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Community
We pride ourselves in providing alternative earning sources to the local community in the places where the homes are located. The homestays’ owners employ local people to help them run their homestays thus creating employment for the local population. In case of rural homes, the earnings from the homestay business provide a major source of income for the home owners. The hosts provide guidance to the guests for the places, to do sightseeing and become involved in activities through the local community, ensuring money generated from tourism reaches those at a grass root level.
Socially responsible tourism is our founding principle and this is reflected in the following benefits of a homestay holiday. Guests staying at a homestay provide local employment, as domestic help to support the running of the homestays is recruited locally. As many homestays are located in the countryside additional employment is created.
Environment
All homes affiliated with us follow environment friendly practices which do not disturb the ecological balance and most of the Homestays follow the below mentioned practice:
The waste segregation is according to the municipality norms which help in proper disposal. Most of the homestays employ water conservation and rain water harvesting. A lot of homestays affiliated with us use solar energy to heat water etc. thus conserving electricity. The homestays prepare food mostly from their own plantations or gardens which are organic and there are no harmful chemicals used in growing these which help prevent harmful chemicals being released in the atmosphere.
We help in training the affiliated homestay owners in running of a homestay. Using the company’s vast experience in the hospitality industry we provide training to the homestay owners and their staff for the homestays affiliated with us. We are affiliated with family homes where the host family is staying and unlike hotels there is no construction of buildings required for providing the accommodation to the guests thus preventing pollution.
In case of rural homestays at places like Spiti the earnings from homestays get deposited in a communal fund which is used for compensating the loss of animal stock caused by endangered species like snow leopards, thereby avoiding the community people from hunting animals from such species.
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