2024 |
Volume 17 |
Issue Issue 4
Community-Based Tourism Potential and Its Impact on Limbu Community, India
1.
Bijoy Das
– Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University, West Bengal, India.
2.
Dwipen Barman
– Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University, West Bengal, India.
3.
Piyal Basu Roy
– Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University, West Bengal, India.
4.
Mallik Akram Hossain
– Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University, West Bengal, India.
Received
11-Dec-2024
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Accepted
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Published
11-Dec-2024
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Abstract
An attempt has been made here to explore the CBT potential and its possible impacts on the Limbu community at Looksan village, India. Non-participant observation and interview have been applied to conduct the study. Data have been collected through a structured schedule from 131 Limbu people based on purposive sampling. Weightages to different variables under each of the six domains of tourism potential have been put by calculating simple mean scores based on five point likert scale. Principal Component Analysis and Pearson Correlation Coefficient have been used to identify major tourism impacts and relationship between CBT and tourism impacts respectively. The results show that cultural attraction (4.22) and accommodation (1.37) have received highest and lowest weightages. Correlation result indicates positive correlation between CBT and economic, cultural, social and environmental impact. Therefore, the study proposes the development of CBT to make the area socio-economically developed and environmentally sustainable.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21863/ijhts/2024.17.4.008
Keywords CBT, Tourism Potential, Limbu, Economic, Environmental
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