TY - JOUR
T1 - Tourism and community well-being
T2 - The case of the Maasai in Tanzania
AU - Buzinde, Christine N.
AU - Kalavar, Jyotsna M.
AU - Melubo, Kokel
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by two grants from the Children, Youth, and Family Consortium (CYFC) at Penn State University . The authors would like to thank the residents of Oltukai and Esilalei villages in Tanzania for working with us. We also thank Dr. Sylvester Osagie (Penn State), Josephine Simon (African Wildlife Foundation), Dr. Agnes Mwasumbi, Dassa at Tanzania Conservation Resource Centre (CRC), and Victor Kakengi at TAWIRI for assisting us with this study.
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - The World Tourism Organization (WTO) proposes tourism as a tool through which the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can be accomplished yet the goals have been criticized for their top-down conceptualization of well-being. Critics further argue that long-term improvements in the livability of indigenous communities require the MDGs to account for indigenous interpretations of well-being and development. This inquiry adopts a bottom-up approach to examine indigenous conceptions of well-being and to understand how tourism influences indigenous experiences of well-being. Informed by the body of work on community well-being, this study focuses on two Maasai communities, Esilalei and Oltukai, in Tanzania. The findings highlight the need for dialogue between the externally defined universal measures (i.e., MDGs) and localized conceptions of well-being.
AB - The World Tourism Organization (WTO) proposes tourism as a tool through which the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can be accomplished yet the goals have been criticized for their top-down conceptualization of well-being. Critics further argue that long-term improvements in the livability of indigenous communities require the MDGs to account for indigenous interpretations of well-being and development. This inquiry adopts a bottom-up approach to examine indigenous conceptions of well-being and to understand how tourism influences indigenous experiences of well-being. Informed by the body of work on community well-being, this study focuses on two Maasai communities, Esilalei and Oltukai, in Tanzania. The findings highlight the need for dialogue between the externally defined universal measures (i.e., MDGs) and localized conceptions of well-being.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.annals.2013.08.010
DO - 10.1016/j.annals.2013.08.010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84891804163
SN - 0160-7383
VL - 44
SP - 20
EP - 35
JO - Annals of Tourism Research
JF - Annals of Tourism Research
IS - 1
ER -