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Abstract
The fact is that in the last decade India has seen a very significant growth in the tourism and hospitality sector. Likewise Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) related articles have been written and published in the recent years on a large scale. This paper explores how CSR has developed within the extant literature. This emerging research on CSR in the context of tourism and hospitality is pushing past the boundaries of early approaches to corporate sustainability by providing empirical evidence is to support the importance of integrating a range of stakeholder perspectives and needs throughout the planning, implementation, and evaluation of CSR initiatives. Moreover, we observe that while there is ample research on certain stakeholder groups such as management, employees, shareholders, and consumers, there is less emphasis on the role of communities and ecosystems as stakeholders and very little related to suppliers, NGOs, and government. Although tourism and hospitality firms may not be subject to the same pressures as other industries, there remain important opportunities to both document and engage these external stakeholders in the journey towards sustainability for a long time in the country.