A Community Response to Tourism, Focusing on the Home-stay Program in K Village in Nainital, Uttarakhand, India <Research Note>
Journal of Urban and Regional Studies on Contemporary India Volume 4 Issue 2
Page 55-62
published_at 2018-03
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| Title ( eng ) |
A Community Response to Tourism, Focusing on the Home-stay Program in K Village in Nainital, Uttarakhand, India <Research Note>
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| Creator |
Imran Md Masood
Nguyen Ngoc Thi Bich
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| Source Title |
Journal of Urban and Regional Studies on Contemporary India
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| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Start Page | 55 |
| End Page | 62 |
| Abstract |
The tourism industry in India has grown enormously and is becoming a major source of economic growth in India. This paper focuses on studying the possibilities of home-stay programs and the willingness of the residents in Uttarakhand on such programs. Considering the tourism perspective of India, home-stay programs are rather unusual. Only Munsiyari and Sarmoli in the Johar Valley, and the Ladakh Autonomous Region in Jammu and Kashmir are the two examples. This research is a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches through household survey, an average treatment effect, community economic development analysis, field observations, interpretative analysis, and ethnographic understanding of K village, Nainital District, Uttarakhand. The results show that the tourism industry has not brought economic benefits for the households involved in the industry; however, this could be owing to the community not being involved in tourism development. In addition, most of the villagers considered that the home-stay program could create opportunities for jobs and improve the income of the local community. In the study area, we found private entrepreneurship, but the home-stay program has not yet been developed. This research paper expects to assist making decisions to initiate an extensive home-stay program under the “Endogenous Tourism” program with some re-evaluations of not only the previously mentioned village of Uttarakhand, but also other remote locations in India, considering the colorful and cultural-rituals of rural living in India.
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| Keywords |
rural development
community base tourism
home-stay
rural study
India
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| Descriptions |
Special Issue
“Developmental Challenges in Rural India: A Village Level Examination in Himalayan Mountains” |
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Transportation services [ 680 ]
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| Language |
eng
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| Resource Type | departmental bulletin paper |
| Publisher |
The Center for Contemporary India Studies, Hiroshima University
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| Date of Issued | 2018-03 |
| Rights |
(c) 2018 The Center for Contemporary India Studies, Hiroshima University
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| Publish Type | Version of Record |
| Access Rights | open access |
| Source Identifier |
[ISSN] 2188-5222
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