Using Tourism as a Mechanism to Reduce Poaching and Hunting: A Case Study of the Tidong Community, Sabah
Advances in Hospitality and Leisure
ISBN: 978-1-78635-616-1, eISBN: 978-1-78635-615-4
Publication date: 9 December 2016
Abstract
In Sabah, Malaysia, illegal hunting has increased in recent years putting considerable pressure on large mammal populations. The causes for this phenomenon lie in increasing rural poverty, ineffective policies to regulate hunting, as well as a ready market for many wildlife products in the Chinese medicine markets. This paper examines how Community-Based Ecotourism has some potential to be used as a tool to reducing poaching using the Tidong community in Sabah as a case study. The key finding is that successful conservation outcomes for Community-Based Ecotourism projects are only sustainable over the long run if projects are structured to ensure that the local community is able to continue effective management once sponsoring organizations hand over control and that revenue from tourism does not decline. If tourist revenue declines communities may be forced to revert to previous practices reversing any initial conservation gains.
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Acknowledgments
This study was financially supported by Universiti Malaysia Sabah through Skim Bantuan Penyelidikkan Universiti Malaysia Sabah and partially funded by SOS Rhino (Borneo) Bhd., presently known as Borneo Rhino Alliances (BORA). We are grateful to the people of Tidong community and staff of BORA for their wonderful hospitality during this study.
Citation
Saikim, F.H., Prideaux, B., Mohamed, M. and Hamzah, Z. (2016), "Using Tourism as a Mechanism to Reduce Poaching and Hunting: A Case Study of the Tidong Community, Sabah", Advances in Hospitality and Leisure (Advances in Hospitality and Leisure, Vol. 12), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 119-144. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1745-354220160000012010
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