Tourism and community capacity building : a literature review.

• Main Authors: Aref, Fariborz, Redzun, Ma'arof
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17442/
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Tourism as an industry is increasing rapidly in developing countries. Tourism is simultaneously portrayed as a destroyer of culture, undermining social norms and economies, degrading social structures, stripping communities of individuality and as a savior of the poor and disadvantaged, providing op...