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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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