The Silver Award winner for Sustainable Leadership: Homestays - Balari Homestay.
Even after 15 years, the Balari Homestay, an intergenerational homestay, has kept the spirit of a cosy, family-run homestay intact. The founder has been a pioneer of tourism in Mawphlang and actively promotes and preserves the local storytelling culture.
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Even after 15 years, the Balari Homestay, an intergenerational homestay, has kept the spirit of a cosy, family-run homestay intact. The founder has been a pioneer of tourism in Mawphlang and actively promotes and preserves the local storytelling culture.
#Meghalaya #IRTSA #IndianResponsibleTourismStateAwards #MagnificentMeghalaya #SustainableTourism #ResponsibleTourismIndia #SustainableTourismindia #ResponsibleTourism #CelebratingPeople #CelebratingIndia
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 Mawphlang Village is so special by the presence
00:05 of Mawphlang Sacred Grove.
00:06 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:09 I'm happy to tell you that we have been starting the tourism
00:13 here as a tour guide.
00:14 And now we are also having the homestay
00:16 that is a part of the Khasi Hills Community Red Cross
00:18 project, where we are doing the conservation of our forest
00:21 through community action.
00:22 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:25 This is one of our bedrooms.
00:26 So we make it simple and minimal.
00:29 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:30 We have started the Red Cross project in 2011,
00:32 where there are 10 Hima and about 86 villages participating
00:36 in reducing emission from deforestation
00:38 and forest degradation.
00:40 As you see here, you see this is Sikada.
00:42 You see that we call it Nyam Kungu Wing in Khasi.
00:46 Through this, we also involved this ecotourism,
00:49 where the funds is being routed through the local working
00:51 community to the community people.
00:53 So when we say a project is a community-based,
00:55 we mean to say that the community is taking
00:57 the responsibility to conserve the forest in a better way.
00:59 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:03 [Music]