The aim of this paper is to present an analysis of the state of community-based tourism in a specific geographical area, the island of Fogo in Cape Verde. This island has not yet structured tourism development on the basis of mass tourism as has happened in the other islands of Cape Verde. The island is reacting to increasingly significant flows of tourists who visit the island by way of small tourism companies managed by the community itself. In this paper, following on from this introduction, the literature on community-based tourism is briefly summarised in part two. In the third section, the geographical area which is the subject of this study is described. The methodology used is presented in part four and, finally, in part five the main results are presented and discussed.