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Calling for Views/Ideas on 'Rural India - How it can leverage tourism'

Start Date :
Sep 27, 2020
Last Date :
Oct 31, 2020
23:45 PM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
Every year 27th September is celebrated as World Tourism Day. This year the theme of World Tourism Day is Tourism and Rural Development. Tourism helps rural communities hold onto ...
Educate local youth in Hospitality management, Hygiene and sanitation. Identify more points on same tourist spot with different way to approach from a common point. Involve local women in the activity so that female guests feel more secured. Try to serve local dishes by explaining its ingredient and nutritional value. Sale all arts and crafts through shops with a common price at all spots. Digitalization of the facility for overnight stay with local community in their home on cost sharing.
create tourist regions out of each rural area by combining multiple villages.
1. Provide assistance for development of eco-stays in the region
2. create marketing campaigns around the unique stories associated with the area , highlight its importance in history and it's contribution today
3. add high quality prepaid transportation services in the rural tourist regions.
4. invite influencers , bloggers , international travellers to visit the area and promote tourism therein
Promoting Tourism in Rural Area
1. Development of rural area.
2. Development of roads.
3. Development of water facility.
4. Development of electricity.
5. Development of agriculture.
6. Cleanliness of rural area.
7. Attraction of clay products.
8. Attraction of handloom products.
9. Attraction of our historical places and monuments in rural area.
10. Vehicle facilities in rural area.
One of the major advantages of promoting tourism in the rural areasis the creation of employment opportunities especially for those who do not have agricultural land to meet their economic needs. As tourism requires a multitude of services, local community members can engage themselves in variety of economic activity like accommodation, food and beverages, local guides, artisans etc
Reduces Urban Drift –One of the challenge most of the countries are facing is the movement of rural people to urban areas. With the promotion of rural tourism, urban drift reduces as people get employment opportunities in their own region. Further with the emergence of tourism, infrastructural development also takes place encouraging people to stay in their own areas rather than migrating to the urban centres
Cultural Exchange –Rural tourism promotes cultural exchange as local communities share their culture and traditions with thetourists and in the process also learn about their cultures.
(c)Developing New Skills–The entire tourism and hospitalityindustry requires specific skill sets to cater to the requirement of both international and national tourists. The local community members start learning new skill sets once the tourists start flowing into the rural areas. For example, rural community in Dharamkot (HP) have learned a variety of international cuisine, languages once international tourists started visiting this place.
Preservation of local traditions–As tourists visit rural areas to experience authentic rural settings, rural tourism provides economic incentives to preserve local customs and traditions. With increased urbanization and globalization, people in rural areas are adopting to global products and services leaving behind the local traditions. Rural tourism encourages local communities to revive and preserve their traditions, crafts, traditional festivals, a
One of the major advantages of promoting tourism in the rural areasis the creation of employment opportunities especially for those who do not have agricultural land to meet their economic needs. As tourism requires a multitude of services, local community members can engage themselves in variety of economic activity like accommodation, food and beverages, local guides, artisans etc
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