Community-Based Tourism Are Tool For Enhancing Tourism With Authentic Hospitality - A Special Reference To South Sikkim

Abstract

This research is maintainly based on investigating potentials of community based tiourism as a tool for the development of sustainable tourism development in South Sikkim of India. The main purpose of this research is to analyse the applicability of CBT in terms of authentic hospitality, evaluating the impacts of environmental fators on tourism growth, exploring the socio-cultural environment and others. The advantages and disadvantages of implementing CBT is also subjected in this research. The secondary qualitative research method was applied in this research. This research has found that CBT has the potential to facilitative the community participation and protect the cultural heritage. It can promote the environmental conservation in this area. The lack stakeholder coordination has been found to be the key challenge of CBT in South Sikkim.