Tanuja Tamuli Phukan, Lalit Saikia and Nurujjaman Laskar
Abstract
Rural Tourism is one type of tourism where tourists visit rural areas and experience the nature, culture, tradition, green environment, village life-style, local food etc. Ethnic tourism, nature tourism, ecotourism, farm tourism or agricultural tourism and adventure tourism are the different forms of rural tourism. This paper studies issues related to rural tourism and biodiversity conservation from primary data collected from field survey in Tarazan forest village situated in buffer zone of Nameri National park, Assam. 61% respondents are of the opinion that one cause of man-animal conflicts is rural tourism. More than half of the respondents strongly agreed that tourists are polluting the natural tourism resources and local people are also facing problems from the tourists. Respondents strongly agreed that sustainable rural tourism with more rules and regulations are very much needed for conservation of the biodiversity and pollution reduction in the national park.