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Community-based Ecotourism as a Sustainable
Development Option. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Oct 2008, Pages: 152
This book discusses the development of community
ecotourism in south-eastern Kenya. The indigenous
mountain rain forests of the Taita Hills are rich in
biodiversity, but severely degraded. Alternative
livelihoods are needed among the Taita people and
community ecotourism offers one potential source of
income while reviving the fading cultural traditions
and indigenous knowledge about forest use. This case
study combines anthropocentric and bio centric
premises to examine existing and potential resources
and their hindrances. The arguments are couched
around factors that are essential to the viability of
the local ecosystems and communities. The nexus of
these factors are then discussed within the context
of the external political, social and economic forces
impacting upon the sustainable development of the
area. Using an ecotourism potentiality analysis, the
case study focuses upon three forest areas and one
village. The book will be especially useful to
professionals in nature conservation and tourism
fields as well as for development agencies, NGOs,
academic institutions and local and regional site
developers.
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