Integrated Tourism Planning. Report on Case Studies

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Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Tourism - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,0, Stralsund University of Applied Sciences, course: Integrated Tourism Planning, language: English, abstract: Attempts to define the concept of community based tourism often find quite different wordsand formulations, but always coming back to close similarities to sustainable tourism, ecotourism or rural tourism. As a subcategory of sustainable tourism, the term is mostly used incontext with third world countries, but also other rather rural regions (Bittner, 2006).Community based tourism aims to replace mass tourism and is supposed to make hostcommunities use the tourism business for self-determination and to involve local residents inthe planning process by complementing their traditional lifestyles with opportunities forlocal employment and business (Addison, 1996). Therefore all tourism measures shouldfocus on the optimization of local economic benefits and protecting the host environment,natural and built (Page, 2006). Implementing community based tourism, both the tourist andthe host communities should benefit and cross-cultural education and communication is, inan ideal situation, promoted. Also preserving local traditions and developing a “publicparticipation program that [makes] clear to local residents the benefits and potential hazardsof the tourism industry” (Addison, 1996: 304) is necessary. Another significant fact is topromote all-year-around tourism so that the local community does not seasonally depend onthe income of tourism. To realize this, a culturally and environmentally appropriate tourismplan has to be developed. [...]