The second edition of Northeast India’s Responsible Tourism Conclave set the wheels in motion for conscious travel throughout the northeastern Himalayan region. From community-based zero-waste, and agri-tourism to nature-linked conservation models, fellows from the last two editions presented their unique and hyper-local action plans to build their responsible tourism business models at the conclave.
The fellowship includes training sessions and exposure trips under the guidance of livelihood and responsible tourism experts. The fellows are supported to build on carefully chosen project sites or Responsible Tourism destinations throughout the fellowship. There were 16 fellows from six states, chosen to work on four project sites last year. “Clean and Cool Chullyu”, “Gorgeous Gobuk” and “Wild and Pure Labukore” were some of the most remote landscapes chosen as RT sites in Arunachal Pradesh last year.
The second batch, which commenced in September 2023 trained 14…
