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Sustaining Ecotourism in Tanzania through Community Empowerment

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dc.creator Pasape, Liliane
dc.creator Anderson, Wineaster
dc.creator Lindi, George
dc.date 2016-04-15T12:52:59Z
dc.date 2016-04-15T12:52:59Z
dc.date 2014
dc.date.accessioned 2018-04-18T12:36:41Z
dc.date.available 2018-04-18T12:36:41Z
dc.identifier Pasape, L., Anderson, W. and Lindi, G., 2014. Sustaining ecotourism in Tanzania through community empowerment. Journal of Tourism Research/Revista De Investigación En Turismo, 7, pp.7-25.
dc.identifier 2014-4458
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1549
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/11493
dc.description This study explores the contribution of community empowerment to the sustainability of ecotourism in Tanzania using education programmes, access to information and language. Through the survey approach data was collected from Tanzania’s ecotourism stakeholders (N=250) in the eight selected regions of Dar es Salaam, Pwani, Morogoro, Tanga and Zanzibar (for the eastern tourism circuit) and Arusha, Kilimanjaro and Manyara (for the northern circuit) and thereafter a qualitative analysis was employed complemented by estimation of the multinomial logistic regression model. The findings show that tourism stakeholders lack sufficient knowledge on ecotourism conservation and preservation. Likewise community members have poor access to information due to insufficient ecotourism publications, tourist information centres, a reliable mechanism for communicating with stakeholders and the use of foreign languages in most of the publications. It is therefore the study’s recommendation that community members be empowered through being provided with adequate education programmes and access to relevant information and the use of a language that is understood by them in order to broaden their level of understanding, enhance their management skills and contribute significantly to ecotourism-related activities.
dc.language en
dc.subject Community empowerment
dc.subject Education programmes
dc.subject Access to information
dc.subject Language
dc.subject Sustainable ecotourism
dc.subject Tanzania
dc.title Sustaining Ecotourism in Tanzania through Community Empowerment
dc.type Journal Article, Peer Reviewed


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