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    The document discusses best practices and challenges for community-based tourism in rural areas of the APEC region. It notes that while rural communities face shared challenges in developing tourism, such as vulnerable ecosystems, cultural disruption, and lack of funding, there is no single standard approach and communities should design tourism that works for their unique situations. The document provides frameworks and questions for communities to holistically plan tourism that achieves long-term social and environmental benefits.

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    BEST PRACTICES AND CHALLENGES OF

    COMMUNITY-BASED TOURISM IN APEC


    RURAL AREAS

    Carolyn Childs
    CEO, Strategist, Futurist
    Founder of MyTravelResearch.com, Australia
    Board Member and Regional Tourism Ambassador
    Australian Regional Tourism
    Outline
    Tourism as a living and dynamic system

    Across the APEC region our rural areas


    share challenges in developing tourism

    Some principles we can apply to make


    tourism work for regional communities

    Designing CBT in rural areas – common


    themes
    This complexity and
    dynanism is both a
    challenge and an
    opportunity

    Source: Tourism for a better future Queenstown Lakes


    Region
    ACROSS APEC REGION COMMUNITIES IN OUR RURAL AREAS SHARE CHALLENGES IN
    DEVELOPING TOURISM - 1

    VULNERABLE SOCIAL AND REVENUE LEAKAGE


    ECO-SYSTEMS CULTURAL
    DISRUPTION
    ACROSS THE APEC REGION COMMUNITIES IN OUR RURAL AREAS SHARE CHALLENGES IN
    DEVELOPING TOURISM - 2

    ACCESS TO UNREALISTIC UNREALISTIC


    FUNDING EXPECTATIONS (1) EXPECTATIONS (2)
    ACROSS THE APEC REGION COMMUNITIES IN OUR RURAL AREAS SHARE CHALLENGES IN
    DEVELOPING TOURISM - 3
    AND THE CHALLENGES EVERY TOURISM BUSINESS FACES ARE OFTEN MORE EXTREME IN
    RURAL COMMUNITIES
    Impacts of tourism on places

    Council for the Environment and Infrastructure (2019). Desirable Tourism: Capitalising on Opportunities in the Living Environment. The
    Best All communities are
    different and there is
    Practice no one standard
    approach to CBT
    or assessment and
    planning
    Good Source:https://www.apec.org/docs/default-source/Publicati
    ons/2010/6/Effective-Community-Based-Tourism-A-best-p

    Practice?
    ractice-manual-for-Peru-June-2010/210_twg_EffectiveCo
    mmunityBased-Tourism_PeruVersion.pdf
    APEC/STCRC framework still has much to recommend it

    Source:https://www.apec.org/docs/default-source/Publications/2010/6/Effective-Community-Based-Tourism-A-best-practice-manual-for-Peru-June-201
    0/210_twg_EffectiveCommunityBased-Tourism_PeruVersion.pdf
    We need to design CBT within our boundaries

    Sources: Doughnut Economics, Kate Raworth 2017, Penguin Random House


    https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-10-08/an-indigenous-maori-view-of-doughnut-economics/
    By asking ourselves 4 questions...

    Source: DEAL, doughnuteconomics.org


    Aiming for a net positive gain

    This is the
    approach
    Flinders Island
    in Australia is
    using
    a showcase
    example in
    Australia's
    THRIVE 2030
    strategy
    A simple 3-step framework
    In assessing what you have...

    Don't overlook the beauty of your


    everyday
    Common themes

    Community and
    Think holistically/
    place are at the
    in systems
    heart of its
    design

    Ensure the
    Don't rush it &
    environment is
    think long term
    right

    Know your why? Resource it


    properly
    Common themes

    Know yourself
    Resource it
    and your
    properly
    customer

    Measure
    Make it a source
    progress
    of pride

    Have a plan

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