Community participation in sustainable rural tourism experience creation: a long-term appraisal and lessons from a thematic villages project in Poland

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Volumn 23, Issue 8-9, 2015, Pages 1341-1362

  Idziak, Wacław ^a   Majewski, Janusz ^b   Zmyślony, Piotr ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

^b POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c POZNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Poland)

Author keywords

community involvement; community based tourism planning; community created sustainable rural tourism development; participatory action research; sustainable rural tourism; thematic villages

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; ECOTOURISM; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; VILLAGE;

POLAND;

EID: 84943450191     PISSN: 09669582     EISSN: 17477646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2015.1019513     Document Type: Article

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