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Abstract
The significant contribution of tourism industry to the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employment has simply indicated how tourism industry works as the most powerful engine for economic development particularly in the developing countries where nations experience a rapid growth in the number of international tourists and tempting contribution of those arrivals to GDP, socio- economic development, and poverty reduction. Therefore, it wouldn‘t be surprising if many less developed countries have launched tourism projects in order to improve local communities‘ livelihoods most specifically in the remote rural areas. Home stay tourism is an emerging tourism concept evolved lately in the tourism world. India can be a model homestay for its multi-faceted potentialities. Natural gifts, man-made heritages ethno-cultural richness, innocent social settings, pleasant hospitality and many more unexplored treasures that are dreams for experts of tourism.