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Author : Anna Hübner & Truong Si Hong Chau
School/Work Place : GIZ PNKB Region Project, Viet Nam
Contact : to.annah@t-online.de
Year : 2013

The management of protected areas has to deal with a wide range of challenges, amongst these, a growing array of social, political and economic expectations. In this regard, protected areas are increasingly expected to particularly serve as a natural income resource from recreational and touristic activities. While tourism is often considered a viable option for generating income which benefits the conservation of a protected area, there are many cases in which insufficient and intransparent planning hinder sustainable development, thereby reducing local benefit sharing and, ultimately, nature conservation.

Community-based tourism (CbT), which most often combines eco-touristic activities in rural areas, has often been described to foster conservation and to mitigate negative impacts of local communities living in or close to protected areas. Yet, such idealistic approaches have often neglected intra- and inter-community relationships and differences as well as local political environments which take a significant impact on the long-term viability of CbT concepts.

Based on the case study of the Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park Region, this presentation focuses on an analysis of the integration of local ethnic communities into park and buffer zone planning. Based on pre-determined understandings prevailing about ethnic minority groups or rural populations in the stakeholder environment, this is then taken as a starting point for discussing potential challenges and opportunities deriving for development of CbT in the northern Park Region, with particular focus on reducing illegal use of natural resources as well as on socio-economic development.


List of Articles
No. Subject Viewssort Date
145 Think Tank X Cultural-Touristic Network Altenkirchen – Perspective ... file 10471 Oct 13, 2013

Altenkirchen is situated in Westerwald/Raiffeisen region of Germany (between the cities of Bonn, Cologne, Mainz and Wiesbaden) and in addition to the 7,000 city inhabitants includes 42 municipalities with a further 24,000 people. It is a ci...

Author: Sanja Zerlauth & Dietmar Wiegand 

Year: 2010 

144 Think Tank X Sustainability: What Matters to Students, Educators, a... file 10403 Oct 13, 2013

As climate change gains global attention from events like the summit in Copenhagen held during December of 2009, the need for sustainable tourism is more important than ever; with comprehensive education in sustainability concepts and practi...

Author: Cynthia S. Deale & Nelson Barber 

Year: 2010 

143 Think Tank VII Environmentally Sustainable Practices of Victorian Tou... file 10392 Oct 13, 2013

Environmental sustainability has been a growing concern in our society for the past twenty years, and is a primary issue of many leaders of the tourism industry. In spite of the many efforts to encourage and/or enforce environmentally sound ...

Author: Sue Beeton, Sue Bergin-Seers & Christine Lee 

Year: 2007 

142 Think Tank IX Revitalizing Community Values through Railway Regenera... file 10188 Oct 13, 2013

This paper presents a tourism research and education approach for the optimization of social capital invested in community action in support of railway tourism in the Asia Pacific region. The main hypothesis of the research is that railway r...

Author: Ian Chaplin 

Year: 2009 

141 Think Tank VII Web 2.0, Tourist Activated Networks and Sustainability... file 10080 Oct 13, 2013

With the emergence of Web 2.0, the Internet has begun to realize its potential in supporting the tourism experience. This presentation will first identify a number of applications within Web 2.0 that are visitor oriented - from Expedia and T...

Author: Daniel Fesenmaier 

Year: 2007 

140 Think Tank IX Community based sustainable tourism: Quality of life a... file 10029 Oct 13, 2013

This paper explores the concept of quality of life (QOL) as perceived by residents in tourism destinations and examines differences in perceptions of QOL among culturally different destinations. The perceived QOL of local community is an imp...

Author: Yvette Reisinger & Kwang-Soo Park 

Year: 2009 

139 Think Tank XII Furthering the Understanding of the Slow Travel Phenom... file 10005 Nov 06, 2013

Slow travel is a relatively new concept. Originally this was a grass root movement, which now is becoming an interest area for scholars. The first organised networks and forums started to emerge approximately a decade ago. A slow travel webs...

Author: Tina Roenhovde Tiller 

Year: 2012 

138 Think Tank XII Destination Governance and Tourist Mobilities: New Par... file 9853 Nov 06, 2013

Resort communities are complex systems where destination governance has become increasingly challenged by new mobilities of capital, finance, labor, communication, transportation, leisure and tourism. Popular destinations like the coastal co...

Author: Dianne Dredge & Tazim Jamal 

Year: 2012 

137 Think Tank XI Environmental Attitudes of Generation Y Students: Foun... file 9829 Oct 14, 2013

Sustainability has long been a theme in the tourism research and planning literature and is a growing concern in the wider area of business and corporate management. Consequent to these trends in practice and research there has been a growt...

Author: Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna Moscardo & Laurie Murphy 

Year: 2011 

136 Think Tank IX What do sustainable tourism researchers value? An anal... file 9780 Oct 13, 2013

Sustainable Tourism has emerged as a major field of specialisation within tourism and has been so pervasive that some have suggested that the field represents a fifth platform of tourism research, while others have argued that the field has...

Author: Pierre Benckendorff 

Year: 2009 

135 Think Tank VI Sustainable tourist accommodation management: The role... file 9651 Oct 13, 2013

The integration of sustainability within the domain of tourism has recently made considerable progress. For instance, in the UK and the Netherlands, the most important federations of tour operators, the FTO and the ANVR, have introduced obli...

Author: Menno Houtstra 

Year: 2006 

134 OPA award Slow Travellers - Who Are They, and What Motivates Them? file 9537 Nov 06, 2013

Tourism’s contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is estimated to be around 5% and is forecast to grow rapidly, to around 16% of global emissions by 2020. Future strategies for mitigation must address the levels of demand for t...

Author: Derek Robbins & Jaedong Cho 

Year: 2012 

OPA: 2012 Outstanding Paper Award Winner 

133 Think Tank VIII Community Actions to Engage Local Residents in Tourism... file 9532 Dec 19, 2013

This paper explores the residents’ knowledge of community actions to engage local members in tourism planning and development in the King Cobra Village of Thailand. The degree of participatory ability which is associated with the public atti...

Author: Kitsada Tungchawal 

Year: 2008 

132 Think Tank VIII Sustaining through Gastronomy: The Case of Slow Food M... file 9387 Oct 13, 2013

This paper is conducted within the interpretive paradigm, using subjectivist, non-positivist, qualitative approach to research started out of writer’s personal motivation after being exposed to a couple of Slow Food conviviums in the recent ...

Author: Miha Bratec 

Year: 2008 

131 Think Tank IV Environmental Training and Measures at Scandic Hotels,... file 9297 Dec 01, 2013

Hotels are traditionally geared towards providing a high-level of comfort and entertainment, as well as a broad spectrum of services, often without giving much concern to associated environmental or socio-economic impacts. Hotel companies ty...

Author: Paulina Bohdanowicz, Branko Simanic & Ivo Martinac 

Year: 2004 

OPA: 2004 Outstanding Paper Award Winner 

130 Think Tank XII Employee Work Attitudes, Mobility and Promotional Oppo... file 9254 Nov 06, 2013

The issue of employee mobility is brought into sharp focus in times of economic and social uncertainty. Previous studies into the causes of employee mobility have investigated, among other determinants, the link between the promotional oppor...

Author: Margaret Deery, Leo Jago & Michael Stewart 

Year: 2012 

129 Think Tank VII Volunteer Tourism: Sustainable Innovation in Tourism, ... file 9181 Oct 13, 2013

This is a study of the relationships between two volunteer tourism host communities and the volunteer tourists who visit them. One is a declining rural community located in the Appalachian mountains of the United States. The other is in a ra...

Author: Nancy McGehee 

Year: 2007 

128 Think Tank XIV A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Sustainab... file 9149 Jun 26, 2014

Emerging tourist destinations can challenge ecological, economic, social, and quality of life barriers. These issues draw attention towards the consequences of increasing complexity that are often found as a tourist marketing system grows an...

Author: Sarah Duffy & Larry Dwyer 

Year: 2014 

OPA: 2014 Outstanding Paper Award Winner 

127 Think Tank XV A vacation from capitalism; what happens when the ‘mas... file 9014 Jul 27, 2015

Philosophical and theoretical debates in tourism must be situated not just within economic and cultural contexts, but also political and social ones (Ataljevic, Pritchard & Morgan, 2007). Tourism is more than an ‘industry,’ Freya Higgins...

Author: Amy Savener 

Year: 2015 

126 Think Tank VI Corporate Social Responsibility and Marine Tourism Org... file 8933 Oct 13, 2013

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an important issue for some governments but the tourism industry appears to be slow in adopting CSR strategies. By focusing on CSR, we argue that the implementation of CSR audits could help t...

Author: Ya-Ting Huang, David Botterill & Eleri Jones 

Year: 2006 

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