people (Hatton 2001). Probably one of the most significant aspects of community based tourism is that it has the capacity to empower local and indigenous communities through community participation in tourism planning and management and through ownership of tourism infrastructure, as well as interpretation of visitors (WTTC and IHRA 1999). Host communities should be empowered to choose the type and the pace of tourism development, if at all they choose tourism, and set guidelines for tourism if they so wish (Lindberg 1999). More specifically, land ownership should be reviewed where possible, and transferred to local communities (UNCSD 1999b).