Community participation has been gradually regarded as an indispensable strategy to realise the sustainable tourism development in cultural heritage destinations. However， in developing countries and regions， community participation is very pessimistic in practice， although its importance has been stressed in academia since the 1980s. Several factors such as lack of information， inappropriate approaches， inadequate opportunity for public involvement and others have been identified as causes for the problem. Therefore， the publication of this book comes at the right moment to discuss on the opportunity and limitation of community participation in cultural heritage tourism especially for the developing countries and regions. This book provides in depth discussions on the approaches of community participation in cultural heritage tourism， and elaborates in detail specific models for community participation in tourism development.
　　The author of this book， Dr. Xing Huibin was my ex-PhD student at the School of Housing， Building and Planning， Universiti Sains Malaysia. He is a very dedicated student and researcher， and at the same time he is also a prolific academic author. This book is based on his PhD research carried out at Lijiang Old Town of China， one ofthe most representative cultural heritage destinations in China. This book focuses on four aspects： 1） community participation in cultural heritage tourism， 2） participation approaches， degrees and conditions; 3） barriers in the participation process; 4） assessment models to evaluate community participation in tourism.
　　In such essence， this book can offer an excellence reference for tourism scholars and practitioners from the perspective of community participation in cultural heritage tourism in Lijiang Old Town and other cultural heritage destinations in developing countries and regions.