Tourism, housing and community participation: their nexus in Gawad Kalinga communities of the Philippines
| العنوان: | Tourism, housing and community participation: their nexus in Gawad Kalinga communities of the Philippines |
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| المؤلفون: | DELGADO, ROWENA |
| المصدر: | IndraStra Global. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | participatory housing, service learning, self-help housing, homestay, Philippines, bayanihan, volunteer tourism, Gawad Kalinga, sustainable tourism, community participation, community-based tourism |
| الوصف: | © 2014 Dr. Rowena Delgado This thesis explores the relationship between tourism and housing in the development of poor communities in the Philippines, arguing that tourism can be made more sustainable when a participatory approach to housing delivery is integrated in plans and policies for tourism development. Although the centrality of community participation in the sustainability of tourism has been established in existing research, participatory housing processes were not overtly incorporated as an essential component in tourism. Literature on sustainable tourism lacks an exploration of participatory housing processes in addressing problems that develop from mass tourism such as social displacement and alienation. Utilising social capital as theoretical framework, this thesis investigates how community participation in housing influences their capacity to participate in the sustainability of tourism. To demonstrate the relationship between participatory housing and sustainable tourism with particular focus on poor communities located in tourism regions, a case study on the bayanihan approach to housing provision by the Gawad Kalinga Community Development (GK) organisation in the Philippines was undertaken. Bayanihan, which is a traditional practice of participation motivated by philanthropy and nationalism, has been employed by GK in the simultaneous building of new communities and also the development of tourism. The case study employed four case communities located within the recently developing tourist region of Camarines Sur, Philippines: The GK Character Village, the GK Pona Village, Mambulo Nuevo Village, and the Sierra Homes Village. Based on grounded theory and correlation analysis, the case study shows an uneven transfer of knowledge and practice of bayanihan which resulted in different levels of participation in the convergence of housing and tourism, namely, indifference, assimilation, adoption and integration. Moreover, the central role of the GK organisation in the accumulation of social capital through bayanihan has translated to diverse social and physical outcomes. This thesis shows that examining community participation and its influence in generating social capital provides a platform for understanding the relationship between tourism development and housing provision and provides a basis for divergent social and physical outcomes in communities located in tourism regions. It also highlights that transferring local knowledge of bayanihan, most notably in the implementation of pro-poor tourism strategies needs to consider the following critical factors that are often overlooked: leadership and organisation, multi-sector collaboration, sweat equity, project delivery, community identity, and training and education. Furthermore, the failure to embed participatory housing provision in research, policy and practices of sustainable tourism results in the alienation of resident communities from tourism development, instead of their inclusion. |
| تدمد: | 2381-3652 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=issn23813652::e5ba0b92b43477d6042695aeea88ffb4 http://hdl.handle.net/11343/52748 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.issn23813652..e5ba0b92b43477d6042695aeea88ffb4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 23813652 |
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