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A Pre-Condition Evaluation and Management Model for Community-Based Tourism


S Jugmohan
JN Steyn

Abstract

Tourism is often regarded as a vehicle for the economic development of disadvantaged rural communities. Although the concept is good in principle, the successful implementation of community-based tourism projects has proved to be problematic. This article focuses on the preconditions required for the successful implementation of community based tourism development projects. A list of pre-conditions extracted from a literature study (the research design) is compiled and subsequently field-tested on existing CBT projects in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. A CBT pre-conditions model is subsequently proposed and an implementation strategy suggested.

Keywords: Community –Based Tourism, Community Development, Pre-condition and Management Model, Tourism, South Africa


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