The Benefits of Community Led Sustainable Tourism Development
Benefits to the local community This approach provides local people with the opportunity to influence and become involved in developing their own communities. It brings about improvements in local social, recreational, environmental and historic amenities for both locals and visitors alike and creates an environmentally sensitive and locally controlled tourism sector, which develops business and employment opportunities for local people, and keeps money within the local economy.
Benefits to the local environment This approach will lead to improved access to the countryside and heritage of local communities, better interpretation of environmental assets and improved maintenance of rights of way. It will also improve the awareness in the local community of the importance and potential of the environment to the local economy.
Benefits to local businesses This approach will help local businesses to create a locally owned quality tourism experience that can be enjoyed all year round, thus reducing dependence on the traditional holiday periods and ensuring that most of the profits remain in the local economy.
It will allow the expansion and development of the tourism sector within the area. For those offering accommodation it will enable them to develop their business in phases, as and when finance is available.
It will provide a “motor” for development: craft and food producers can access a local market, as well as the usual, more-distant markets and will provide a regular and reliable supplement to household incomes, helping to replace some of the employment opportunities last through the decline of more traditional economies. For those offering accommodation their businesses can be developed in phases as and when finance is available. It can also bring benefits to those who might not wish to be directly involved in tourism, businesses such as local shopkeepers, local historians, naturalists, or the members of local folk groups.
Benefits to local authority and development agency partners This approach provides the means for agency and authority partners to work intensively together and with communities around a key development activity at the local level.
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