Furthermore, community-managed tourism or people‟s participation in ecotourism still
needs to be strengthened and guided, particularly through facilitating human resource
development related to tourism service provision and natural resource management. The
problem of the lack of qualified, registered and knowledgeable guides, referred to
earlier, still needs to be seriously tackled. A critical lacuna in this area is that there is no
exchange of relevant knowledge and experiences concerning ecotourism management
among concerned parties, nor is the wealth of local knowledge, which is highly relevant
in this context, used to further ecotourism policy goals and objectives.