Barriers to community capacity building for tourism development in communities in Shiraz, Iran

• Main Author: Aref, Fariborz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2011
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13092/1/Barriers%20to%20community%20capacity%20building%20for%20tourism%20development%20in%20communities%20in%20Shiraz%2C%20Iran.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13092/; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09669582.2010.517314

This paper illustrates barriers to community capacity building (CCB) in tourism development, based on a questionnaire survey of 175 community leaders carried out in the city of Shiraz in Iran. It builds on the work of other researchers who found that in developing countries, a lack of CCB is an infl...