Planning for community based tourism in a remote location

Harwood, Sharon (2010) Planning for community based tourism in a remote location. Sustainability, 2 (7). pp. 1909-1923.

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DOI: 10.3390/su2071909

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Abstract

Remote areas are difficult to access, tend to lack critical infrastructure, are highly susceptible to shocks in the marketplace, and are perceived by industry to possess limited development opportunities. Accordingly a community orientated and territorial approach to development planning in a remote area will be more successful than a top down industry based approach [1]. Given the limitations of being remote, the case study community examined in this research manages and sustains a bird watching tourism product within a global market place. This paper examines how a remotely located community in the Arfak Mountains of West Papua overcomes these difficulties and plans for community based tourism (CBT) in their locale.


Item ID:	18467
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	2071-1050
Keywords:	community based tourism; remote; planning; tourism; West Papua; bird watching
Additional Information:	© 2010 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an Open Access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2011 06:16
FoR Codes:	12 BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND DESIGN > 1205 Urban and Regional Planning > 120501 Community Planning @ 100%
SEO Codes:	90 COMMERCIAL SERVICES AND TOURISM > 9003 Tourism > 900302 Socio-Cultural Issues in Tourism @ 100%
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