Planning for Community Based Tourism in a Remote Location

Sharon Harwood

doi:10.3390/su2071909

Abstract

Remote areas are difficult to access, tend to lack critical infrastructure, are highly susceptible to shocks in the marketplace, and are perceived by industry to possess limited development opportunities. Accordingly a community orientated and territorial approach to development planning in a remote area will be more successful than a top down industry based approach [1]. Given the limitations of being remote, the case study community examined in this research manages and sustains a bird watching tourism product within a global market place. This paper examines how a remotely located community in the Arfak Mountains of West Papua overcomes these difficulties and plans for community based tourism (CBT) in their locale.

Highlights

The word planning may be used in different ways and as a society we accept the term planning to describe a variety of activities such as financial planning, transport planning, social planning and business planning
The purpose of this paper is to examine how a remotely located community in the Arfak Mountains of West Papua plan for community based tourism (CBT)
The ability of the business to sustain itself both within the community and in the market place is the responsibility of the developer (TG and tour operator (TO)), irrespective of the benefits that the community derive from the use

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Introduction

The word planning may be used in different ways and as a society we accept the term planning to describe a variety of activities such as financial planning, transport planning, social planning and business planning. The term planning is used in this paper to refer to the publicly guided transformation of space [3]. Planning is a process of human forethought and the subsequent actions based upon that thought that are focused upon the future [4]. Planning is future orientated and simultaneously optimistic because it assumes the ability of the humans within the system to control the forces that impact upon the future [4]

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