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Empowerment for Sustainable Tourism Development (Hardcover, Wyd)
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Empowerment for Sustainable Tourism Development (Hardcover, Wyd)
Series: Tourism Social Science Series
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Aiming to explore theoretical advances in tourism studies, this
book explores the triadic relationship between tourism, sustainable
development and empowerment. While tourism has begun to focus on
community consultations, the process has tended to follow the path
of development for communities rather than development by
communities. In many cases the result has been disempowerment
rather than empowerment. This study goes beyond a focus on the
impacts of tourism to explore the relevance of a body of political,
economic, sociological, anthropological and development theory to
formulate a synthesized construct of empowerment which provides a
useful standpoint to consider the community/tourism development
relationship. The approach that has been adopted also attempts to
combine the emic paradigm with the etic, that is one which relies
upon an actor-oriented "inside" view of the meaning of the
behaviour under study as well as upon externally constructed models
by "outsider" researchers to describe the social situation The
theoretical framework of empowerment which is proposed for
community based tourism development is explored across three levels
through five case studies drawn from th
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