Tourism, Housing and Community Participation

This book 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 book investigates how community participation in housing influences their capacity to participate in the sustainability of tourism. This book 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 in tourism regions.

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Dr Delgado is a recipient of the Australia Multicultural Interaction Institute s Social Research Innovation Award in 2012 and the Melbourne International Research Scholarship in 2010. Her research journey has inspired her to establish Community Homestay Tourism Network, the first international collaboration of community homestay tourism providers.