Best practice model for community capacity-building: A case study of community-based tourism enterprises in Kenya

Tourism

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 403-415

  Manyara, Geoffrey ^a   Jones, Eleri ^a  

^a CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Community based tourism; Kenya; Powerty alleviation; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349118893     PISSN: 13327461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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