BUSINESS-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS: THE LINK WITH SUSTAINABLE LOCAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN TANZANIA?

Authors

  • Diederik De Boer Round Table Africa, Maastricht School of Management, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  • Meine Pieter Van Dijk Maastricht School of Management, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  • Laura Tarimo Round Table Africa, Maastricht, The Nederlands

Keywords:

Value Chains, Business Community Partnerships, Tourism, Africa, Tanzania

Abstract

This paper investigates whether Business-Community Partnerships (BCP) can facilitate local private sector development in Africa. This study offers a new approach to such partnerships by looking at them from a local private sector development perspective using value chain analysis. Focusing on Tanzania, this paper analyses nine tourism business-community partnership cases including three NGO-initiated partnerships, three business-initiated partnerships and three cases in which there was no explicit partnership between the business and the community. Five effects of tourism development are assessed by such partnerships, namely access to capital, access to skills/ knowledge, access to markets, access to infrastructure and access to land. Overall, business initiated Business–Community Partnerships contributed positively to access of markets and access to infrastructure. The NGO-initiated partnerships contribute positively to the access of land and improved in certain cases the access to infrastructure and markets. However, appropriate transfer of entrepreneurship knowledge and access to capital remains very inadequate. This study offers a new approach by looking at partnerships from a local private sector development perspective, using value chain analysis.

Author Biographies

  • Diederik De Boer, Round Table Africa, Maastricht School of Management, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    MSC Head of the Sustainable Development Centre and Director
  • Meine Pieter Van Dijk, Maastricht School of Management, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    PhD, Professor
  • Laura Tarimo, Round Table Africa, Maastricht, The Nederlands
    Researcher

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Published

22.02.2012

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Section

Tourism/Hospitality: Research Papers

How to Cite

De Boer, D., Van Dijk, M. P., & Tarimo, L. (2012). BUSINESS-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS: THE LINK WITH SUSTAINABLE LOCAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN TANZANIA?. Tourism & Management Studies, 7, 75-90. https://tmstudies.net/index.php/ectms/article/view/336