Community Based Ecotourism D evelopment: The Case of Guassa in North Shewa, Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Senbeta, Feyera (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kidane, Abraham | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-03T14:43:28Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-18T09:56:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-10-03T14:43:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-18T09:56:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The study aims at assessing the prospect of community based ecotourism development in and around the Guassa Community Conservation Area and the establishment of alternative source of livelihood for local people. The Guassa area and its surrounding are endowed with natural, cultural, historical and religious tourism resources. The study is descriptive in its design and used both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Interview and Questionnaire were used as an instrument for data gathering. Interview was undertaken with government officials, NGO official and expert and, with three local community representatives. The three Kebeles of Guassa were chosen using purposive sampling because of the fact that they are immediate neighbor to GCCA and hence, 150 questionnaires were administered proportionally to the household numbers in each kebeles. However, out of the distributed questionnaires only 125 questionnaires were valid and ready to be used for analysis. The perspectives of the MoCT, EWCA and some Tour Operation agencies were uncovered through questionnaires, for each of them five questionnaire were administered and all the returned were used in the analysis. Frequency, percentage, average mean, One Way-ANOVA and independent t-test are used to analyze quantitative data. The findings revealed that food insecurity is commonplace in the study area. The local people reliance over the conservation area's resources has been increasing and the area size is also dwindling from time to time. On the other hand, the local people Level of awareness about CBET are low. In addition, the local capacity in relation with the conservation and CBET development is also low even though there is inadequate training offered by the government and NGOs. In general, tourism is not yet considered as an alternative source of income. In addition, the challenges for CBET development apart from low awareness level about CEET and low capacity, poor infrastructure, and poor tourism facilities were also identified as challenges in the study area. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/12453 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Community Based Ecotourism (CBET), alternative livelihood and Guassa Community Conservation Area (GCCA) | en_US |
| dc.subject | en_US | |
| dc.subject | en_US | |
| dc.subject | en_US | |
| dc.title | Community Based Ecotourism D evelopment: The Case of Guassa in North Shewa, Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |