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ABSTRACT
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
Contents
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION 14
Background 14
Statement of the problem 16
Research objectives 17
CHAPTER II. LITERATURE REVIEW 20
Precedent Studies of Tourism 24
Communities as the Key Stakeholders in Tourism Development 27
The Role of Local Communities in Tourism development 28
CHAPTER III. RESEARCH METHOD 31
Conceptual framework 31
Targeted area and population 33
Sampling techniques 33
Data Analysis 34
CHAPTER IV. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 37
The role of LGAs in promoting sustainable tourism development 38
Challenges facing LGAs in supporting sustainable tourism development 44
Ways of in promoting of sustainable tourism development 46
The significance of involving LGAs in promoting sustainable tourism development 50
Relationship between the theoretical perspective and the research findings 52
Relationship of the research variables 55
CHAPTER V. CONCLUSION 57
Summary 57
Recommendations 61
REFERENCES 63
APPENDICES : Questionnaires and Interview guidelines to the respondents 65
국문초록 72
〈Table 2.1〉 Doxey's Irritation Index(내용없음) 10
〈Table 3.1〉 Categories of the sample size 34
〈Table 4.2〉 Demographic information of the respondent 37
〈Table 4.3〉 The number of respondents visits tourism attraction 38
〈Table 4.4〉 Necessity of LGAs to participate in promoting sustainable tourism... 39
〈Table 4.5〉 LGA participation in the sustainable tourism development initiatives 40
〈Table 4.6〉 relationship of the research variables 55
〈Figure 3.1〉 Conceptual Framework 32
〈Figure 4.2〉 The way LGAs participates in the sustainable tourism development 40
〈Figure 4.3〉 Challenges existing in supporting sustainable tourism development 44
〈Figure 4.4〉 the best ways for the LGA to participate in Sustainable Tourism... 47
〈Figure 4.5〉 Significances of involving the LGA in promoting sustainable tourism... 50