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LaPan, Chantell.

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Communitarian Micro-entrepreneurship and Gender in the Maya Touristscape.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Communitarian Micro-entrepreneurship and Gender in the Maya Touristscape./
Author:	LaPan, Chantell.
Description:	189 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-10A(E).
Subject:	Recreation. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3584332
ISBN:	9781303998430

Communitarian Micro-entrepreneurship and Gender in the Maya Touristscape.
LaPan, Chantell.

Communitarian Micro-entrepreneurship and Gender in the Maya Touristscape. - 189 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--North Carolina State University, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Tourism continues to grow and developing countries are receiving an increasingly larger share of tourist arrivals. Governments, tourism professionals and development experts have become optimistic toward tourism as a means of stimulating economic growth. However, many aspects of tourism are controversial and it remains unclear how host communities can best harness opportunities afforded by this industry. Experts have proposed new models (e.g., ecotourism, pro-poor tourism, people-first tourism) that position tourism as a mechanism that fosters poverty reduction and improved social, cultural and environmental conditions in host communities. While these models hold potential and research suggests that they can offer benefits, additional research is needed. Therefore, this study compares how culturally similar locations react to different forms of tourism development utilizing a mixed-methods comparative case study approach. Residents of San Juan La Laguna and San Pedro La Laguna, two neighboring towns on the shores of Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, have followed very different trajectories of tourism development despite their close proximity. The former has followed a laissez faire approach to tourism development, while the latter has adopted a communitarian tourism approach.

ISBN: 9781303998430Subjects--Topical Terms:

535376
Recreation.

Communitarian Micro-entrepreneurship and Gender in the Maya Touristscape.
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520 $a The two study communities are compared in regards to perceived benefits and drawbacks of tourism, changing gender norms, and communitarian micro-entrepreneurship models. Findings indicate that themes of power and altruism emerge in communitarian tourism development contexts, differentiating it from laissez faire approaches. Further, community collaboration guided by governmental and nongovernmental organizations can help maintain tourism benefits locally, while at the same time attenuating costs. Results indicate that there is changing consensus regarding men's and women's jobs in Lake Atitlan and work opportunities afforded by tourism are gradually eroding stable social norms about gender-appropriate work. Additionally, work opportunities afforded under communitarian tourism offer women increased levels of self-determination. The study provides theoretical insights and offers suggestions for policy implementations by tourism organizations and governments.
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