Sustainable rural tourism can generate long-term benefits for villagers
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18/12/2004
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Financial Express (New Delhi)
Rural India has much to offer beyond agriculture. It has a great potentiality for different growing segments of tourism like eco tourism, adventure tourism, health tourism, farm tourism, endogenous tourism, nature tourism, cultural tourism, religious tourism and the like. Worldwide rural tourism which offers these niche segments is a growing concept. While tourism in general is growing at an annual rate of 4%, nature travel is increasing annual rate of between 10% and 30%, says the World Resources Institute.