Tourism in North East

Tourism is the world’s largest industry and it represents the fastest growing segment of any business. The concept of tourism is new with tremendous potentiality for sustainable developments of nature-based tourist resources including beautiful forest and wildlife. North East India is well blessed by Nature and it lies at the centre of one of the world’s richest bio-geographic areas. It is a treasure chest for various economic resources. So, to develop tourism in North East India means, to boost the economy of the region. Boosting the economy of the region through tourism can raise the standard of living, develop the region in infrastructures, increase per capita income and lighten excessive independence on agriculture. But transportation bottleneck poses a grave hindrance to the development of the region.​This paper is an attempt to highlight the problems, prospects, potentiality of the region, infrastructure and the North East region as a whole and the steps that can be taken to help in progressing and prospering the industry and economy.