Community-Based Rural Tourism Development: A Conceptual Framework for Bangladesh

Abstract

The concept of community-based rural tourism (CBRT) can play a crucial role to reanimate the conventional thoughts and views on tourism along with may create a big transition to go for the new dimension in the sustainable development of the rural community people. Community-based rural tourism (CBRT) has been pushed as one of the major strategic ways to alleviate poverty and might highlight the sustainability of marginalized regions and communities. It has enlarged drastically in the
twenty first century with a view to ensuring the community participation in the rural tourism development decision making process. It is one of the most growing and promising tourism sectors in Bangladesh and it may add value to our economy, society and environment. It also have a great impact on our GDP and creation of employment opportunities for those people who
are directly and indirectly involved within its development process. The main objective of this study is to measure the potentiality of the community-based rural tourism (CBRT) development in Bangladesh as well as to design a conceptual framework for CBRT development through rural community participation and also provide some suggestions to overcome the obstacles to developing CBRT. The analysis, implications and recommendations of this study would be the logical steps to deploy the rural community people of Bangladesh in the development process of tourism activities within their local areas.