BUSINESS-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS: THE LINK WITH SUSTAINABLE LOCAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN TANZANIA?
This paper investigates whether BusinessCommunity Partnerships (BCP) can facilitate local private sector development in Africa. This study offers a new approach to such partnerships by looking at them from a local private sector development perspective using value chain analysis. Focusing on Ta...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Algarve, ESGHT/CINTURS
2011-01-01
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| Series: | Tourism & Management Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://tmstudies.net/index.php/ectms/article/view/336/555 |
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| Summary: | This paper investigates whether BusinessCommunity Partnerships (BCP) can facilitate local
private sector development in Africa. This study
offers a new approach to such partnerships by
looking at them from a local private sector
development perspective using value chain analysis.
Focusing on Tanzania, this paper analyses nine
tourism business-community partnership cases
including three NGO-initiated partnerships, three
business-initiated partnerships and three cases in
which there was no explicit partnership between the
business and the community. Five effects of
tourism development are assessed by such
partnerships, namely access to capital, access to
skills/ knowledge, access to markets, access to
infrastructure and access to land. Overall, business
initiated Business–Community Partnerships
contributed positively to access of markets and
access to infrastructure. The NGO-initiated
partnerships contribute positively to the access of
land and improved in certain cases the access to
infrastructure and markets. However, appropriate
transfer of entrepreneurship knowledge and access
to capital remains very inadequate. This study offers
a new approach by looking at partnerships from a
local private sector dev |
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| ISSN: | 2182-8466 |