Abstract
This paper investigates the use of the Knowledge Attitude Practices (KAP) survey and suggests its extension to Knowledge Attitude Skills Practices (KSAP). It brings value to tourism theories at the level of the tourist and hosts, and argues that communities must be capacitated with the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices that transcend tourism. This is a conceptual paper, compiled using secondary data that already exists in the public domain. The paper suggests carrying out surveys that incorporate KSAP regarding CBT at level 1, tourism at level 2, and livelihoods at level 3, for a holistic understanding of these aspects among community members, tourists, and other stakeholders. The KSAP model posited in this paper is a tool that may be used by considering the prevailing local conditions and contexts, and the appropriate unit of analysis from tourism stakeholders.
Highlights
This paper investigates the use of the Knowledge Attitude Practices (KAP) survey and suggests its extension to Knowledge Attitude Skills Practices (KSAP)
This paper suggests an extended version of KAP to include ‘Skills’, given their importance in tourism and other economic sectors
We argue that this is important because capacity building must centre on upskilling community members with knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices that transcend tourism
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Community-based tourism (CBT) is a popular tourism development strategy [1]. It is a tourism development model is meant to achieve sustainable community development, through enterprises owned and managed by communities for their benefit [2]. According to the World Bank [3], CBT is about adventure tourism, which is a fast growing travel niche today, with visitor growth forecasted to increase from 7% to 10% in the African market
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