This qualitative research aimed to investigate the construction of a floating market's community identity and its impact on the people of Damnoen Saduak community. Data were collected using in-depth interviews, informal conversations, and participatory and non-participatory observations of the...

This research aims to gain knowledge to understand residents' attitudes towards tourism sustainability in a destination where the main attraction is an archaeological site by analysing the effects of residents' support and perceived benefits for tourism sustainability (in economic, market and...

Most studies on community participation in tourism planning only advocate the importance of the concept and/or identify barriers without articulating the required actions or strategies to actually promote community participation. Based on a study in two protected areas in Malawi, this paper...

This article discusses the effects of tourism on local development in the context of World Heritage sites. The 'Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque' in Mexico will be used as a case study, with especial attention on local Indigenous communities. It analyses the use of 'World Heritage'...

This paper assesses the responses of community-based tourism (CBT) and local governments to natural disasters. The tourism community in rural areas that are at high risk of natural disasters is largely overlooked in the literature on tourism and disaster management. It can be argued that CBT...

Small island nations face several challenges, both short- and long-term, in the context of a changing climate and socio-economic environments. Consequently, their communities are vulnerable to multiple sources of stress. This study examines the multiple stressors impacting a tourism community,...

This study investigated host learning in two community-based ecotourism homestay villages in Nepal's mountain trekking region. Homestays are an intense visitor-host contact zone, rich in learning, and important to the success of ecotourism projects. This was an interpretive case study used to...

Urban tourism development has been leading increasingly to negative ecological, socio-cultural and economic effects over the recent years. Croatia's cities in are facing the same problems, and hence they have to plan their tourism development according to the principles of the concept of...

Households in communities in and around nature reserves are important stakeholders in biodiversity conservation; they are the focus of the conflict between ecological protection and community development. This study surveyed 927 households in 16 giant panda reserves in Sichuan Province, China, to...

The concern about the positive externalities of residential communities for tourism and negative externalities of tourism for residential communities and its internalization expedite the emergence of the idea and practice of the involvement of residential communities in the development of tourism....