nity members from a Mae Klong CBT villages reported that they did not know what to do anymore, they felt useless and when CBT got introduced they felt that they adding value to the community again.
During the last community stay we asked the members why they participate in CBT and one of the most stated answers were that they wanted to make friends. Outside and inside of their community. As aforementioned, CBT is a tool to bring all different kinds of people together and throughout the process of working together, discovering your own and others strengths and weaknesses as well as skills and developing further can create friendships and it is easy to network through CBT.
Often there is an increase in the living standards of the community members. This is one the one hand because some get support from the government when they offer CBT but on the other hand the communities are able to invest in their well-being from the income of CBT. Improved sanitation facilities could be for instance one example to improve the well-being of the community.
Certain cultural activities often lose their value for the locals, as it is normal for them or they think there are not special. When the community realizes that for the tourists it is something special and tourists value the cultural assets of the community, the community builds a sense of pride. They become aware again of their own cultural values and they become proud to share them with the tourists. In the community I have been, came the process of coconut sugar making back through the tourists. The community was always proud of their local wisdom of how to make palm sugar but over the years they did not value it anymore and stopped making it. When they thought of introducing community-based tourism, they reintroduced this local wisdom again and their former pride is back due to the feedback they receive from the tourists.
The exchange of cultures plays a major role in CBT and both, the communities and the tourists benefit from the exchange of their cultures. Not only have the communities developed a sense of pride of their own culture, but the tourists as well.
Negative impacts from CBT
The idea of CBT involves that the income is equally shared within the community, however, this is not always the case therefore, and an unequal income distribution takes place. Especially in larger communities it is a well-known phenomenon as not the whole community is equally attractive for tourists. Community members which live in the less attractive areas are often not involved in CBT. To generate a benefit for the whole community the income is often put in community projects to improve for example the infrastructure. If those community projects are only carried out in the tourism areas the members which live in the other parts of the community do not benefit from it.
Another negative impact can occur when the community members develop different ideas of how CBT should be carried out and how the operational processes have to be, as well, as how the different roles should be divided.
With an increase in tourism there is an increase in infrastructure development which is one the one hand a positive aspect, but on the other hand it causes negative influences on the nature, especially in the construction phase. Another problem of an increasing amount of tourists is the amount of waste generated. Some communities face a waste problem since they welcome tourists, as not all tourists are sensitive towards the issue of waste management and drop their waste everywhere. Another problem is that more waste gets generated and the community needs to be capable to take care of larger amounts of waste. 
Furthermore, in case tourist activities are not controlled, tourists might cause damage to the nature and the wild animals living in the community due to inappropriate behaviour.
If a community introduces CBT, the tourists arrive via they own vehicle or public transport. Thus, there is more traffic taken place in the community and more CO2 emissions are released.
In my point of view the greatest negative impact