Rural tourism as a boost to rural economy of Assam A comparative case study between Karbi Anglong and East Khasi Hills District

Abstract

Rural tourism has been basically started as an adventure but as the time progress by newlinethe concept of rural tourism has changed and it normally turned itself into a product and the newlinescenario of rural tourism has been converted into a market structure where the natural, newlinecultural and historical products are being sold for which the rural tourism activities have been newlineseen as an opportunity to revive the economy by most of the developing and under developed newlinenations (Cawley, 2009). The effects of rural tourism can be seen in a huge variety of domestic newlineand local economy and specifically in the local societies in the principle form of job newlineretention, job creation, the objective and opportunities for youth in setting up of new business newlineand enterprises, service retention, the opportunity and enhancement of preserving rural newlineculture and heritage and also the opportunity to enrich the skills of traditional art and crafts newlinewith the sales of such product and also the improvement of landscape and environmental newlinesustainability rather than over dependency on forest activities (Irshad, 2010). newline