examination of the advancement of tourism across Dominica reveals many of the problems common to tourism development throughout rural areas of the developing world. Firstly it is evident that it is often the attractiveness of tourism as an alternative source of employment to traditional agriculture combined with an idealistic and naïve perception of tourism as an economic panacea that have historically caused tourism to be enthusiastically embraced in rural communities. Such communities are however often unprepared to realise the potential that carefully co-ordinated and integrated sustainable tourism development can bring because of a lack of the appropriate business skills and experience to capitalise on opportunities.
It is also particularly evident that entrepreneurial skills are often limited and that this restricts the opportunities for the inhabitants of rural villages to benefit from tourism to their community. To gain the potential economic benefits usually associated with tourism it is important for tourists to spend extended periods within that community. This requires the provision of the appropriate infrastructure which is largely dictated by the prevailing needs of the increasingly sophisticated and demanding international tourist. Catering for such tastes in the highly competitive contemporary tourism market requires experience of the `needs' of the modern tourist together with capital investment beyond the ability of most rural communities. The lack of experience with tourism and the skills required to take advantage of tourism development at the community level is therefore compounded by the lack of access to the finance necessary to fund suitable projects of even a modest scale.
Conclusion
To conclude, it seems evident that the long term success, or in other words, the sustainability, of community based tourism projects in rural regions of the developing world may be severely threatened by a lack of resources, both in terms of finance and in the human skills and experience necessary to profitably direct and co-ordinate development. Participation in the development process in such locations will require that the community are sufficiently educated in the full range of both the negative impacts and the benefits associated with tourism development and are able to make fully informed decisions. Opportunities to participate will prove meaningless in cases where the local people are unlikely to be able to see real benefits from their participation. It is vital that the appropriate entrepreneurial training and financial support is made available for participation to be equitable and for it to challenge the damaging tourism development paradigm that has characterised so much tourism development in the developing world and has served merely to reinforce the developing worlds reliance on the developed.
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