Shoeb-Ur-Rahman, M.Simmons, David G.Shone, Michael C.Ratna, Nazmun N.Lee, C.Filep, S.Albrecht, J. N.Coetzee, W. J. L.2018-06-2820179780473388195https://hdl.handle.net/10182/9836The literature on tourism in developing countries indicates that an imbalance of power, coupled with conflicts about common resources, inhibit ‘community involvement’ in the decision-making processes. Simultaneously, such a community perspective is widely held as a pre-requisite to sustainable tourism development. A new perspective is emerging through application of sustainable livelihood frameworks whereby the role of different forms of capital, be they financial, built, human, natural, social, and institutional, are a specific lens. This now needs to be analysed to see how community wellbeing outcomes can be enhanced via the planning or implementation of sustainable tourism development. One means of addressing this gap, as well as incorporating community viewpoints, may be through co-management frameworks which are designed to act as both mediating and decision-making tools. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework that can address this gap. In the near future, the proposed framework will be tested on field.438-448 (11)en© CAUTHEsustainable tourism developmentcommunity involvementco-managementsustainability capitalscommunity wellbeingconceptual frameworkConference Contribution - published