Developing Tourism Products and new Partnerships through Participative Action Research in Rural Cameroon

Schmitz, Serge; Lekane Tsoubgou, Dieudonné

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Developing Tourism Products and new Partnerships through Participative Action Research in Rural Cameroon

Schmitz, Serge; Lekane Tsoubgou, Dieudonné

2016 • In Geographical Research, 54 (2), p. 143-152

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Toursim; Network; Central Africa; Action research; Rural development; Microcredit; West Cameroon Chiefdoms; Bamileke

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[en] The paper explores possible synergies between microfinance institutions and small and medium medium tourism businesses in the West Cameron Chiefdooms. Based on a research action the authors emphasise the obstacles to the formation of partnership and describe how the researchers facilitated networking.
[fr] L'article explore les synergies possibles entre les institutions de microfinance et les petites et moyennes entreprises touristiques dans les Chefferies de l'Ouest du Cameroun. Basé sur une recherche action, les auteurs pointent les obstacles à la formation de partenariat et décrivent comment ils ont pu faciliter la mise en place d'un réseaux d'acteurs auteur de la destination touristique.

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Laplec
Lepur : Centre de Recherche sur la Ville, le Territoire et le Milieu rural - ULiège

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Human geography & demography

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Schmitz, Serge ; Université de Liège > Département de géographie > Service de géographie rurale (LAPLEC)

Lekane Tsoubgou, Dieudonné; Université de Liège - ULiège > Géographie > Laplec

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English

Title :

Developing Tourism Products and new Partnerships through Participative Action Research in Rural Cameroon

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May 2016

Journal title :

Geographical Research

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1745-5863

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1745-5871

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Blackwell Publishing, Australia

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143-152

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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1745-5871.12174/abstract

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Micro-finance et développement du tourisme rural dans les chefferies de l'Ouest du Cameroun

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EU-COFUND “Be International PostDoc”

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