IMPACT OF HEALTHCARE UTILITIES AND LAW & ORDER CONDITIONS ON TOURISM: A STUDY ON COMMUNITY-BASED TOURISM IN NORTH EAST INDIA

Abstract

Tourists and tour operators would seldom compromise on the safety conditions, cleanliness, hygiene practices (Kant, 2008) and basic healthcare infrastructure of a tourism destination. The economic benefits and cosmopolitan thought process arising from practices of community-based tourism process may discourage simmering tensions arising out of ideological differences and conflicting ethnicity in a destination. Instead of an exclusive remark that tour operators would seldom compromise on safety and hygiene aspects of a destination in North East India, this paper shall provide empirical findings at granular level. The author(s) debate on issues of safety, law & order conditions and disaster management preparedness of a typical village practicing community based tourism. There is an attempt on relating positive impacts of development indexes with community based initiatives of North East India.