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Sustainability 2010, 2, 1909-1923; doi:10.3390/su2071909 OPEN ACCESS sustainability ISSN 2071-1050 /journal/sustainability Article Planning for Community Based Tourism in a Remote Location Sharon Harwood Coffey Environments, Level 1 2-3 Greenhill Rd, Wayville, South Australia 5034, Australia; E-Mail: harwood@.au; Tel.: +61-872-213-500; Fax: +61-881-721-968. Received: 26 May 2010; in revised form: 6 June 2010 / Accepted: 16 June 2010 / Published: 1 July 2010 Abstract: Remote areas are difficult to access, tend to lack critical infrastructure, are highly susceptible to shocks in the marketplace, and are perceived by industry to possess limited development opportunities. Accordingly a community orientated and territorial approach to development planning in a remote area will be more successful than a top down industry based approach [1]. Given the limitations of being remote, the case study community examined in this research manages and sustains a bird watching tourism product within a global market place. This paper examines how a remotely located community in the Arfak Mountains of West Papua overcomes these difficulties and plans for community based tourism (CBT) in their locale. Keywords: community based tourism; remote; planning; tourism; West Papua; bird watching 1. Introduction The word planning may be used in different ways and as a society we accept the term planning t