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Local conflict/
lack of
cooperation,
3.59%
Poor roads, 3.19%
Finance/Budget,
11.95%
Other, 14.34%
Accessibility,
89.64%
Ownership issues,
15.14%
Skills, 39.04%
Seasonality,
42.63%
Market access,
68.53%
Communications,
54.58%
Advertising,
67.33%
Motivation,
55.38%
Figure 13.3
Limitations to tourism enterprise
accessibility (90.8 per cent) followed by market access (71.6 per cent) (Figure
13.3). This has implications for the planning of new CBTEs in the future (i.e. to
ensure that their location in relation to source markets and transport infrastruc-
ture is commercially viable) and also regarding training and capacity building to
improve linkages between existing enterprises and the market.
Sustainable development
Most of the enterprise managers indicated that they knew what sustainable
tourism was (74.3 per cent), and a similar proportion believed they were practis-
ing sustainable tourism (74.8 per cent). A third of CBTEs' statements or policies
on sustainable tourism mentioned conservation or sustainable resource use (33.0
per cent), and a fifth mentioned community benefits and employment (20.6 per
cent). Many others indicated the importance of community development and
cultural conservation and celebration (11.5 per cent). Some of the CBTE's defini-
tions provided were related to guest satisfaction (17.9 per cent), service quality
and commercial viability, rather than 'triple bottom line' sustainable tourism (6.0
per cent). The type of sustainable tourism activities reflected their understanding
of sustainable tourism, and concerned conservation or sustainable resource use
(34.9 per cent) and community benefits or employment (27.0 per cent).
Enterprises also mentioned education and training (18.8 per cent), community
development (14.2 per cent) and cultural conservation and celebration (11.5 per
cent) (Table 13.4).
Some notable sustainability statements by the enterprises include the follow-
ing:
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