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Local involvement in tourism development
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Why is it important?
The article describes and discusses four phases of the process of local involvement in a tourism development project: step 1, formation of a representative project group and negotiation of community-based approach; step 2, consulting local stakeholders and employing a mixed-methods approach; step 3, elaborating results with local stakeholders; step 4, increased community collaboration. If these steps are not managed successfully, the risk of causing interest conflicts and exclusion, rather than harmony and inclusion, in the process of tourism development is imminent.
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The article describes a tourism development project carried out in collaboration between researchers and different tourism stakeholders. It shows many of the challenges in such collaboration, not in the least depending on the limited time of the project.
Associate Professor Mia Larson
Lunds Universitet
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This page is a summary of: Community-based tourism in practice: evidence from three coastal communities in Bohuslän, Sweden, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/bog-2016-0025.
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