Community-based Tourism Enterprises Development in Kenya: An Exploration of Their Potential as Avenues of Poverty Reduction

By G. Manyara, Eleri Jones. 2007

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Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

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Citations in the corpus

• Inclusive tourism development (2018, background): “However, key questions revolve around the extent to which inclusiveness extends either within the local community (Blackstock, 2005; Manyara & Jones, 2007), or beyond it into areas that are of interest to inclusive tourism such as wider societal structures and industry practices.”
• Community-Based Tourism in Developing Countries: A Framework for Policy Evaluation (2019, background): “In this context, the CBT has been focused on strong participation that involves community control over management and development of tourism [13–15], ownership and generation of direct financial benefits [16,17].”
• Tourism and poverty reduction: theory and practice in less economically developed countries (2012, background): “A key focus here was on dependency debates, and tourism was frequently seen as supporting a new kind of colonialism, a view that is still prominent, especially among African academics today (Akama, 2004 ; Manyara & Jones, 2007 ; Mbaiwa, 2005 ).”
• Social capital and tourism entrepreneurship (2011, background): “Within this process, small enterprise development is commonly recognized as a gateway to economic independency, community empowerment and capacity building (Echtner, 1995a; Manyara & Jones, 2007).”
• The impact of tourism on income inequality in developing economies: Does Kuznets curve hypothesis exist? (2016, unknown): “Evaluating the performance of community based tourism enterprises in Kenya, Manyara and Jones (2007) examine the impact of tourism on poverty alleviation and income inequality.”
• Can tourism help to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere”? The challenge of tourism addressing SDG1 (2019, background): “Thus, for example, Manyara and Jones (2007) cite evidence that in Kenya, the incidence of poverty is greater in those areas with high tourist activity.”
• Tourism Entrepreneurship – Review and Future Directions (2015, background): “…tourism (Sharpley, 2002; Wilson et al., 2001), destination branding (Garcı́a et al., 2012), migration (Williams & Hall, 2000) and poverty reduction (Manyara & Jones, 2007), or as stakeholders when examining issues such as community development (Byrd et al., 2009) or wildlife Byrd, Bosley, and…”
• Ecosystem services approach for community-based ecotourism: towards an equitable and sustainable blue economy (2020, background): “Research on the development of CBET shows homestays as among the top viable activities promoted within communities to reduce the incidence of rural poverty (Bhalla et al., 2016; Manyara & Jones, 2007; Sarkar & Sinha, 2015).”
• The influence of recreation experience and environmental attitude on the environmentally responsible behavior of community-based tourists in Taiwan (2015, background): “Community-based tourism is a strategy for reducing the prevalence of poverty in developing countries (Lepp, 2007; Manyara & Jones, 2007); a community can gain economic benefit from tourism attracted to its cultural, natural, and landscape assets (Elliott & Sumba, 2010; Salazar, 2012).”
• Tourism-related Social Capital and Its Relationship with Other Forms of Capital: An Exploratory Study (2010, background): “Researchers have studied rural tourism development using a variety of theories and approaches, including stakeholder theory (Byrd 2007; Nilsson 2007), collaboration theory (Jamal and Getz 1995), community capacity-building (Manyara and Jones 2007), network theory (Dredge 2002), formal versus substan”