Factors Affecting Community-based Tourism Development: Insights from a Systematic Review

Community-based tourism brings various benefits for local communities and thus is considered as important focus in tourism development strategy in many nations and locals around the world. A lot of research efforts have been paid to this emerging topic which aim to identify factors affecting community-based development. The purpose of this paper is to review the related literature and to provide comprehensive insights about such influential factors of community-based tourism development. The present paper employs reputable databases of scientific publication to find the papers which discuss community-based tourism and reviews the papers which fully meet our selection criteria. We review and discuss the eligible scientific papers and provide some implications. First, community-based tourism has been emerging as central focus in the pertinent literature of tourism and attracts scholarly efforts to discuss feasible means for enhancing community-based tourism development. Second, majority of the reviewed papers argue community-based tourism development issues in developing countries. Third, it seems that qualitative research methodology approach with interview or case study analysis have been widely applied in the papers related to community-based tourism. Future studies can use our paper as reference to further exploring factors affecting community-based tourism.