Barriers to Local Community Participation in Tourism Development: Evidence from Cham Cham Village, East Jaintia Hills District, Meghalaya, India

Local communities must be involved, particularly in developing and isolated tourism Destinations to promote the growth of tourism. Even if tourism development has advantages, community cooperation still faces challenges in remote villages such as Cham Cham village in the eastern Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya, India. This aims to identify problems that challenge local communities from taking part in the development of tourism and to investigate how these issues affect the community's perception of its involvement in the tourism sector. Data from both primary and secondary sources are gathered as evidence. Barriers to social. Barriers to participation identified in this study include lack of knowledge and awareness, low education and jobs, poor lifestyle, hectic daily schedule, fear of losing cultural value, lack of confidence, lack of skill and training, perception of a negative impact, and seasonality hindrance. Potential negative effects and repercussions are undesirable. The research makes several recommendations, such as the need to create a plan to encourage local involvement, increase the amount of community involvement that is promoted, improves community collaboration across important government departments, and increase the amount of local education and training programs.