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Tourism is often seen as a tool for poverty alleviation and community development. This article highlights community-based tourism as a possible strategy for the development of poor communities. It further investigates how specific cultural contexts––in this case, that of rural Mpondoland, South Africa––can contribute to positive community-based tourism development outcomes. In this sense, the local culture is not seen as a tourist attraction but as a resource on which community-based tourism development can be built. The article locates community-based tourism within a more general strategy of diversifying rural livelihoods. Poor households in rural areas meet their needs through a combination of livelihood strategies and community-based tourism is seen as an additional means to meet household needs. In addition, local culture becomes a tourism resource using indigenous foods, arts, and crafts as tourism attractions. Food is one example of a local cultural resource that has the potential to facilitate a number of community benefits.

Purpose/main point of the study: The purpose of this study was to investigate what kinds of cultural contexts in development lead to community benefits resulting from tourism.

Unclear: “General strategy of diversifying rural livelihoods”: The article says it “locates community-based tourism within” this variable, but it is unclear what the relationship is between the two.