Homestay Tourism Case Study

Homestay provides pure travel experience and is directly linked to the local community. Homestay program has been able to maintain the social, environmental and economic aspects of sustainability that enhances rural community development. It is the social bonding among the local community people with determined minds, skills, knowledge and hardworking hands that has led to the successful implementation of the homestay program in rural communities, hence, uplifting the rural economy of the local people.
The homestay regulation has emphasized to encourage the micro-economic sector in the rural areas; preserve the ecological sustainability; generate self-employment and economic growth in the rural communities. Similarly, it has addressed to build up the quality life of indigenous people of the village area and make capable to access the benefit through the tourism industry, to increase the use of natural and human resources of the rural areas for rural development; to expose the rural culture and nature to the outside world; to protect environmental
By living with host families, students can observe and participate in a wide range of everyday practices while highly upgrading their language proficiency and intercultural awareness. This has helped students live in a homely environment while they are far away from their homeland. However, the major challenge of the homestay tourism is its sustainability. Homestay programme has been facing generation gap problem. Most of the homestays so far have been carried out either by the women’s groups or the old generation while young generation are either migrating to cities or foreign lands for better education and employment. Therefore, it has created a space of the young generation to take up responsibility of the tourism management in their places. If the trend continues, the continuity of homestay programmes cannot be