Sustainable community based tourism: impact, challenges and opportunities (the case of Huai Nam Guen Village, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand)

This article provides a single-case research study of Huai Nam Guen village in Chiang Rai province, Thailand. Through identifying the important facilitators and possible inhibitors to CBT, this research reveals that CBT operations can conform to the principles of sustainable tourism through participative roles of the community and the different relevant stakeholders, identity creation and maintenance, exploiting the economic, socio-cultural and ecological resources, continuous learning, and taking land ownership in the systematic design of the community landscape and agricultural best practices. Clearly, to influence CBT operations towards sustainability, it is important to influence the community at the behavioural level. In this sense, this research contributes to the fragmented knowledge and publications of CBT in the context of behavioural emphasis.

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In This Issue: Quality in Mixed Methods Research, Systematic Mixed Studies Reviews, Mixed Methods Single Case Research, Community-Based Participatory Research, and Data Integration and Consolidation

Journal of Mixed Methods Research ◽

10.1177/1558689819875833 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 411-413 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

José F. Molina-Azorin ◽

Michael D. Fetters

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Data Integration ◽

Participatory Research ◽

Mixed Methods Research ◽

Single Case ◽

Community Based Participatory Research ◽

Research Community ◽

Community Based ◽

Case Research ◽

Single Case Research

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Community-Based Arts and Participatory Act: Inclusive Knowledge as Intangible Culture Heritage Empowerment (ICHE)

International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering - Special Issue ◽

10.35940/ijitee.l1111.10812s219 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (12S2) ◽

pp. 630-637

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Visual Art ◽

Single Case ◽

Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽

Participatory Action ◽

Community Based ◽

Case Research ◽

Community Based Art ◽

Culture Heritage ◽

Single Case Research

Intangible Culture Heritage (ICH) exists through collectively cultured actions and is identified individually, in groups and large divisions or communities. The weight of modernization that necessitates reform in all facets of life has threatened the practice and compromised the tradition of cultural comprising the intangible cultural heritage of current society. This study aspires to examine the mechanism of activities based on ICH in a community-based art project Lendu International Art Camp (LIAC). The qualitative study in the mode of this single case research concerned observation, fieldwork and document analysis. The study discovered that Intangible Culture Heritage Empowerment (ICHE) appeared through the value of inclusive knowledge/education built through three groups of activity classifications encompassing; Visual Art Expression, Health & Wellbeing and Heritage & Local Culture. This usefulness of inclusive knowledge/education has a diversity of styles of learning pedagogy such as collaborative, collective, informal and experiential learning that is established from the participatory action of the participants. The contributions of this research are that community-based art bears the potential to be a substantial contributor to reviving the cultural heritage of the community by way of comprehensive, inclusive knowledge.

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