheon, is the friendly attitude of everyone with whom they may come in contact from the moment they set foot on our shores to the time they say their lingering goodbyes. The important thing is to treat visitors not as “tourists” but as honoured guests, to show them the same consideration we would extend to friends invited to our homes. Nothing short of this can do justice to our reputation for hospitality.
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