Abstract
This study was conducted to identify the potentials, Challenges of community- based ecotourism at Haro Aba Diko Controlled Hunting area, South western Ethiopia. Community -based ecotourism has become the most basic tool to meet livelihood demand across the world. Primary and secondary data were used for this study. Purposive and simple random sampling methods were used to select kebeles and 140 sample respondents respectively. To select key informant snowball method was used. Quantitative data was analyzed using frequency, percentage and mean whereas the qualitative data was used to triangulate and authenticate the study. The result of the study indicated that Haro Aba Diko Controlled Hunting area had huge resource potentials such as attractive flora and fauna ,Dabena and Didesa river with attractive cultural resource like Cultural dance, cultural food and drinks .Having this potentials community based ecotourism establishment is constrained by lack of awareness, basic infrastructures, tourism professionals and Illegal activity of community like Settlements within the Controlled Hunting Area and Conversions of forest lands to Agricultural lands. To empower the establishment of community based ecotourism, awareness creation program, promotion activity, filling gap of community social infrastructures and further study in the study area should be needed. Keywords: Community -based, Ecotourism, Challenges, Potentials DOI: 10.7176/JRDM/68-01 Publication date: August 31 st 2020
Highlights
1.1 Background and Justifications Tourism is the major and fastest-growing industries in the world
Description of the study area 3.1.1 LOCATION The study was conducted at Haro Aba Diko Controlled Hunting area, south western of oromia region, Bunno Bedele Zone
Research Methods 3.2.1 Study site selections and Sampling design The rational for selecting Haro Aba Diko Controlled Hunting area was the presence of various potential resource for community -based ecotourism development .Mixed research approach is used employing both probability and non-probabilty sampling methoth,Purposive, simple random sampling and snowball methods were used to select kebeles, Respondents and key informants respectively
Summary
1.1 Background and Justifications Tourism is the major and fastest-growing industries in the world. The contribution of tourism industry to the global economy has grown fast in recent years It has become one of the leading foreign exchange earnings for many countries.With a growing interest to spend leisure time in nature and growing awareness of environmentalism, ecotourism has become one of the fastest-growing sectors of the tourism industry.(TIES, 2016) , reported that ecotourism provides better sectoral linkages, reducing leakage of benefits out of the country, creating local employment and fostering sustainable development. It has been promoted as a means of reconciliation biodiversity conservation with economic development, mainly in developing countries. This study investigated to fill such knowledge gaps on tourism in general and community based ecotourism in particular
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