Ahan

The advent of community based tourism can be said to have started with the early mountaineers and explorers (who were highly empathetic towards their porters and helping staff, their intrinsic relationship being affected by the extrinsic adverse environments into which they often treaded). While their role was limited to being loyal customers, or a small charity from time to time in money or kind, the focus on community based tourism was the seed behind the concept of sustainable tourism, as anything that had to be sustained needed to enrich the very source which it harnessed. Responsible tourism as a concept gained popularity as tourism started getting its due as one of the major factors affecting the socio-economic climate of a region, not discounting the environmental impacts. It began to be considered as something more than leisure, something which could impart value and preserve through cross-cultural interactions. The models were successfully tried out in tribal Africa Centra...