Determinants of Household Participation in Tourism Activities in Nearby Kebeles of Lalibela Town, Ethiopia
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2019-05
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Addis Ababa University
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his particular research examines the determinants of household participation in tourism
activity in nearby kebeles of lalibela town in rural areas of north Ethiopia. To accomplish this,
the research used household survey data from the four purposively selected nearby lalibela rural
kebeles with230 household respondents. The methodologies employed during the collection of
the data were household survey, interview, observation, documentary review with the sample
size of 230 respondent households so as to gather the necessary data for the study. A simple
random sampling procedure was employed to select 230 households of which 36% of them are
female–headed households. Analytical tools used were both descriptive statistics and
econometric model. In descriptive statistics from the respondent households, it would conclude
with high or low level of participation between households, Level of participation in tourism
activities is closely allied with the number of frequency of community participation in tourism
activities. Therefore, the community participation level of index result showed that, 42% of the
respondent household heads have highly participated with different tourism activities, while the
remaining 58% of households have lower participation. In econometric model, the quantitative
data gathered from these techniques are analyzed and interpreted using Logit Regression in
order to show the determinants of households that decide on participation in tourism. Thus, a
total of ten explanatory variables were included in the empirical model of which seven were
significant. These variables include sex, social status, marital status; occupation, farm sizes,
total household income and credit were significant factors of households’ participation of
tourism activities. The finding of the study revealed that household participation in tourism
activity should be given more focus and attention by policy makers in effort to increase tourism
participation status of rural households. The rural households’ tourism participation is a vital
step in rural household meant that tourism provide employment opportunity, income and local
people encourage a variety of tourism activities to meet their needs .Therefore the researcher
recommends that the governments’ organizations shall provide trainings, advice and credit
facilities to the local communities that can participate in tourism business activities
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Local Community participation, tourism Activities, rural household, binary logistic regression Mode