Guidelines for rural development by enhancing community based sustainable tourism in Sri Lanka

Abstract

The rural communities are social system which surface with notable amount of inconvenience on economic, social life due to the dynamic world. They should adopt the transformation to survive prosperously and peacefully. Community based Sustainable Tourism (CBST) is a great opportunity to secure their livelihoods through the improved economic, social and environmental aspects. This paper emphases to walk around the local potential related to Community Based Sustainable Tourism in Rural Development to develop the community in Sri Lanka Rural areas. The rural community plays an important role to create awareness about the potential of sustainable tourism to Practice the integrated approach of Community based Sustainable Tourism (CBST) which have domain sustainability and community wellbeing in Sri Lanka. This active role rural community will enhance the tourism industry growth with conservation of the resource. The investigation of the influencing factors of rural development is more vital Therefore this article is to draw attention to build rationale strategies of Community based Sustainable Tourism to enhance rural development in Sri Lanka. A comprehensive literature survey undertaken to analyse the gaps and current knowledge. This paper conclude by proposing different kind of strategies in different criteria. Such as, include sustainable livelihoods framework (SLF) in tourism strategic planning; Promote tourism awareness and education on the employment side will path for development of the country consider the income distribution and capital formation in the community investment. Finally government should ensure that every level of the community must involve in the tourism. It must be decentralized.