Comprehensive Participatory Approach as a Mechanism for Community Participation in Ecotourism.

Comprehensive Participatory Approach as a Mechanism for Community Participation in Ecotourism.

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This study was conducted at the Oribi Gorge Nature Reserve (OGNR) and surrounding communities (Murchison and Eshobeni) within the Ray Nkonyeni Local Municipality (RNM) under Ugu District, KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa The study asserts that comprehensive participatory approach (CPA) could be an effective strategy for enhancing community participation in ecotourism development processes and can be explained within the expert-assisted and expert-initiated approaches.The study further asserts that both scientific and indigenous knowledge (IK) are important for facilitating comprehensive participation in ecotourism development process, especially Horse Turnout Boots in rural areas.Importantly, while IK may be insufficient unto itself, nor is expert knowledge lacking indigenous perspective to underpin it, they complement each other and both are needed to enhance participatory ecotourism development processes.

The study aimed to find out how CPA can be used as a mechanism for community participation in ecotourism development processes at the OGNR and the surrounding communities.The Rugby - Clothing - Shorts study adopted an exploratory design and mixed methods approach during collection, analysis and interpretation of data.The data were interpreted to make meanings of the implicit responses against the research question.

The study found that community members of the study area do not actively participate in ecotourism activities.The study concludes that a CPA needs to be incorporated in the ecotourism development activities of the study area.