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Tourism is the tool of economic growth because tourism strategies supports economic growth, tourism can bring many economic and social benefits, particularly in developing countries, but it requires awareness from the local community to accept any change for development. This study aims to evaluate community awareness towards tourism impacts in Ibb province. For achieving the research objectives the data were collected through a questionnaire distributed among the local community in Ibb province 100 questionnaires were distributed. The findings of this study shows that the attitude of local community in Ibb province towards tourism development is positive, most of the answers were positive which means they are aware tourism benefits that means the local community understands the value of tourism as developing factor. There are minority who are having negative attitude towards tourism because of the low knowledge about tourism and its importance to develop any area.

KEY WORDS: Community; Attitude; Tourism; Impacts; Development; Yemen

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