Home stay tourism is an emerging tourism concept evolved lately in the tourism world. India can
be a model homestay for its multi-faceted potentialities. Natural gifts, man-made heritages ethnocultural
richness, innocent social settings, pleasant hospitality and many more unexplored
treasures that are dreams for experts of tourism. Homestay tourism cannot prosper sans the
convergence of needs of the affluent and the needy based on the premise of demand driven
mechanism because it is a need base concept. India can harness the boon of tourist potentiality
rampant at the rural areas where government has pro-poor programs. This form of tourism is
based on three aspects namely service, facility and attraction. India has a strong position only in
attraction whereas it is lacking in facility and services. Sustainable tourism takes place if home
grown resources and natural settings are effectively served to the tourism as well as also
preserved. Promotion of tourism thus is highly dependent upon the active participation of the
private sector and communities where the role of government becomes that of a facilitator