Building skills, enterprises and community participation so that tourism creates sustainable and locally anchored livelihoods across Uttarakhand.
In recent years, tourism has emerged as one of the key drivers of Uttarakhand's economy, creating significant opportunities for employment, enterprise and local livelihoods.
However, many people in the hill regions have not been able to fully benefit from the expanding tourism economy due to limited access to skills, training, market linkages and entrepreneurial opportunities.
SPD works to place local communities at the centre of tourism-led development, helping people build the knowledge, skills, confidence and market orientation required to participate meaningfully in the tourism sector.
SPD's tourism interventions focus on building local capacity and creating opportunities for communities to participate across the tourism value chain.
Building tourism-linked skills and strengthening the capabilities of local people to participate in tourism-related opportunities.
Supporting tourism-linked enterprises and entrepreneurial opportunities for communities in hill destinations.
Encouraging local communities to become active stakeholders in tourism-led development.
Improving market orientation and access to opportunities within the tourism economy.
Creating livelihood opportunities connected with the tourism value chain.
Ensuring tourism benefits reach the communities living in and around tourist destinations.
SPD recognized the need to ensure that communities living in and around tourist destinations are able to participate meaningfully in the growing tourism economy.
Through capacity building, tourism-linked skills, enterprise development and community participation, the programme sought to enable local people to take greater ownership of tourism opportunities.
SPD's approach seeks to connect local people with the knowledge, skills and opportunities needed to participate in tourism-related economic activities.
Strengthening knowledge, skills and confidence among local communities.
Encouraging local entrepreneurship and tourism-linked business opportunities.
Helping communities understand and participate in the tourism market.
Placing communities at the centre of tourism-led development.
SPD, in its capacity as the State Level Programme NGO for Community Participation, Livelihood Promotion and Capacity Building under IDIPT, Uttarakhand, worked closely with communities located in and around 40 popular and emerging tourist destinations across the state.
The initiative focused on building the capacities of local people, developing tourism-linked skills and enterprises, promoting community participation and creating sustainable livelihood opportunities connected with the tourism value chain.
The programme sought to ensure that local communities could acquire the knowledge, skills, confidence and market orientation required to participate meaningfully in the tourism sector.
Uttarakhand's diverse mountain landscapes provide opportunities for locally anchored tourism and sustainable livelihood development.
Strengthening local knowledge, skills and capacity for tourism participation.
Promoting tourism-linked enterprise and entrepreneurial opportunities.
Enabling local people to become active stakeholders in tourism development.
Connecting communities with sustainable opportunities within the tourism value chain.
Working towards inclusive, sustainable and locally anchored tourism development in Uttarakhand.