Komarindi ecotours : development of community ecotourism on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

Abstract

A programme of community-based ecotourism development was implemented in the Komarindi Conservation Area (KCA) over a period of eighteen months from late 1997 to early 1999. Limited ecotourism operations began in October 1998, with the launch of Komarindi Ecotours. However, ethnic unrest on Guadalcanal led to the KCA communities closing the ecotourism operation in mid 1999, before implementation of the ecotourism development programme was completed.