1、2400 英文单词， 13500 英文字符 ， 中文 4050 字 文献出处： Prabhakaran S, Nair V, Ramachandran S. Community Participation in Rural Tourism: Towards a Conceptual Framework J. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014, 144(144):290-295. Community participation in rural tourism: Towards a conceptual framework Sudes
2、h Prabhakaran, Vikneswaran Nair, Sridar Ramachandran Abstract This study presents a discussion of the community participation construct, within a rural tourism perspective. The study also reviews the methodological characteristics of community participations theory and measurement and its associatio
3、n to rural tourism environment. The extant literature is revisited to establish taxonomy of the methodological procedures for measuring community participation from the context of rural tourism. Hence, proposing a comprehensive conceptual framework featuring its multifaceted, intertwined and progres
4、sive nature for community participation in a rural tourism environment. Keywords: Community Participation; Rural Tourism; Conceptual Framework 1. Introduction Studies conducted by scholars have explained that many rural communities have diversified their local economy to tourism to improve their liv
5、elihood (Briedenhann & Wickens, 2004; Mair, 2006). In developing or launching a tourism industry, communities rummage to change themselves from an economy of product manufacturing to a site of services (Gill, 1997). Tourism has the prospective to mark a positive economic influence, yet the achieveme
6、nt of this industry is not a given and the results are not constantly optimistic. Tourism can be manipulative and in cultural terms, socially, and environmentally detrimental and can be unsuccessful to deliver an anticipated economic lift (Sharpley, 2002). Communities can play a part in the decision-making practice (Zhao and Ritchie, 2007; Li, 2005; Li, 2004; Tosun, 2000; Chok and Macbeth, 2007). One of the main fundamental ideologies of pro-poor tourism evidently states that local communiti
