Community supporting attitude toward community-based tourism development; non-participants perspective
Non-participants in a host community play a vital role in the success of that destination. Community participation issues in a destination may propel a community to fail in their relations, businesses and attachments. In addition, there is a bias toward participants rather than non-participants in p...
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Canadian Center of Science and Education
2014
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/52153/1/SajadEbrahimi2014_Communitysupportingattitudetoward.pdf http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/52153/ http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v10n17p29 |
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| Summary: | Non-participants in a host community play a vital role in the success of that destination. Community participation issues in a destination may propel a community to fail in their relations, businesses and attachments. In addition, there is a bias toward participants rather than non-participants in previous studies and non-participants in tourism activities have been neglected, therefore this study aims to investigate the supporting behavior of those non-participants and tries to identify factors discourage local people to participate in Community-Based Tourism activities by using a qualitative local participation approach. The results indicate the existence of a wide range of factors including; relation with current participants; time and capital limitations; religious and cultural sensitivities; envious sensitivities and communication barriers effect local participation in community-based tourism and specifically Malaysia Homestay Program. |
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