Community-Based Rural Tourism as a Vehicle for Transformation: A Case Study of North-East India

Abstract

The community-based tourism is well regarded for it not only benefits the local resident of a region but bring attention to the region’s culture and lifestyle to the world. This form of tourism benefits the overall growth of the region through infrastructure development, employment opportunities, business growth and economical increment, especially in rural and less developed areas. In the north-eastern states of India, it becomes prominent to develop community-based tourism in order to bring the rural regions and villages of these states into the mainstream tourism business. The study is the descriptive study of three major north-eastern Indian states i.e. Nagaland, Assam and Meghalaya which are famous for their natural habitat and need to be promoted and recognised through community-based rural tourism.