Building community capacity for tourism development, Gianna Moscardo (Ed.)

摘要

The critical role of tourism to support regional development in rural, remote and peripheral regions is well documented and advocated in both the academic and the professional literature. However, the literature also very frequently documents the ability of destinations to materialise and benefit from the positive aspects of tourism development, while to also minimise and control its negative impacts. Major factors contributing to the later have been acknowledged to include the following: lack of local entrepreneurial capacity to benefit from tourism business opportunities, inadequate understanding of tourism markets and limited community awareness of tourism and its impacts.