Tourism, according to United Nation World Tourism Organization (Tourism Glossary, 2014), is “a social, cultural and economic phenomenon which entails the movement of people to countries or places outside their usual environment for personal or business/professional purposes. These people are called visitors (which may be either tourists or excursionists; residents or nonresidents) and tourism has to do with their activities, some of which involve tourism expenditure.”
The first thing that needs to be distinguished in tourism is between place and space. Gordon and Goodall (as cited in Shaw & Williams, 2004), deliberately echoing Massey’s views, comment that “tourism places are shaped by the sequence of roles which each has played in the spatial division both of tourism and of other economic activities”. Places do not exist as such but are actively constructed by social processes, including tourism and places are constantly changing over time, through both their internal dynamics and the manner in which these interact with external and increasingly globalized processes of change (Shaw & Williams, 2004). The difference between these two terms is understood in terms of place being the product of socialized human beings. …show more content…
Shaw and William (2004) defined these two things as,” Places are open, not closed, and they are actively created and being re-created as it was stated before social processes. They should be seen as the outcome of process whereby the people in the community and the others seek to contest the trajectory of change in certain place (Shaw & Williams, 2004).”
These past years community tourism is becoming a growing trend, as new generations of travellers seek more meaningful adventures from their leisure time. Community tourism is a form of tourism that aims to include and benefit the local community. It fosters opportunities for local people who want to participate more fully in the tourism industry (Carr, 2011).
Community-based development is a method used to mobilize the communities to participate in broadening the scope offerings in the industry. Also, community-based development allows people to be more aware of the value of their community treasure. Furthermore, it mobilizes them to convert their treasure generating projects while offering a more diverse and worthwhile experience to the tourists. (Carr, 2011) A community-based tourism, tourists are able to experience rare opportunities in the local community first hand and they are able to discover local habitats and respect traditional cultures, rituals, and wisdom. But, tourism concentrations are not always the same. Their comparative advantages may change over time, possibly because of shifts in consumption or because of the inherent contradictions of the process of accumulation: ‘over-development’ may take place because of noise, pollution and the sheer pressures of the increasing numbers of tourists (Shaw & Williams, 2004). Tourism was once represented as an easy option for economic development because it relied largely on natural resources that already in place and hence required no vast capital expense for infrastructure. (Lyon & Wells, …show more content…
In some cases the emergence of a new entrepreneurial class leads to the strengthening of a middle-income group; elsewhere the existing power structure is simply reinforced by the growth of tourism, with those in the lower classes moving into the lowest layers of workers in the industry, while the wealthy are made even richer by the proceeds of the new development”. The local community is bound into the wider structure of the society at large, many of the benefits—and much new power—flow into hands of people outside the immediate region on town (de Kadt,
The first thing that needs to be distinguished in tourism is between place and space. Gordon and Goodall (as cited in Shaw & Williams, 2004), deliberately echoing Massey’s views, comment that “tourism places are shaped by the sequence of roles which each has played in the spatial division both of tourism and of other economic activities”. Places do not exist as such but are actively constructed by social processes, including tourism and places are constantly changing over time, through both their internal dynamics and the manner in which these interact with external and increasingly globalized processes of change (Shaw & Williams, 2004). The difference between these two terms is understood in terms of place being the product of socialized human beings. …show more content…
Shaw and William (2004) defined these two things as,” Places are open, not closed, and they are actively created and being re-created as it was stated before social processes. They should be seen as the outcome of process whereby the people in the community and the others seek to contest the trajectory of change in certain place (Shaw & Williams, 2004).”
These past years community tourism is becoming a growing trend, as new generations of travellers seek more meaningful adventures from their leisure time. Community tourism is a form of tourism that aims to include and benefit the local community. It fosters opportunities for local people who want to participate more fully in the tourism industry (Carr, 2011).
Community-based development is a method used to mobilize the communities to participate in broadening the scope offerings in the industry. Also, community-based development allows people to be more aware of the value of their community treasure. Furthermore, it mobilizes them to convert their treasure generating projects while offering a more diverse and worthwhile experience to the tourists. (Carr, 2011) A community-based tourism, tourists are able to experience rare opportunities in the local community first hand and they are able to discover local habitats and respect traditional cultures, rituals, and wisdom. But, tourism concentrations are not always the same. Their comparative advantages may change over time, possibly because of shifts in consumption or because of the inherent contradictions of the process of accumulation: ‘over-development’ may take place because of noise, pollution and the sheer pressures of the increasing numbers of tourists (Shaw & Williams, 2004). Tourism was once represented as an easy option for economic development because it relied largely on natural resources that already in place and hence required no vast capital expense for infrastructure. (Lyon & Wells, …show more content…
In some cases the emergence of a new entrepreneurial class leads to the strengthening of a middle-income group; elsewhere the existing power structure is simply reinforced by the growth of tourism, with those in the lower classes moving into the lowest layers of workers in the industry, while the wealthy are made even richer by the proceeds of the new development”. The local community is bound into the wider structure of the society at large, many of the benefits—and much new power—flow into hands of people outside the immediate region on town (de Kadt,