Investigating Gaps in Sustainable Community Tourism: A Case Study of Local Communities in the Vicinity of Khon Kaen Zoo

Abstract

This article describes the impacts of tourism on local communities and the obstacles to sustainable community tourism planning and development. The study found that different areas show different impacts of tourism and also different levels of participation in tourism planning and development. For an area be a destination of sustainable community tourism, various stakeholders, especially local participants, must be involved in tourism planning and development from the early to the final stages.