EDRD 4010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Capacity Building, Communitarianism, Commodification

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Environmental Design and Rural Development
• Course: EDRD 4010
• Professor: Marianne Staempfli

Document Summary

Tourism in societies that adhere to traditional culture must be seen through kinship and communitarianism. Strong social and ethnic connections that people hold need to be used as the foundation on which tourism is built. Host communities must be willing to share their ways of life/culture with the world, while realizing outsiders may change their way of life/culture/traditions. Guests need to be respectful of host communities and their individual cultures and way of life. Education of host community needs to be responsibility of tourist industry and destination sites. Tourism development must be the result of a negotiated process involving a wide range of stakeholder groups (those who ultimately must live with the final product) Community itself main attraction for tourism (cid:523)local peoples(cid:495) way of life, culture and traditions that are (cid:494)packaged(cid:495) and sold by agents under various labels(cid:524: commodification of culture: the process of selling culture.