COMMUNITY-BASED TOURISM AND DESTINATION COMPETITIVENESS: BRIDGING THE GAP

This article explores and discusses community-based tourism (CBT) proposes a model intended to be exemplary for CBT cases throughout most of the world’s emerging countries. Further, this paper aims at establishing connection between competitiveness local development, calling therefore proposed C-CBT. The authors try establish motivations develop type tourism, as well drawbacks, grouping them into C-CBT model. is then used comparative tool applied two territories in Colombia which have suffered from conflict last decades subsequently developed CBT. As field work locales, it based on interviews observation carried out context development projects both areas. outcome clearer understanding factors that favor initiatives connects these with frameworks, added interest presented come severely conflict-burdened country.