Local Community Participation in Meaningful Tourism

Abstract

Background of The study: Tourism is a service-based industry and is a major source of income among people who are involved in tourism business. Tourism sector works with the involvement of local community to provide services to the tourist. Experimental Approach: This paper discusses the participation of the local community for sustainable economy & prosperity of Uttarakhand state, the typology of community participation is discussed with different variation of community-based tourism and the challenges faced by the locals who are engaged in tourism business.Key results: The paper's main focus is to study the participation of local community especially in below poverty level in tourism with selected areas of Uttarakhand and to know about impact of the growth on tourism in local community, to know about the product that local people are selling and the most common issue of community participation in the selected area, the area which locals get a chance to work on and the role of government and private agencies and how local community react on it.