Local economic linkages to community-based tourism in rural Costa Rica

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 373-387

  Trejos, Bernardo ^a   Chiang, Lan Hung Nora ^b  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Community based tourism; Costa rica; Economic linkages; Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs); Rural development; Rural tourism

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

COSTA RICA;

CHIRA;

EID: 77249088300     PISSN: 01297619     EISSN: 14679493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9493.2009.00375.x     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Asociación Costarricense de Turismo Rural Comunitario (ACTUAR) (2007) Lista actualizada de socios activos de ACTUAR [Updated list of the active members of ACTUAR]. Internal document, ACTUAR, San José.
2. Asociación de Desarrollo Comunal Integral de la Isla de Chira (ADIIC) (2007) Propuesta: plan de desarrollo integral de las comunidades de la Isla de Chira [Proposal: integrated development plan for the communities on Chira Island]. Internal document, ADIIC, Chira.
3. Arrieta I (2007) Estudio sobre la situación sobre la tenencia de la tierra en las islas de Costa Rica [Study on the situation of land ownership on the islands of Costa Rica]. Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), San José. Available at http://www.uecatastro.org/componente2/ informeislas.pdf (last accessed September 2009).
4. Barrera A (2007) Compartiendo buenas prácticas: impactos de turismo rural comunitario en Costa Rica [Sharing good practices: impacts of community-based rural tourism in Costa Rica]. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), San José. Available at http://www.pequenasdonacionescr.org/index.php?option=om_docman&task=cat_view&gid=21 (last accessed September 2009).
5. Belsky JM (1999) Misrepresenting communities: the politics of community-based rural ecotourism in Gales Point Manatee, Belize. Rural Sociology 64 (4), 641-66.
6. Blackstock K (2005) A critical look at community based tourism. Community Development Journal 40 (1), 39-49.
7. Centro Centroamericano de Población (CCP) (2008) Costa Rica Population Census, 2000. Available from http://censos.ccp.ucr.ac.cr (accessed 3 June 2007).
8. Ceballos-Lascurain H (1996) Tourism, Ecotourism, and Protected Areas: The State of Nature-based Tourism around the World and Guidelines for its Development. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland and Cambridge.
9. Consorcio Cooperativo Red Ecoturística Nacional (COOPRENA) (2007) Nómina de afiliadas al 23 de Marzo del 2007 [Affiliated organizations at at 23 March 2007]. Internal document, COOPRENA, San José.
10. Cukier J (2002) Tourism employment issues in developing countries: examples from Indonesia. In Sharpley R, Telfer DJ (eds) Tourism and Development: Concepts and Issues, 165-201. Channel View Publications, Clevedon.
11. Fischer S, Wolff M (2006) Fisheries assessment of Callinectes arcuatus (Brachyura, Portunidae) in the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica. Fisheries Research 77 (3), 301-11.
12. Fisher J (1994) Is the iron law of oligarchy rusting away in the Third World? World Development 22 (2), 129-43
13. Gnosh RN, Siddique MAB, Gabbay R (2003) International tourism and economic development. In Gnosh RN, Siddique MAB, Gabbay R (eds) Tourism and Economic Development: Case studies from the Indian Ocean Region, 19-29. Ashgate, Hampshire.
14. Granovetter M (1983) The strength of weak ties: a network theory revisited. Sociological Theory 1, 201-33.
15. Granovetter M (2002) A theoretical agenda for economic sociology. In Guillen M, Collins R, England P, Meyer M (eds) The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Field, 35-59. Russell Sage Foundation, New York.
16. Granovetter M (2005) The impact of social structure on economic outcomes. Journal of Economic Perspectives 19 (1), 33-50.
17. Guereña A, Calderón G (2005) Turismo Rural Comunitario en Costa Rica: La Experiencia del Programa de Pequeñas Donaciones y sus Grupos Socios. [Community-based Rural Tourism in Costa Rica: The Experience of the Small Grants Programme and its Partner Groups.] UNDP, San José. Available at http://www.pequenasdonacionescr.org/dmdocuments/TRC_Costa_Rica%20CONSOLIDADO.pdf (last accessed September 2009).
18. Hampton MP (1998) Backpacker tourism and economic development. Annals of Tourism Research 25 (3), 639-60.
19. Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) (2006) Rural Community Tourism in Costa Rica and Replication in Central America. Donors Memorandum. IADB, San José. Available at http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=875549 (last accessed September 2009).
20. Jackiewicz EL (2005) Tourism without threat? Excerpts from rural Costa Rica. Annals of Tourism Research 31 (1), 266-8.
21. Jackiewicz EL (2008) Community-centred globalization: modernization under control in rural Costa Rica. Latin American Perspectives 33 (6), 136-46.
22. Jamal TB, Getz D (1995) Collaboration theory and community tourism planning. Annals of Tourism Research 22 (1), 186-204.
23. Jones S (2005) Community-based ecotourism: the significance of social capital. Annals of Tourism Research 32 (2), 303-24.
24. Kontogeorgopoulos N (1998) Accommodation employment patterns and opportunities. Annals of Tourism Research 25 (2), 314-39.
25. Kontogeorgopoulos N (2005) Community-based ecotourism in Phuket and Ao Phangnga, Thailand. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 13 (1), 4-23.
26. MacDonald R, Joliffe L (2003) Cultural rural tourism: evidence from Canada. Annals of Tourism Research 30 (2), 307-22.
27. MacLellan LR, Dieke PUC, Thapa BK (2000) Mountain tourism and public policy in Nepal. In Godde P, Price MF, Zimmermann FM (eds) Tourism and Development in Mountain Regions, 173-98. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau (CAB) International, Wallingford.
28. Mata E (2006) Pequeñas donaciones del Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial [Small grants from the Global Environment Facility]. Television interview, Channel 15, University of Costa Rica, San José, broadcast November 23.
29. Mbaiwa JE (2003) The socio-economic and environmental impacts of tourism development on the Okavango Delta, North-Western Botswana. Journal of Arid Environments 54 (2), 447-67.
30. Mbaiwa JE, Ngwenya BN, Kgathi DL (2008) Contending with unequal and privileged access to natural resources and land in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 29 (2), 155-72.
31. Mihalic T (2002) Tourism and economic development issues. In Sharpley R, Telfer DJ (eds) Tourism and Development: Concepts and Issues, 81-111. Channel View Publications, Clevedon.
32. Mitchell RE, Reid DG (2001) Community integration: island tourism in Peru. Annals of Tourism Research 28 (1), 113-39.
33. Ramsa-Yaman A, Mohd A (2004) Community-based ecotourism: a new proposition for sustainable development and environmental conservation in Malaysia. Journal of Applied Science 4 (4), 583-89. Available at http://scialert.net/pdfs/jas/2004/583-589.pdf (last accessed September 2009).
34. Reed MG (1997) Power relations and community-based tourism planning. Annals of Tourism Research 24 (3), 566-91.
35. Scheyvens R (1999) Ecotourism and the empowerment of local communities. Tourism Management 20, 245-9.
36. Scheyvens R (2002) Backpacker tourism and Third World development. Annals of Tourism Research 29 (1), 144-64.
37. Scheyvens R (2003) Local involvement in managing tourism. In Singh S, Timothy DJ, Dowling R (eds) Tourism in Destination Communities, 229-52. CAB International, Wallingford.
38. Sharpley R (2001) Sustainable rural tourism development: ideal or idyll? In Roberts L, Hall D (eds) Rural Tourism and Recreation: Principles to Practice, 57-8. CAB International, Wallingford.
39. Slee B, Farr H, Snowdon P (1997) The economic impact of alternative types of rural tourism. Journal of Agricultural Economics 48 (2), 179-92.
40. Solano L (2003) Experiencia Ambiental de Costa Rica en el Desarrollo y Posicionamiento del Ecoturismo [The Environmental Experience of Costa Rica in the Development and Positioning of Ecotourism]. UNDP, Havana.
41. Solís V, Fonseca M, Madrigal P (2006) Recursos Marino-Costeros: Una Reflexión desde el Uso Sostenible y la Conservación. [Coastal-marine Resources: A Reflection from Sustainable Use and Conservation.] Proyecto Estado de la Nación, San José. Available at http://www.estadonacion.or.cr/ Info2006/Ponencias/armonia/Recursos_marino-costeros.pdf (last accessed September 2009).
42. Stem CJ, Lassoie JP, Lee DR, Deshler DD, Schelhas JW (2003) Community participation in ecotourism benefits: the link to conservation practices and perspectives. Society and Natural Resources 16 (5), 387-413.
43. Telfer DJ (2001) Strategic alliances along the Niagara wine route. Tourism Management 22 (1), 21-30.
44. Telfer DJ, Wall G (1996) Linkages between tourism and food production. Annals of Tourism Research 23 (3), 635-53.
45. Telfer DJ, Wall G (2000) Strengthening backward economic linkages: local food purchasing by three Indonesian hotels. Tourism Geographies 2 (4), 421-47.
46. Tönnies F (1957) Community and Society. Michigan State University Press, East Lansing.
47. Torres R (2003) Linkages between tourism and agriculture in Mexico. Annals of Tourism Research 30 (3), 546-66.
48. Trejos B (2008) Community-Based Tourism in Rural Costa Rica: Support Networks, Locally-Owned Businesses and Local Economic Linkages. PhD dissertation, Department of Tropical Agriculture and International Cooperation, National Pingtung University of Science & Technology, Taiwan.
49. Trejos B, Huang WC, Chiang LHN (2006) Support networks for community-based rural tourism in Costa Rica. Journal of International Cooperation 1 (1), 88-106. Available at http://www.costarricense.cr/pagina/btrejos/CBT.htm (last accessed September 2009).
50. Trejos B, Chiang LHN, Huang WC (2008) Support Networks for Community-Based Tourism in Rural Costa Rica. The Open Area Studies Journal (online) 1, 16-25. Available at http://www.bentham.org/open/toarsj/openaccess2.htm (last accessed September 2009).
51. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (2003) The Real Costa Rica: Your Community-based Tourism Guide. UNDP, San José.
52. Wearing S, McDonald M (2002) The development of community-based tourism: re-thinking the relationship between operators and development agents as intermediaries in rural and isolated area communities. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 10 (3), 191-206.
53. Weaver DB, Lawton LJ (2007) Twenty years on: the state of contemporary ecotourism research. Tourism Management 28 (5), 1168-79.
54. Wunder S (2000) Ecotourism and economic incentives: an empirical approach. Ecological Economics 32, 465-79.
55. Yin RK (2003) Case Study Research: Design and Methods. Sage, Thousand Oaks.