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Question: Rural Tourism Issues and Challenges

Answer: The major issues and challenges of rural tourism need to preserve the environment an natural resources, the need of education, proper understanding for both tourists and local people, and the need to generate a democratic movement which helps people at all levels to participate in tourism development.

Some important issues and challenges of rural tourism are following as:

- Economic Leakages.
- Local price inflation.
- Distort local employment structure.
- Seasonal patterns of demands.
- Manufacture or distort local ‘culture’ for commodification and staged authenticity.
- Destroy indigenous culture.
- Natural habitat destruction of rural wildlife.
- Littering, emission and other forms of pollution.
- Congestion.

The cooperative system in rural tourism can be an effective approach in bringing positive impact in rural areas. Local people can monitor and control the negative impacts of rural tourism on their own society, if they have an equal stake and authority in management and development.

(Source: Tourism Notes - Educational Portal , 11 Oct 2021)

Source Link: https://tourismnotes.com/rural-tourism/