Community-Based Tourism in Post-Disaster Contexts: Recovery from 2016 Cyclone Winston in Fiji
The Tourism–Disaster–Conflict Nexus
ISBN: 978-1-78743-100-3, eISBN: 978-1-78743-099-0
Publication date: 12 November 2018
Abstract
In critical tourism studies, tourism has often been accused as a detrimental activity for local communities. The objective of this chapter is to highlight that there is another way of understanding tourism, one that responds to a more emancipating approach. The authors argue that from a post-structuralist perspective certain types of ‘responsible tourism’ can exhibit characteristics that promote local economic sustainability and greater gender equality as well as contribute to disaster risk reduction and recovery. Through a review of the literature and empirical fieldwork in the Fiji Islands, the authors examine the capacity of community-based tourism (CBT) to serve as a tool for locally led development and effective disaster risk reduction and recovery. The authors also explore whether CBT can open new spaces for women’s perspectives to be included in governance of local development and disaster risk management, challenging the gendered power structures within the community.
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Acknowledgements
This research was made possible by a Faculty of Arts Research Development Fund, The University of Auckland. We thank all research participants and local authorities in Fiji for their hospitality and support in conducting the fieldwork.
Citation
Carrizosa, A.A. and Neef, A. (2018), "Community-Based Tourism in Post-Disaster Contexts: Recovery from 2016 Cyclone Winston in Fiji", Neef, A. and Grayman, J.H. (Ed.) The Tourism–Disaster–Conflict Nexus (Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management, Vol. 19), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 67-85. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-726220180000019004
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