Community-Based Tourism
Community-based tourism is a powerful tool for local member to manage resources, nature and culture by the participatory process of people in the community and let the community take part in determining the direction of development and benefit from tourism. To provide the community with the tourism based on the above principles, it is necessary to prepare and strengthen the community in tourism management. At the same time, it is also necessary to set the campaign for people in the society to see the difference between community-based tourism and general tourism, as well as encouraging people in the society to see the importance of community-based tourism and interested in the exchange of learning between hosts and visitors.
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People are trying to find the way to gain more than other people, competing and irresponsible which lead to moral deterioration. The destruction of natural resources in this situation has brought back the interest in the “community” among the developing countries, which still has a strong community system to counterbalance the “individualism”. It helps the community which was a detriment and neglects as in the past to become the community which emphasizes “community” as the process of forming a flexible relationship in the diverse context, such as city, community according to the interest of the occupation (Bunchai, K., …show more content…
The sample consisted of 210 people from 38 households, therefore, the researchers collected 90% of total household which is 34 set by collecting data from Mae Chan Tai village, Mae Suai district, Chiang Rai.
The research instrument used in this research is the questionnaire to collect the information on the type of language pattern which easy to understand in order to achieve the same understanding between the population and the researchers. The questionnaire was divided into 3 parts as follows:
Part 1 General information about the respondents
Part 2 Questionnaire on community strength according to the according to the sufficiency economy philosophy of Mae Suai district, Chiang Rai which separated into 4 aspects which are the basic elemental aspect of the community, physical element aspect, ideological element aspect, and community strength aspect. The calculation of the average score on each level of the feedback that bring the data to find the mean and interpret the result using the following criteria: Average 4.51-5.50 means extremely important
Average 3.51-4.50 means very important
Average 2.51-3.50 means moderately
Another foundation of the community is the lack of choises for the citizens. All choises have either been settled in the past or are adopted by the Committee of Elders. The only real choice that the citizens have over their live is weather to have an familiy unit and, for the students, where to spend their volunteer hours . This was a needed action for the community to prevent the citizens of making wrong decisions. As the Giver said, every member of the community lives a life that was created for him or her .
There is an agreement in the literature that “when people share a strong sense of community they are empowered and motivated to change the problems they face and are better able to mediate the negative effects over things which they have no control” (Chavis & Wandersman, 1990).
Tourism impacts can be generally classified into seven categories with each having both positive and negative impacts. These impacts include; economic, environmental, social and cultural, crowding and congestion, taxes, and community attitude. It is essential for a balance on array of impacts that may either positively or negatively affect the resident communities. Different groups are concerned about different tourism impacts that affect them in one way or another. Tourism’s benefits can be increased by use of specific plans and actions. These can also lead to decrease in the gravity of negative impacts. Communities will not experience every impact but instead this will depend on particular natural resources, development, or spatial patterns (Glen 1999).
Global and local communities seek the greatest opportunities for prosperity and self-fulfillment, but there exists certain criteria that must be met in order to achieve those ends. The most successful communities incorporate the inherent values and virtues of a specific group of people. Communities ought to establish goals to be attained by their members, giving them a sense of cohesion and cooperation. Ideally, communities dictate a rule of law to lead them towards some elements of justice and mutual benefit.
Community engagement is very important to strengthen the relationship between the individuals within the community. This motivate and empower people to take part in community activities which likely benefits the members to learn new skills and help them increase feeling of helpfulness and responsibility. In addition, reflecting on their practices is very significant as individuals benefits from community engagement, it is vital for each member to reflect on what they learn and perhaps share the knowledge with other community members. When we face problem, we approach it as a community and solve it in creative way
Sense of community has been operationalised as a state like entity, and as the outcome of certain social processes. As such, a conceptual framework has been developed that allows understanding of the way people are socialised into their communities and maintain, or fail to establish and maintain, social engagement. This has also been understood in terms of process analysis of social change. Its linkage to power is important, as it helps define the setting in which power is used and is less likely to be abused. From a process perspective, sense of community is a changing feature of people’s relationships to others, and as such can be a barometer of change in 18 18 community. It can be beneficial in helping people create a sense of identity and a resilience to untoward social change. As a central aspect of the development and maintenance of social connectedness, it is useful in conceptualising adaptive and protective factors for positive life in community. Sense of community can also be associated with negative aspects of social life. The nature of exclusion of ‘others’ can lead to harmful social consequences. Local social cohesiveness can be at the expense of minority groups and newly arrived immigrant groups. It can provide an analytic tool
A- CONTEMPORARY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES - Rights based approach: Aims and objectives: is tack the actions and mack the plan to establish the the community development skills and achive goles • involvement • responsibility • Non discrimination • Transparency • Human dignity • Self decisions • Rule of low 2-strength based approach: Aims and objectives: • Involving community members in making decisions about the issues that affect their lives implies changes in the balance of power • Includes all parts of the community • Recognises the length of time needed to achieve change • A learning process holistic process B- ASSET BASED COMMUNITY (ABCD): Foucasting on community Q2-Explain
Statistical Package for social sciences was used to run the analysis of the results. The participation in the study were males under 30 accounted for 21.7% male between 30-45 accounted for 40.8%, and males over age 45 accounted as
Today’s global competition, demands a country to keep the true identity., culture becomes the basic aspects that must be maintained, because of the existence of culture effects how closely humans in general act, and be friendly. Cultural or often we refer to as the culture has its own uniqueness, while others interest by the culture then this could make the place tourism.
Fifth Chapter is focused socioeconomic profile of the study area. A details of sample survey work done in the of prepared questionnaire and data collection.
This essay is the respond to the Local Council Member who has wrong idea about a common archetype of adventure tourist. This misconception based on ignorance of current tourism industry, could potentially be a dangerous for local economy and development. The local authority must be well informed about present conditions with the tourism market, before they will make a far reaching decisions about the development direction in this industry. Currently, there are many organisations whose monitoring an international tourism business and this knowledge supposed to be good use for our common good.
Nowadays in the rea of globalization, according to the World Tourism Organization, “seven hundred million people travelled abroad in 2003”, and the number is estimated to increase to 1.6 billion by 2020. (International Labour Organization, 2005). Tourism is spreading in unusual places. A lot of people want to be in the midst of adventure. It is a vital source of revenues for the GDP of many countries. I partially agree that tourism hugely benefits the local community. This essay will discuss some of the economic, social and environment effect of tourism on the host community.
In recent years, tourism marketing has gone through strategic changes with the improvement in new technologies, the chase of a relationship between customers and suppliers as well as the importance of sustainability issues in marketing. Marketing Tourism reconsiders the needs of the tourists but does not overlook on the long term economic, environmental, social and cultural interests of the local population. So, it means that marketing consider both the tourist demand and effect to society as
Studying the meaning dedicated to community among particular social groups involves the use of qual...
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