Community Benefit Tourism Initiatives—A conceptual oxymoron?

By M. Simpson. 2008

537 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

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In Demography

1. Wookhyun An
2. Silverio Alarcón
3. V. Truong
4. C. Michael Hall
5. R. Lapeyre
6. Robin Nunkoo
7. T. Garry

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Wookhyun An
2. U. Pröbstl-Haider
3. Silverio Alarcón
4. Ana Isabel Polo Peña
5. V. Truong
6. Dolores María Frías Jamilena
7. C. Michael Hall
8. R. Lapeyre

In Transportation

1. Wookhyun An
2. Silverio Alarcón
3. C. Michael Hall
4. R. Lapeyre
5. Robin Nunkoo

Citations in the corpus

• How Can Rural Tourism Be Sustainable? A Systematic Review (2020, background): “The effectiveness and efficiency of sustainable rural tourism development can vary depending on the “attitude” and “perceptions” of the community about rural tourism development [50]; they are factors that influence the level of community participation in rural tourism development [52].”
• Community-Based Tourism in Developing Countries: A Framework for Policy Evaluation (2019, background): “Although communities can receive benefits from participating in tourism without having direct control or ownership [5,19,20], these benefits are centred mostly on the provision of low-level employment for local people (e.”
• The perceived value of the rural tourism stay and its effect on rural tourist behaviour (2012, background): “Rural tourism is based on the premise of sustainable environmental, economic and social development (Sharpley, 2007; Simpson, 2008).”
• Community-based tourism as a sustainable solution to maximise impacts locally? The Tsiseb Conservancy case, Namibia (2010, background): “In practice, as noted elsewhere (Forstner, 2004:509; Simpson, 2008:11), these skills in the field of community tourism are hardly available within the NGOs’ staff.”
• Segmentation by motivation for rural tourism activities in The Gambia (2014, background): “This reflects the opinions of Lepp (2008), Simpson (2008), and Ezeuduji and Rid (2011), who recommend that new rural tourism products and services should be planned carefully and in a step-by-step fashion to avoid internal conflicts and reactions of distress.”
• Toward a More Comprehensive Use of Social Exchange Theory to Study Residents’ Attitudes to Tourism (2016, background): “The industry has been found notorious for its ability to disturb, disrupt, and destroy local communities, undermining social norms, degrading social structure, and stripping communities of individuality (Nunkoo and Ramkissoon, 2011; Ramkissoon and Nunkoo, 2011; Simpson, 2008).”
• Tourism and poverty alleviation: perceptions and experiences of poor people in Sapa, Vietnam (2014, background): “Otherwise, feelings of scepticism, jealousy, and distrust may arise, negatively affecting community solidarity and cohesion (Simpson, 2008).”