Community participation in ecotourism destinations: Maleboho nature reserve

Abstract

The concept of "community participation" is regarded as a tool to assist in ecotourism and local economic development in rural communities. While the concept is arguably the best in achieving successful development objectives, there is often a missing link in its implementation process, and hence a failure to achieve the expected objective. This article, therefore, argues that community participation in Maleboho Nature Reserve cannot occur fully because of the misunderstanding among the role players as to how it should be facilitated and monitored by the government institutions. This article will, therefore, limit its relevance to the contextualisation of the concept community participation in ecotourism and the research findings at Maleboho Nature Reserve.