@article{Bassols Gardella_Bonilla_2022, title={COMMUNITY-BASED TOURISM AND DESTINATION COMPETITIVENESS: BRIDGING THE GAP}, volume={12}, url={https://www.uhu.es/publicaciones/ojs/index.php/et/article/view/5125}, DOI={10.33776/et.v12i1.5125}, abstractNote={<p>This article explores and discusses community-based tourism (CBT) and proposes a model intended to be exemplary for CBT cases throughout most of the world’s emerging countries.&nbsp; Further, this paper aims at establishing a connection between competitiveness and local CBT development, calling therefore the proposed model C-CBT. The authors try to establish the motivations to develop this type of tourism, as well as the drawbacks, grouping them into the C-CBT model. This model is then used as a comparative tool and applied to two territories in Colombia which have suffered from conflict in the last decades and have subsequently developed CBT.&nbsp; As for the field work in the two locales, it is based on interviews and observation carried out in the context of tourism development projects in both areas. The outcome is a clearer understanding of the factors that favor CBT initiatives and connects these with competitiveness frameworks, with the added interest that the presented cases come from a severely conflict-burdened coun<em>try.</em></p&gt;}, number={1}, journal={ENLIGHTENING TOURISM. A PATHMAKING JOURNAL}, author={Bassols Gardella, Narcís and Bonilla, Jorge}, year={2022}, month={Jun.}, pages={145-176} }