Rural Tourism: The Changing Paradigm

Abstract

India is trudging back to its villages. In the past five year, the policy-backed trend to push workers from low productive agriculture to seek better employment opportunities in the urban centres stands reversed. An indication to the swing in reverse migration first came at the time Covid-19 pandemic when millions of urban poor traversed long distances, mostly on foot, in what was seen as the largest movement of people since the days of the partition. The unprecedented inter- State and intra-State migration was believed to be temporary but defying the expectations of the workforce returning back to the cities once the pandemic was over, a majority of the migrants preferred to stay back.