Challenges to Implementing Community Based Ecotourism : Sustainability of Sustainable Development Discourse

ISBN-13: 9783659937927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 404 str.

Chaminda Kumara

Opis

Community based ecotourism (CBET) is a well-established concept and its implementation has been an important component for many regional development strategies. This Book argues that CBET originated as a Western concept, and there are many successful CBET projects. However, CBET operates within geo-political, economic and cultural contexts, which generate challenges for its implementation. This volume discusses a CBET initiative in the Kudawa- Sinharaja site, Sri Lanka which shifted in 1995 from a central government approach to a community forest informed master plan, in line with Western CBET development models. This case study therefore provides the opportunity to explore the success of this CBET project.

O autorze

H.I.G. Chaminda Kumara, BA, MPhil in Geography, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. MSc in Department of Management, University of Agder, Norway , PhD in Department of Geography, Tourism and Environmental Planning , University of Waikato, New Zealand. Presently a Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka.