Experiences of community-based tourism in Romania: chances and challenges

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dc.contributorGeografía Humanaes_ES
dc.contributor.authorHavadi Nagy, Kinga Xénia-
dc.contributor.authorEspinosa Seguí, Ana-
dc.contributor.otherUniversidad de Alicante. Departamento de Geografía Humanaes_ES
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-14T08:55:54Z-
dc.date.available2020-12-14T08:55:54Z-
dc.date.issued2020-02-10-
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Tourism Analysis: Revista de Análisis Turístico. 2020, 27(2): 143-163. https://doi.org/10.1108/JTA-08-2019-0033es_ES
dc.identifier.issn2254-0644-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10045/110939-
dc.description.abstractPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse community-based tourism (CBT) initiatives in the post-socialist rural Romania in terms of the holism of the tourist project and the implementation of the local participation. The paper focusses on chances and challenges of CBT. Design/methodology/approach – Once the main objective was established, three research interests arose: How and why tourism played a significant role in the economic and social development of the rural local community? How has the local community participated in the starting and maintenance of the CBT projects and who played a key part? How can the level of success of the CBT implementations be qualitatively measured? Qualitative methodologies (interviews, on-site observations, informal discussions) were applied to survey the four case studies. Findings – Natural and cultural features ensure a versatile potential for touristic exploitation of the Romanian rural area, but the villages are endangered by post-socialist economic and social transformations. Innovative approaches of CBT in rural areas ignited by charismatic leaders with entrepreneurial spirit develop based on the existent social, natural and cultural capital, but on the other hand, endeavours can be vulnerable because of hindering local municipalities or sustainability issues. Practical implications – The findings facilitate recommendations in favour of effective CBT ventures. Originality/value – Learning about the contribution of CBT to a sustainable development of rural regions with no/little tradition of private entrepreneurship can contribute to the revitalization of rural areas facing post-socialist challenges.es_ES
dc.languageenges_ES
dc.publisherEmeraldes_ES
dc.rights© 2020, Kinga Xénia Havadi Nagy and Ana Espinosa Segui. Published in Journal of Tourism Analysis: Revista de Análisis Turístico. Published by Emerald Publishing Limited. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcodees_ES
dc.subjectCommunity-based tourismes_ES
dc.subjectParticipative developmentes_ES
dc.subjectRural Romaniaes_ES
dc.subject.otherGeografía Humanaes_ES
dc.titleExperiences of community-based tourism in Romania: chances and challengeses_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees_ES
dc.peerreviewedsies_ES
dc.identifier.doi10.1108/JTA-08-2019-0033-
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://doi.org/10.1108/JTA-08-2019-0033es_ES
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