Towards Sustainable Ecotourism through Stakeholders’ Collaboration Strategies
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2012
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Abstract
This paper aims to assess the stakeholders’ strategies towards sustainable ecotourism, with
specific focus on networks and public private partnership strategies. A survey involving tourism
stakeholders (n=250) was conducted in the eastern and northern tourist circuits of Tanzania.
Through binary logit modeling, relationship between various variables was analyzed by looking
at the attributes associated with identified strategies. The study results show that despite the
number of the stakeholder’s networks available, the level of their involvement in the management
of ecotourism is still low. There is also statistical evidence showing that the extent of public
private partnership in ecotourism activities is not so much clear and formalized. This leads to
inadequate seriousness and sense of ownership among stakeholders especially community
members and jeopardizes the development of ecotourism in the country. It is therefore authors’
opinion that there is greater potential of sustaining ecotourism in Tanzania if all stakeholders
will be represented and collaborated via networks and public private partnerships.
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Stakeholder Collaboration, Strategy, Sustainable ecotourism
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Passape, L., Anderson, W. and Lindi, G., Towards Sustainable Ecotourism through Stakeholders’ Collaboration Strategies. In PROCEEDING OF THE EIGTH OPERATIONS RESEARCH SOCIETY FOR EASTERN AFRICA (ORSEA) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (p. 466).