Abstract
Community-based Tourism (CBT) is a kind of ecotourism as a participatory approach to development. The purpose of this study is to consider the relationship between sustainable tourism and communities as a case of CBT in Tanzania. Tourism in Tanzania relies mainly on the wild life through "Safari" tours held in and around national parks, but new style of tourism is emerging in rural community areas in recent years. At first this style of tourism was operated jointly by the local people in cooperation with NGO and now is managed by the local people without the support of NGO. This paper is intended to show the present state of CBT called "Cultural Tourism Programme" in Tanzania and to investigate the possibility of tourism development to contribute to the local communities and the issues related to implementation of the CBT at present.
