Understanding Communities’ Disaffection to Participate in Tourism in Protected Areas: A Social Representational Approach
This manuscript uses a social-representational approach that allows for including social interactions, history and cultural background to explain and cluster resident attitudes to tourism in protected areas in developing countries. Based on the published evidence on the failure of community-based to...
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doaj-3101dbce41a64c249478c8e46c3432762020-11-25T03:35:27ZengMDPI AGSustainability2071-10502020-05-01123677367710.3390/su12093677Understanding Communities’ Disaffection to Participate in Tourism in Protected Areas: A Social Representational ApproachBirame Sarr0Matías Manuel González-Hernández1Jose Boza-Chirino2Javier de León3Institute for Tourism and Economic Sustainable Development, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35017 Gran Canaria, SpainInstitute for Tourism and Economic Sustainable Development, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35017 Gran Canaria, SpainInstitute for Tourism and Economic Sustainable Development, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35017 Gran Canaria, SpainInstitute for Tourism and Economic Sustainable Development, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35017 Gran Canaria, SpainThis manuscript uses a social-representational approach that allows for including social interactions, history and cultural background to explain and cluster resident attitudes to tourism in protected areas in developing countries. Based on the published evidence on the failure of community-based tourism programmes and projects that aim to achieve community engagement and benefits, and on scholars attributing those failures to the lack of consideration given to the perceptions and ambitions of the communities, that in turn are split into different groups that perceive tourism dissimilarly, we propose a pathway to encouraging community engagement and participation. Field work carried out throughout the settlements neighbouring the National Park of La Langue de Barbarie in northern Senegal allowed to identify three group profiles: The largest minority are reluctant to accept any type of tourism at all, a second minority actively supports another type of community-based tourism, more locally centred, and a third group consists of those mainly wanting to escape their unwanted existence and migrate. We conclude that, to achieve successful sustainable tourism development, interventions should capacitate the group that supports tourism to lead initiatives, seduce the reluctant ones, energise those who seek to migrate and negotiate with the external tourist agents to achieve more equitable tourism development in which locals actively participate.https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/9/3677community-based tourismprotected areastourism planning failuressocial representationcluster analysis |
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Birame Sarr Matías Manuel González-Hernández Jose Boza-Chirino Javier de León Understanding Communities’ Disaffection to Participate in Tourism in Protected Areas: A Social Representational Approach Sustainability community-based tourism protected areas tourism planning failures social representation cluster analysis |
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Birame Sarr Matías Manuel González-Hernández Jose Boza-Chirino Javier de León |
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Birame Sarr |
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Understanding Communities’ Disaffection to Participate in Tourism in Protected Areas: A Social Representational Approach |
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Understanding Communities’ Disaffection to Participate in Tourism in Protected Areas: A Social Representational Approach |
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Understanding Communities’ Disaffection to Participate in Tourism in Protected Areas: A Social Representational Approach |
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Understanding Communities’ Disaffection to Participate in Tourism in Protected Areas: A Social Representational Approach |
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Understanding Communities’ Disaffection to Participate in Tourism in Protected Areas: A Social Representational Approach |
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understanding communities’ disaffection to participate in tourism in protected areas: a social representational approach |
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Sustainability |
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2071-1050 |
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2020-05-01 |
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This manuscript uses a social-representational approach that allows for including social interactions, history and cultural background to explain and cluster resident attitudes to tourism in protected areas in developing countries. Based on the published evidence on the failure of community-based tourism programmes and projects that aim to achieve community engagement and benefits, and on scholars attributing those failures to the lack of consideration given to the perceptions and ambitions of the communities, that in turn are split into different groups that perceive tourism dissimilarly, we propose a pathway to encouraging community engagement and participation. Field work carried out throughout the settlements neighbouring the National Park of La Langue de Barbarie in northern Senegal allowed to identify three group profiles: The largest minority are reluctant to accept any type of tourism at all, a second minority actively supports another type of community-based tourism, more locally centred, and a third group consists of those mainly wanting to escape their unwanted existence and migrate. We conclude that, to achieve successful sustainable tourism development, interventions should capacitate the group that supports tourism to lead initiatives, seduce the reluctant ones, energise those who seek to migrate and negotiate with the external tourist agents to achieve more equitable tourism development in which locals actively participate. |
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community-based tourism protected areas tourism planning failures social representation cluster analysis |
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