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Soity Banerjee, Project Editor, Outlook Responsible Tourism Initiative, addresses the audience and speaks about the three pillars of responsible tourism at the Outlook Responsible Tourism Future Forum Workshop in partnership with the Department of Tourism, Meghalaya, in the charming town of Tura.

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00:00 These three pillars covered. I know that we say it very, it sounds very academic.
00:07 Aisa lag raha hai school mein teen pillars bata rahe hai. But these are really critical.
00:12 Of course, you are in a biodiverse place where your environment is absolutely critical to who you are as a people.
00:23 So we can't let, we can't allow that to be harmed. That's number one.
00:28 Number two is social and cultural. You have a sense of pride as a community that I don't see in many cities in India.
00:38 People don't have it. They have forgotten their own roots.
00:41 They don't have a connection to their language, to their music, to their instruments.
00:46 And that's not the case in Dura. You have a big heart.
00:50 Yesterday wherever we went, we saw something that was of this land, that belonged to the people of this land.
00:58 So that needs to be protected and that is your wealth.
01:01 That is what, it's not that tourism is bad. This is what will bring you tourists.
01:06 If I'm coming from Delhi, I don't want to see another Delhi in Dura.
01:11 Mujhe nahi dekhna hai. Mujhe Bangalore nahi dekhna hai.
01:13 Dura mein Dura dekhna hai. Main agar Sasadgrih jaune, Sasadgrih dekhna hai.
01:18 Mujhe waha pe Delhi nahi dekhna hai. Mujhe waha pe Palak Paneer nahi chahiye.
01:22 That's sort of the point I was trying to make.
01:24 And people, today people are open to trying new things.
01:27 You must at least nudge them to do that.
01:31 And of course the economic benefits.
01:34 Agar if local stakeholders are not getting benefits, if they are not taking away a decent day's work, you know, wage,
01:46 then it will not work.
01:48 This is your place. You need to share the benefits. You need to get the benefits.
01:53 And that's, you know, that, that, I know that there will be many experts to be able to tell you how to make that happen.
01:58 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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