Past, Present, and Future of Community-Based Tourism

Abstract

Services associated with community based or homestay tourism are revolutionizing the tourism industry and maneuvers the strategy adopted by the tourism operators. This chapter aims to explore the transformation in services offered by the homestay tourism sector which disrupts the market for tourism. The purpose of this chapter is to offer prognostications of the future directions. This chapter is based on systematic research of academic and secondary sources. It is fundamental that close understanding of how family businesses and home stay tourism work concurrently to provide value to destinations is maintained. The chapter synthesizes developments in services attached to home stay tourism and proposes a future perspective by taking incremental stock take of current understanding of family businesses in home stay tourism.