Do ecotourism sites enhance rural development in Ghana? Evidence from the Wechiau Community Hippo Sanctuary Project in the Upper West Region, Wa, Ghana

IF 2.4 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Journal of Ecotourism Pub Date : 2021-05-05 DOI:10.1080/14724049.2021.1922423

S. Z. Bonye, Gordon Yenglier Yiridomoh, F. Dayour

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Globally, ecotourism has become an important component of the tourism sector, partly because it serves as an essential source of livelihood for local communities. The Wechaiu Community Hippo Sanctuary Project (WCHSP) is one of the community-based ecotourism facilities in Ghana with the potential to accelerate development of the area. Studies have investigated the sustainability of the project and the levels of participation in the management of the project. However, these studies have seldom investigated the benefits and costs of the WCHSP to the surrounding communities. Using a concurrent mixed-method involving 206 survey respondents and 13 in-depth interviews, the study found that the development of the resource has led to improved social, economic, health and infrastructural needs of the people but also noted that the resource has indirectly introduced some levels of hardships to the communities due to loss of livelihoods. The policy and practical implication of the study are discussed.

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生态旅游景点能促进加纳的农村发展吗？来自加纳Wa上西部地区Wechiau社区河马保护区项目的证据

摘要在全球范围内，生态旅游已成为旅游业的重要组成部分，部分原因是它是当地社区的重要生计来源。Wechaiu社区河马保护区项目（WCHSP）是加纳以社区为基础的生态旅游设施之一，有可能加速该地区的发展。研究调查了项目的可持续性以及参与项目管理的程度。然而，这些研究很少调查WCHSP对周围社区的益处和成本。该研究采用了206名调查对象和13次深度访谈的混合方法，发现资源的开发改善了人们的社会、经济、健康和基础设施需求，但也指出，由于生计的丧失，资源间接给社区带来了一定程度的困难。讨论了这项研究的政策和实际意义。

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Journal of Ecotourism Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development

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6.40

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Ecotourism seeks to advance the field by examining the social, economic, and ecological aspects of ecotourism at a number of scales, and including regions from around the world. Journal of Ecotourism welcomes conceptual, theoretical, and empirical research, particularly where it contributes to the dissemination of new ideas and models of ecotourism planning, development, management, and good practice. While the focus of the journal rests on a type of tourism based principally on natural history - along with other associated features of the man-land nexus - it will consider papers which investigate ecotourism as part of a broader nature based tourism, as well as those works which compare or contrast ecotourism/ists with other forms of tourism/ists.