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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| author | DIEDERIK DE BOER MEINE PIETER VAN DIJK LAURA TARIMO Researcher, Round Table Africa, Maastrich |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-2df7e897cc6f42b8b018b00907f3547e2025-02-02T14:28:45ZengUniversity of Algarve, ESGHT/CINTURSTourism & Management Studies2182-84662011-01-0177590BUSINESS-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS: THE LINK WITH SUSTAINABLE LOCAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN TANZANIA?DIEDERIK DE BOER0MEINE PIETER VAN DIJK1LAURA TARIMO Researcher, Round Table Africa, Maastrich2Maastricht School of Management, Maastricht, The NetherlandsMaastricht School of Management, Maastricht, The NetherlandsRound Table Africa, Maastricht, The NetherlandsThis 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 devhttps://tmstudies.net/index.php/ectms/article/view/336/555value chainsbusiness community partnershipstourismafricatanzania |
| spellingShingle | DIEDERIK DE BOER MEINE PIETER VAN DIJK LAURA TARIMO Researcher, Round Table Africa, Maastrich BUSINESS-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS: THE LINK WITH SUSTAINABLE LOCAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN TANZANIA? Tourism & Management Studies value chains business community partnerships tourism africa tanzania |
| title | BUSINESS-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS: THE LINK WITH SUSTAINABLE LOCAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN TANZANIA? |
| title_full | BUSINESS-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS: THE LINK WITH SUSTAINABLE LOCAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN TANZANIA? |
| title_fullStr | BUSINESS-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS: THE LINK WITH SUSTAINABLE LOCAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN TANZANIA? |
| title_full_unstemmed | BUSINESS-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS: THE LINK WITH SUSTAINABLE LOCAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN TANZANIA? |
| title_short | BUSINESS-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS: THE LINK WITH SUSTAINABLE LOCAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN TANZANIA? |
| title_sort | business community partnerships the link with sustainable local tourism development in tanzania |
| topic | value chains business community partnerships tourism africa tanzania |
| url | https://tmstudies.net/index.php/ectms/article/view/336/555 |
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