Community tourism is promoted as the version of travel that keeps money local.
In a , most of a visitor's payment leaves the region immediately.
It goes to an international booking platform, an imported food supplier and a distant owner.
A keeps a far larger share within a few kilometres.
The model has a well-documented failure pattern, however.
Success attracts , and builds the concrete version of the same thing.
Within a decade the village has thirty guesthouses, two of them owned locally.
Regulation can slow that, and enforcement rarely matches the incentive to build.
ownership has held up better in several documented cases.
Households share bookings by , so no single family captures the flow.
A share of every booking funds something visible: a road, a water system, a school roof.
That fund is what keeps when the visitors become tiring.
Tourism is rarely refused for economic reasons and often resented for social ones.