Community supporting attitude toward community-based tourism development; non-participants perspective

• Main Authors: Ebrahimi, Sajad, Khalifah, Zainab
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2014
• Subjects: HD Industries. Land use. Labor
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/52153/1/SajadEbrahimi2014_Communitysupportingattitudetoward.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/52153/; http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v10n17p29
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Non-participants in a host community play a vital role in the success of that destination. Community participation issues in a destination may propel a community to fail in their relations, businesses and attachments. In addition, there is a bias toward participants rather than non-participants in previous studies and non-participants in tourism activities have been neglected, therefore this study aims to investigate the supporting behavior of those non-participants and tries to identify factors discourage local people to participate in Community-Based Tourism activities by using a qualitative local participation approach. The results indicate the existence of a wide range of factors including; relation with current participants; time and capital limitations; religious and cultural sensitivities; envious sensitivities and communication barriers effect local participation in community-based tourism and specifically Malaysia Homestay Program.