Community Supporting Attitude toward Community-Based Tourism Development; Non-Participants Perspective

Abstract

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.

Mobilizing knowledge: determining key elements for success and pitfalls in developing community-based tourism

“…Collaboration lowers risk of failure for CBT and it is rare to find CBT initiated and controlled entirely by the community (Scheyvens, 2002). External advice and links are a necessity to ensure success (Iorio & Corsale, 2014;Ebrahimi & Khalifah, 2014) as many rural tourism providers often lack many of the skills and knowledge required to participate in tourism. For example, some community enterprises may have hospitality skills, but may lack awareness of demand factors, knowledge of product presentation, comprehension of the markets they work within and marketing networks (Bramwell & Lane, 2000;Mitchell & Hall, 2005).…”

Chi Phat: An exemplar of a successful community based tourism destination in Cambodia

“…However, there are some overlaps between intrinsic and extrinsic factors for the success in this regard. For instance, local participation, considered an extrinsic factor is affected by inner-side motivation factors including; the degree of control on decision-making, needs for selfdevelopment, role in community development, sense of belonging, gain in self-respect or self-fulfillment, and income generation (Ebrahimi & Khalifah, 2014).…”

“…Local or community participation is a factor which contributes to the success of CBT (Ebrahimi & Khalifah, 2014). It has been regarded as a precondition of CBT projects by many scholars (Choi & Murray, 2010;Ebrahimi & Khalifah, 2014).…”

“…Local or community participation is a factor which contributes to the success of CBT (Ebrahimi & Khalifah, 2014). It has been regarded as a precondition of CBT projects by many scholars (Choi & Murray, 2010;Ebrahimi & Khalifah, 2014). It is important for CBT as local residents play the role in greeting tourists and making them feel welcome so a relationship is created between the host and the visitors (López-Guzmán et al, 2011).…”

“…Non-participants can be challenging for tourism developers, planners, and managers (Ebrahimi & Khalifah, 2014). The tourism industry is most likely dependent on local resident involvement, through their role as employees or local entrepreneurs, and on residents goodwill towards tourists (Blackstock, 2005).…”