Abstract:
The rural communities are social system which surface with notable amount of inconvenience on economic,
social life due to the dynamic world. They should adopt the transformation to survive prosperously and
peacefully. Community based Sustainable Tourism (CBST) is a great opportunity to secure their livelihoods
through the improved economic, social and environmental aspects. This paper emphases to walk around the
local potential related to Community Based Sustainable Tourism in Rural Development to develop the
community in Sri Lanka Rural areas. The rural community plays an important role to create awareness about
the potential of sustainable tourism to Practice the integrated approach of Community based Sustainable
Tourism (CBST) which have domain sustainability and community wellbeing in Sri Lanka. This active role
rural community will enhance the tourism industry growth with conservation of the resource. The
investigation of the influencing factors of rural development is more vital Therefore this article is to draw
attention to build rationale strategies of Community based Sustainable Tourism to enhance rural
development in Sri Lanka. A comprehensive literature survey undertaken to analyse the gaps and current
knowledge. This paper conclude by proposing different kind of strategies in different criteria. Such as,
include sustainable livelihoods framework (SLF) in tourism strategic planning; Promote tourism awareness
and education on the employment side will path for development of the country consider the income
distribution and capital formation in the community investment. Finally government should ensure that
every level of the community must involve in the tourism. It must be decentralized.
