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framework at a group or community level could help with strategic and tourism planning and ensure a focus on individual livelihood in connection with the larger planning agenda. At a destination level, the framework could help to identify strategic imperatives and provide a tool for use in debate and prioritization of resulting initiatives. The framework and supporting methodologies could be used to structure an evaluation of system evolution, context analysis, or case study. Finally, the STBL Framework could be used for evaluative and monitoring work, as a checklist, or scorecard of sorts, to evaluate outputs of an initiative or livelihood cycle. It is hoped that the insights illuminated through the STBL Framework will begin to move traditional tourism development research in new directions of understanding. The following questions are suggested to guide future research: • How can development, based on theory that differs from the prevalent theory and policy of country, overcome vulnerability? • Are the concepts presented in the Sustainable Tourism Based Livelihood Framework meaningful? Transferable? Measurable? • How do tourism-based livelihood patterns change over time? What are the trajectories of a tourism-based livelihood? How do meanings, vulnerabilities, assets, and success factors evolve? How does a legacy form and evolve? Acknowledgement – This research owes much to the sixteen individuals who agreed to be cases of interest. It is their story; their place; their history and culture; their livelihoods; their meanings; their successes; their vulnerabilities. They shared their lives, their dreams, their families, their homes, their products, their strengths and power, their weaknesses and fears, and their expertise. I thank them and hope that our words have added to theirs, rather than taken away. Bibliography Adato, M., & Meinzen-Dick, R., 2002. Assessing the impact of agricultural research on poverty using the sustainable livelihoods framework (FCND Discussion Paper 128; EPTD Discussion Paper 89). Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. Arellano, J.P., 1985. Social policies in Chile: An historical review. Journal of Latin American Studies, 17(2), 397-418. Ashley, C., 2000. The impacts of tourism on rural livelihoods: Namibia’s experience (Working Paper 128). London: Overseas Development Institute. Ashley, C., 2002. Methodology for pro-poor tourism case studies (PPT Working Paper No. 10). London: Overseas Development Institute. Ashley, C., Boyd, C., & Goodwin, H., 2000, (March). Pro-poor tourism: Putting poverty at the heart of the tourism agenda (No. 51). London: Overseas Development Institute.
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