To cite this version:Amélie Fiorello, Damien Bo. Community-based ecotourism to meet the new tourist's expectations: an exploratory study. ABSTRACTTourism is destructive toward host communities and their natural environment. However, the general attitude of society toward the environment is changing and consequently, people are developing an appreciation for the value of responsible travel. Alternative forms of tourism have been conceived, such as ecotourism, and are viewed as a mean to meet the expectations of the new tourists. Ecotourism is a method to satisfy the concern of new tourists for environmental conservation but it neglects one of the key factors of sustainable tourism today: the host communities. Community-Based Ecotourism (CBET) aims at environmental conservation but it is also a way to empower communities, by allowing them a degree of control over tourism projects and their impacts. This paper reveals the varying degrees of empowerment of host communities provided by community-based ecotourism through a meta-study analysis of six case studies of tourism projects. Not all contemporary tourism projects take local populations into consideration thus the six case studies are nonrandom selections for the purpose of representing the concept embodied in the thesis and showing its appropriateness with the new tourists' expectations.

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to explore and explain the links between knowledge management (KM) and leadership in knowledge-intensive firms.Design/methodology/approach -This study employs an instrumental case-based study on four knowledge-based firms to explore KM and leadership approaches, and the links between them. Data were primarily collected through qualitative interviews with firm managers and direct observations, as well as quantitative data by questionnaire from the firm employees.Findings -The study identified two combinations of KM and leadership systems. These combinations are personalization-distribution and codification-centralization; which are explained within the theoretical framework of this paper. Other theoretically possible combinations were discussed and argued to be non-viable or non-economical.Research limitations/implications -As with most qualitative case-based research papers, this research was focused on study of a small number of cases; a limitation that does not allow the authors to claim a statistical generalization but nevertheless allows analytical generalization to be made. Limitations of this paper include the fact that all cases were located in one country and all were more or less involved with the field of information technology.Practical implications -Practical implications of this paper for managers and company strategists involve alignment of their KM strategy with a relevant leadership system.Originality/value -There has been little research aimed at finding links between KM and leadership in firms, and how this link may lead to increased knowledge exploitation capability for the firm. The present study addresses this issue and presents an evidenced and theoretically supported explanation for this link.

International audienceCette recherche exploratoire vise à mieux comprendre ce que recherchent les touristes qui choisissent une forme de voyage durable émergente (l'écotourisme communautaire) et quelles valeurs ils y attribuent. En se basant sur 117 récits de voyages retraçant des expériences d'écotourisme communautaire et en mobilisant le modèle intégrateur de la valeur développé par Aurier, Evrard et N'Goala (2004), nous avons pu faire émerger les dimensions de la valeur les plus importantes pour les touristes qui choisissent de consommer une offre d'écotourisme communautaire. Abstract : This exploratory study aims at understanding what motivates tourists who choose a new form of sustainable tourism (community-based ecotourism) and what values they assign to this consumption. Based on 117 travel stories recounting experiences of community-based ecotourism and mobilizing the integrator value model developed by Aurier, and N'Goala Evrard (2004), we were able to find the most important values for tourist in a community-based ecotourism experience

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