Enjoy! Explore! Share! Sustain!

-Parth Joshi As tourism evolved globally from a business model into a tool for ensuring uniform diffusion of the socio-economic benefits, as well as a means of conservation with respect to biodiversity (a topic now increasingly coming under the scanner, but more due to mismanagement rather than a flaw in the concept), niches like ecotourism, responsible tourism, sustainable tourism started emerging, bound together by a common idea but the approach differing in the sect of the natural and built environment they sort to address. Community based tourism models, with their primary focus being the sustenance of the local community in harmony with the surrounding environment to ensure sustainability, blend in naturally.