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Community-based management:
There has been the promotion of sustainable tourism practices
surrounding the management of tourist locations by locals or more
concisely, the community. One of the main and important sites to promote
tourism in developing countries is www. humanitour.com, or The Blue
Yonder www.theblueyonder.com
This form of tourism is based on the premise that the people living next
to a resource are the ones best suited to protecting it. This means that
the tourism activities and businesses are developed and operated by
local community members, and certainly with their consent and support.
Sustainable tourism typically involves the conservation of resources
that are capitalized upon for tourism purposes, such as coral reefs and
pristine forests. Locals run the businesses and are responsible for
promoting the conservation messages to protect their environment.
Community-based sustainable tourism (CBST):
Community-based sustainable tourism (CBST) associates the success of the
sustainability of the ecotourism location to the management practices of
the communities who are directly or indirectly dependent on the location
for their livelihoods.
A salient feature of CBST is that local knowledge is usually utilized
alongside wide general frameworks of ecotourism business models. This
allows the participation of locals at the management level and typically
allows a more intimate understanding of the environment. The use of
local knowledge also means an easier entry level into a tourism industry
for locals whose jobs or livelihoods are affected by the use of their
environment as tourism locations. The involvement of locals restores the
ownership of the environment to the local community and allows an
alternative sustainable form of development for communities and their
environments that are typically unable to support other forms of
development.
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