| Summary: | Tourism is a relevant growing industry worldwide and is often regarded as an important development
tool. The cruise tourism sector is also an important segment of the tourism industry and is viewed as
having positive and negative features. Community-based tourism (CBT) is a relatively new type of
tourism and, despite its possible problems and limitations, it has been known to foster community
development. In view of the aforementioned issues as a contextual background this paper aims to
explore possible collaboration opportunities between cruise tourism and CBT. The paper focuses on a
literature review on cruise tourism and CBT. It then explores the possible relationship between the
two forms of tourism. A relationship and linkages between cruise tourism and community-based
tourism is subsequently proposed. The value of both cruise tourism and CBT on the local
disadvantaged section of the population is suggested. Some specific references to the South African
context will be proposed in the paper.
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