Planning for Community Based Tourism in a Remote Location

Sharon Harwood
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Sharon Harwood: Coffey Environments, Level 1 2-3 Greenhill Rd, Wayville, South Australia 5034, Australia

Sustainability, 2010, vol. 2, issue 7, 1-15

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.

Keywords: community based tourism; remote; planning; tourism; West Papua; bird watching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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