Local Attitudes Toward Tourism in Pemba, Zanzibar from Focus Groups and Interviews

Zanzibar's Pemba island community attitudes toward tourism, collected by a community organization using citizen science. The dataset likely contains qualitative data from focus group discussions and individual interviews, examining perceived costs and benefits. It was authored by Jaffar Abubakar Jaffar and last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing perceived costs of tourism based on descriptions of lost access to fishing grounds, beaches, and forests.
• Studying perceived benefits of tourism based on mentions of employment opportunities and hotel development projects.
• Comparing general versus local perceptions of tourism based on the described analytical leverage.
• Examining temporal shifts in attitudes based on the comparison with data from 18 years prior.

Strengths

• Data is licensed under CC-BY-4.0, allowing for broad reuse and sharing.
• The description provides specific geographic context (Pemba, Zanzibar) and methodological details (citizen science, focus groups, interviews).
• The dataset includes a temporal comparison point, referencing attitudes from 18 years ago.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 679.7 KB PDF; the underlying structured data (e.g., interview transcripts, coded responses) is not directly accessible.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the PDF report.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative analysis.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Citizen science involving focus group discussions and individual interviews.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-08 05:55:55; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Pemba, Zanzibar, Western Indian Ocean