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4.2 Enablers for Community sustainability and resilience
Resilience in the tourism sector also depends, at the construction for education/interpretation and re-
same time, on community sustainability. Some of the source access; programmes for innovative tourism
enablers of community sustainability and resilience developments and marketing; Improving living con-
are displayed in Figure 9. A total of 12 indicators were ditions and employment; Level of locals’ traditional
explored and are disaggregated by sex here. For both environmental knowledge; and Strength of traditional
females and males, the following are the top five in- livelihoods, especially natural resource-based. Nev-
dicators that significantly would enable community ertheless, females were more likely to indicate a very
sustainability and resilience: Level of infrastructure significant impact compared to males.
Figure 9: Enablers of Community Sustainability and Resilience
Support for elderly and underprivileged population
Participation of locals and tourists in environmental …
Programme for conserving and teaching cultural traditions
Effective environmental conservation, protection and …
Innovative uses of traditional knowledge by locals
Local government budgeting
Level of traditional practices and uses of resources by locals
Strength of traditional livelihoods, expecially natural …
Level of locals’ traditional environmental knowledge
Improving living conditions and employment
Programmes for innovative tourism developments and …
Level of infrastructure construction for …
0 20 40 60 80 100
■ 1 – not at all ■ 2 – slight impact ■ 3 – moderate impact ■ 4 – signicant impact ■ 5 – very signicant impact
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