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• owever, there is a dearth of material that presents the views or responses of community members towards working in tourism, participating in decision-making and having a voice within the development process once a decision to participate in tourism has actively been taken.
• The issue of appropriate participation in policy decision-making is complex and culturally- specific norms and societal values need to be taken into account. Only by gaining the perspectives of actors based within specific geographical case study areas can these issues be explored
• Blackstock (2005) shares Cheong and Miller's (2000: 381) observations of the relevance of wider structural inequalities in her observation that 'having the least control can translate into having the least involvement'

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